Inland Navigation System Planning The Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Summary and Recommendations
Pages 86-87
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Congestion management could improve waterway traffic management almost immediately, while reducing congestion by extending locks on the UMR-TWW would take a decade or more. Furthermore, nonstructural alternatives provide an excellent opportunity for the Corps to simultaneously improve waterway traffic flow and environmental resources, applying the Corps' experience in analytical methods and water resources management.
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The draft feasibility study must better integrate environmental and social considerations into the ultimate decision of whether the locks are to be extended. Within the environmental assessments, an improved assessment study of the system-wide and cumulative effects of the existing navigation system on river ecology is needed.
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