Knowledge Core Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/11681/371352024-03-29T06:05:04Z2024-03-29T06:05:04ZFinal Environmental Assessment : Construction of New Laboratory Facilities for the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, North CarolinaUnited States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington Districthttps://hdl.handle.net/11681/481162024-03-27T19:31:03Z2023-07-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Final Environmental Assessment : Construction of New Laboratory Facilities for the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Raleigh, North Carolina
Authors: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington District
Abstract: This Environmental Assessment (EA) presents and discusses impacts that will potentially result from the construction of a new facility by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The proposed Plant Improvement Facility (PIF) will provide the requirements to operate the collaborative plant science efforts of the USDA Agricultural Research Facility (ARS) and North Carolina State University (NCSU). North Carolina State University is a state-owned public-land grant university located Raleigh, North Carolina.
Description: Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact2023-07-01T00:00:00ZIntegrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment for Coastal Storm Risk Management : Folly Beach, Charleston County, South CarolinaUnited States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington Districthttps://hdl.handle.net/11681/440802024-03-27T19:32:17Z2021-09-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment for Coastal Storm Risk Management : Folly Beach, Charleston County, South Carolina
Authors: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington District
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to evaluate Coastal Storm Risk Management along Folly Beach, a barrier island approximately 5.9 miles long located on South Carolina’s central coast in Charleston County. The Coastal Storm Risk Management study is a 100% federally-funded effort, with the City of Folly Beach as the non-Federal study partner. The City of Folly Beach would be the project sponsor. Project Delivery Team (PDT) representatives included participants of federal and local governments in the effort to identify the most cost-effective, publicly acceptable, environmentally acceptable, and technically sound alternative to reduce storm damage and associated risks along the project shoreline. This study identified coastal storm risks on Folly Beach, inventoried opportunities for addressing these problems, assessed planning constraints that could impact plan formulation, and analyzed alternatives. This analysis identified the National Economic Development (NED) plan, which is the plan that maximizes net benefits to the nation through reduction of future storm damages. Additionally, a prior United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) study—completed pursuant to Section 111 of the River and Harbor Act of 1968 (Section 111)—determined that federal navigation works at Charleston Harbor are responsible for much of the erosion along Folly Beach. As a result, Section 111 mitigation measures are included within this study’s Recommended Plan.
Description: Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Assessment2021-09-01T00:00:00ZFinal Environmental Assessment & Finding of No Significant Impact : Eagle Island Improvements, Dike Raise to Elevation 50 Feet, Eagle Island Confined Disposal Facility, Upper Wilmington Harbor, Cape Fear River, Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, North CarolinaUnited States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington Districthttps://hdl.handle.net/11681/372542024-03-27T19:33:01Z2017-04-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Final Environmental Assessment & Finding of No Significant Impact : Eagle Island Improvements, Dike Raise to Elevation 50 Feet, Eagle Island Confined Disposal Facility, Upper Wilmington Harbor, Cape Fear River, Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, North Carolina
Authors: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington District
Abstract: Wilmington Harbor, located on North Carolina's southeast coast, is one of the state's two deepdraft ports and a major contributor to its economy. The Wilmington Harbor navigation project connects deep water of the Atlantic Ocean with North Carolina State Ports Authority facilities at Wilmington, waterfront facilities in downtown Wilmington, and several businesses north of the City of Wilmington, by way of a 38-mile-long channel along the Cape Fear River. The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Wilmington District, is responsible for maintaining the federally authorized Wilmington Harbor navigation project. The primary disposal facility for dredged material from the Upper Harbor reaches of the Wilmington Harbor is the Eagle Island Confined Disposal Facility (CDF), which is located on the peninsula between the Cape Fear and Brunswick Rivers, south of U.S. Highway 74/76. Improvements to the Eagle Island CDF are required to provide adequate dredged material disposal capacity for continued maintenance dredging of the Wilmington Harbor navigation project. This Environmental Assessment (EA) addresses the improvement of Cells 1, 2, and 3 of the Eagle Island CDF in relation to other alternatives.
Description: Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact2017-04-01T00:00:00ZFinal Integrated General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Impact Statement : Shore Protection, West Onslow Beach and New River Inlet (Topsail Beach), North CarolinaUnited States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington Districthttps://hdl.handle.net/11681/372342024-03-27T19:32:26Z2009-04-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Final Integrated General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Impact Statement : Shore Protection, West Onslow Beach and New River Inlet (Topsail Beach), North Carolina
Authors: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Wilmington District
Abstract: This General Re-evaluation Report (GRR) summarizes efforts directed at evaluating the continued feasibility of not yet constructed hurricane and storm damage reduction features along the coastline adjacent to the Town of Topsail Beach, on Topsail Island, North Carolina. Originally authorized as the West Onslow Beach and New River Inlet, NC shore protection project in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1992, the local sponsor was not able to execute the Project Cooperation Agreement, and it was not subsequently constructed. During the intervening years, increasing storm damage has occurred along many portions of the shoreline of this part of North Carolina, notably by Hurricanes Bertha and Fran in 1996, and Hurricane Floyd in 1999. This increased coastal erosion threat, along with the increasing threat to existing and new development within the Town of Topsail Beach, led to initiation of this post-authorization General Reevaluation study in 2001. This report was prepared in compliance with the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 2001 that pertains to the authorized project for Topsail Beach. The study area consists of the Town of Topsail Beach, its shoreline, and adjacent borrow areas off the coast. The remainder of Topsail Island to the north of the Town of Topsail Beach is being studied under a separate study authority. This study serves as a reevaluation of the original report to the Congress of the United States and to identify if there are technically, environmentally, and economically feasible means of reducing damages caused by coastal hurricanes and storms within the identified study area. It also serves to examine the feasibility of providing hurricane and storm damage reduction features along a portion of the shoreline not originally authorized for construction, within the Town of Topsail Beach. The study team integrated representatives of Federal, State, and local governments, in the effort to identify cost-effective and environmentally- and technically-sound alternatives to reduce damages within the Town of Topsail Beach, and to its adjacent shoreline. The process fully integrated the Corps’ “Twelve Actions for Change”, in all aspects of the study process. The study effort identified a “National Economic Development” (NED) plan, which would maximize net benefits to the nation through reduction of future storm damages, as well as a “Locally-Preferred Plan (LPP), which is a plan that the local sponsor, the Town of Topsail Beach, supports. The recommended plan of action is construction of the Locally-Preferred Plan. The recommended plan, referred to in the GRR as “Plan 1250X”, consists of a sand dune constructed to an elevation of 12 feet above the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD), fronted by a 50-foot wide beach berm constructed to an elevation of 7 feet above NGVD. This dune and berm feature would extend 23,200 feet, with a 2,000 foot northern transition fill, and a 1,000 foot southern transition fill, for a total length of 26,200 feet. This total project length exceeds the originally authorized project length of 19,200 feet.
Description: General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Impact Statement2009-04-01T00:00:00Z