9-Foot Navigation Channel Project; Channel Maintenance Management Plan, Upper Mississippi River, Head of Navigation to Guttenberg, Iowa, Volume 2

Download or read book 9-Foot Navigation Channel Project; Channel Maintenance Management Plan, Upper Mississippi River, Head of Navigation to Guttenberg, Iowa, Volume 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this Environmental Impact Statement is to analyze the environmental impacts of actions proposed in the Channel Maintenance Management Plan (CMMP) for maintaining a 9-foot navigation channel, along with commercial and small-boat harbors, on the Upper Mississippi River between Guttenberg, Iowa and the head of navigation at Minneapolis, Minnesota. The proposed actions analyzed in this document include dredging; dredged material placement; recreational beach maintenance and development; repair, construction, modification, and/or removal of channel structures; clearing and snagging operations; and future site planning for dredged material placement. Site specific social and economic effects of the CMMP range from slightly negative effects to significantly positive effects.