Download or read book Inland Navigation System Planning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began an investigation of the benefits and costs of extending several locks on the lower portion of the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway (UMR-IWW) in order to relieve increasing waterway congestion, particularly for grain moving to New Orleans for export. With passage of the Flood Control Act of 1936, Congress required that the Corps conduct a benefit-cost analysis as part of its water resources project planning; Congress will fund water resources projects only if a project's benefits exceed its costs. As economic analysis generally, and benefit-cost analysis in particular, has become more sophisticated, and as environmental and social considerations and analysis have become more important, Corps planning studies have grown in size and complexity. The difficulty in commensurating market and nonmarket costs and benefits also presents the Corps with a significant challenge. The Corps' analysis of the UMR-IWW has extended over a decade, has cost roughly $50 million, and has involved consultations with other federal agencies, state conservation agencies, and local citizens. The analysis has included many consultants and has produced dozens of reports. In February 2000, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) requested that the National Academies review the Corps' final feasibility report. After discussions and negotiations with DOD, in April 2000 the National Academies launched this review and appointed an expert committee to carry it out.
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Download or read book Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States Pennsylvania 1790 1904 written by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report Upon the Improvement of the Ohio Monongahela and Wabash Rivers written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ohio River Navigation Charts written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover: The Beginnings of the Great Expedition ..., the Eastern Legacy, From Trail Blazing to Walking on the Moon. Lists buoys, dams, and other known navigational features along the route the Lewis and Clark Expedition took in 1803.
Download or read book Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States written by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors from August 11 1790 to June 29 1938 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors from August 11 1790 to March 4 1913 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Water Resources Challenges Facing the U S Army Corps of Engineers written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is responsible for construction, operations, and maintenance of much of the nation's water resources infrastructure. This infrastructure includes flood control levees, multi-purpose dams, locks, navigation channels, port and harbor facilities, and beach protection infrastructure. The Corps of Engineers also regulates the dredging and filling of wetlands subject to federal jurisdictions. Along with its programs for flood damage reduction and support of commercial navigation, ecosystem restoration was added as a primary Corps mission area in 1996. The National Research Council (NRC) Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning was convened by the NRC at the request of the Corps of Engineers to provide independent advice to the Corps on an array of strategic and planning issues. National Water Resources Challenges Facing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers surveys the key water resources challenges facing the Corps, the limits of what might be expected today from the Corps, and future prospects for the agency. This report presents several findings, but no recommendations, to the Corps of Engineers based on initial investigations and discussions with Corps leadership. National Water Resources Challenges Facing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can serve as a foundational resource for the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Congress, federal agencies, and Corps project co-sponsors, among others.
Download or read book Peckuwe 1780 written by John F. Winkler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, and other frontiersmen guided an army of 970 Kentuckians into what is now Ohio to attack the principal Native American bases from which the raids emanated. This superbly illustrated book traces Colonel George Rogers Clark's lightning expedition to destroy Chalawgatha and Peckuwe, and describes how on August 8, 1780, his Kentuckians clashed with an army of 450 Native Americans, under Black Hoof, Buckongahelas, and Girty, at the battle of Peckuwe. It would be the largest Revolutionary War battle on the Ohio River frontier.
Download or read book Report of Examination of Ohio River with a View to Obtaining Channel Depths of 6 and 9 Feet Respectively written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
