Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study Second Report (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Many tows on the river today are roughly 1000 feet long, which requires barges to be decoupled in order to pass through the locks, then be subsequently recoupled as they continue transiting the system. These "double lockages" require additional time for tows to pass through UMR-IWW locks, and congestion at several locks on the lower portion of the Upper Mississippi River has prompted claims that double lockages are a key contributor to chronic delays.
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12 Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured UMR-IWW Feasibility Study FIGURE 1-1 Locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway System.
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This committee's third report will reflect upon several key river management issues on the UMR-IWW and will have a different statement of task. The statement of task for this second report from the Phase II committee is: The committee will review the Corps' Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway System Navigation Fea sibility Study.
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These topics include the Corps' decision to replace the ESSENCE model with its Tow Cost Model; the appropriateness of the scenario-based forecasts of barge demand by commodity and how these varied sce narios will be incorporated into the subsequent analyses; how the restructured plan should incorporate the nonstruc tural alternatives (pricing, scheduling, etc.) into the feasibility analysis; the potential effectiveness of the proposed envi ronmental restoration, its costs, and how the cost should be apportioned among the involved parties (federal, state, local, and private)
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The meetings provided essential information about the feasibility study, its various inputs, and concerns of interest groups on all sides of the issue. In addition to meeting with these various groups at these three meetings, the committee also met in closed sessions in order to discuss guest speaker presentations and continue working on this report.
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