Accession Number:

ADA106936

Title:

Maintenance Dredging of the Federal Navigation Channels in the Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay, Michigan.

Descriptive Note:

Final environmental statement.

Corporate Author:

CORPS OF ENGINEERS DETROIT MI DETROIT DISTRICT

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1975-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

183.0

Abstract:

The proposed project is to perform maintenance dredging of the Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay Federal Navigation channels. Dredging will be performed by a Government-owned hopper dredge. Approximately 140,000 cubic yards of polluted material dredged from the river, from the Detroit and Mackinac Railroad Bridge to the upper limits of the harbor, is placed on the confined disposal area on Middle Ground Island. The polluted channel section from the DM R.R. bridge to the river mouth and the section throughout the inner bay will not be dredged until a confined disposal site is constructed to contain this dredged material. The average annual volume of shoaling throughout the project is approximately 840,000 cubic yards. Author

Descriptors:

• *DREDGING
• MAINTENANCE
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
• RIVERS
• WASTE DISPOSAL
• DREDGED MATERIALS
• CHANNELS(WATERWAYS)
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
• MICHIGAN
• BAYS

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
• Civil Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE