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https://hdl.handle.net/11681/47901| Title: | National Review of Non-Corps Environmental Restoration Projects |
| Authors: | Shreffler, David K. Thom, Ronald M. Scott, Michael J. Wellman, Katharine F. Walters, M. Angela Curran, Mark |
| Keywords: | Wetland mitigation Wetland restoration Wetlands Wildlife-related recreation |
| Publisher: | U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources. |
| Abstract: | The Corps has been involved in environmental restoration through current and past activities in environmental design of waterways projects, cultural and natural resource projects, the Department of Defense (DoD) Environmental Quality Strategic Research and Development (R&D) Plan, and the Tri-Agency Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (Environmental Protection Agency, DoD, Department of Energy). However, despite its demonstrated leadership role in environmental restoration, the Corps lacks an integrated approach across programs and organizations that provides methods and procedures to formulate, design, and estimate costs for environmental restoration projects. The Corps has a mandate to include environmental features in all Corps projects at the earliest planning phase and to aggressively advocate environmental considerations through all phases of the project life. Yet, little guidance is available to assist planners in the following areas: 1) identifying potential environmental variables that could be modified to improve environmental outputs; 2) identifying alternative management measures for modifying those variables; 3) identifying the various engineering features or components of those management measures; 4) determining the associated probability of success of alternative management measures; and 5) estimating their costs. The objective of the present study performed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) was to compile and compare management measures, engineering features, monitoring techniques, and detailed costs for a representative sample of non-Corps environmental projects or engineering projects with environmental features. Case histories for non-Corps projects from various geographic areas throughout the United States were compiled. The PNL study is a companion study to a similar IWR in-house evaluation of Corps projects. In addition, IWR has developed a prototype information tree for environmental restoration plan formulation and cost estimation. These will be used by the Corps to develop guidance documents for EEIFIME Work Unit problems. |
| Description: | IWR Report |
| Gov't Doc #: | IWR Report 95-R-12 |
| Rights: | Approved for Public Release; Distribution is Unlimited |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11681/47901 |
| Appears in Collections: | IWR Reports |
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