9 Foot Navigation Channel Project Channel Maintenance Management Plan Upper Mississippi River Head Of Navigation To Guttenberg Iowa

The purpose of this Environmental Impact Statement is to analyze the environmental impacts of actions proposed in the Channel Maintenance Management Plan (CMMP) for maintaining a 9-foot navigation channel, along with commercial and small-boat harbors, on the Upper Mississippi River between Guttenberg, Iowa and the head of navigation at Minneapolis, Minnesota. The proposed actions analyzed in this document include dredging; dredged material placement; recreational beach maintenance and development; repair, construction, modification, and/or removal of channel structures; clearing and snagging operations; and future site planning for dredged material placement. Site specific social and economic effects of the CMMP range from slightly negative effects to significantly positive effects. ANNOTATION: Reprint: -Foot Navigation Channel Project; Channel Maintenance Management Plan, Upper Mississippi River, Head of Navigation to Guttenberg, Iowa, Volume 1.