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The Black Warrior - Tombigbee Waterway provides a link from the upper Black Warrior basin to the port of Mobile. It also connects Mobile with the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and 1,600 miles of navigable inland waterways including the Ohio River and the upper Mississippi River. The Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway consists of a channel nine feet deep and 200 feet wide from the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama River to the head of navigation on the Black Warrior near Birmingham. The system also provides hydroelectric power, water supply, water quality, flood control, and recreational opportunities. The Black Warrior originates near Birmingham, AL, and flows south and west, joining the Tombigbee near Demopolis. The two rivers merge with the Alabama near Coffeeville to form the Mobile River, which in turn flows into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Carters Lake embraces a spectacular tract of mountain and valley scenery in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. Its sparkling waters and rugged shoreline provide a beautiful surrounding for a variety of recreational opportunities which include camping, fishing, picnicking, boating, mountain biking and hunting.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to aspects of coastal structures in the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to support environmental mapping in the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to support federal projects in the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to support federal studies conducted in the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to support aspects of navigation in the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to support activities of the CHARTS system in the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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This is an eCoastal thematic basemap to support regional sediment management activities of the Mobile District Corps of Engineers.
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In October 1999, the Mobile District of the US Army Corps of Engineers (SAM), initiated the USACE Northern Gulf of Mexico Regional Sediment Management Demonstration Program. The goal of the demonstration program is to change the paradigm of project specific management to focusing on a regional approach in which USACE as well as state and local agencies stop managing projects and begin "managing the sand." The product of the RSM demonstration program is a Regional Sediment Management Plan consisting of a calibrated regional sediment budget, a calibrated numerical regional prediction system, and a regional data management and Geographic Information System. This GIS also fullfills a requirement of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection by providing baseline information required for re-certification of Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
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The CESAM-OPJ GIS group will develop a Web Mapping Service (WMS) for Gulf Sturgeon Critical Habitat for the ERDC Environmental Laboratory (CEERD-EE-W) in Vicksburg, MS. EPA Environmental monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) hydrographic and benthic in faunal tabular data provided will be converted to a GIS and SDFIE compliant format for the project and displayed in the WMS. The site will provide access to the EMAP data alongside basemap and habitat related data for the Gulf region between Lake Ponchartrain, LA to Cedar Key, FL. This project outlines requested functionalities and data that will assist in mapping and visualizing habitat data alongside Corps projects such as navigation channels and related disposal areas that may indirectly affect or overlap Sturgeon habitat regions. The WMS will be generated and housed in Mobile along with the EMAP data except where data is pulled from other WMS sites
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The LA/UE Watershed study is a partnership between USACE, USGS, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) and the Georgia EPA. The project sponsors include two local water authorities and eleven counties in the LA/UE project area. The LA/UE Data Management project objectives are to consolidate the storage of the data collection and make it accessible to project partners and sponsors through a web-interface, with data access and downloads available through conventional queries and predefined forms, as well as spatially through a map interface.
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Nestled in the foothills of the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains lies Lake Sidney Lanier, one of America’s favorite lakes. Over 7.5 million people a year choose to visit Lanier. With over 692 miles of shoreline, the lake is well known for its aqua-blue colored water, spectacular scenery and variety of recreational activities. Constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950’s, Lake Lanier is a multi-purpose lake that provides for flood protection, power production, water supply, navigation, recreation and fish and wildlife management. Lake Lanier is one of 464 lakes in 43 states constructed and operated by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. It has won the best operated lake of the year award in 1990, 1997 and 2002.
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Located only seven miles northwest of Meridian, MS on Okatibbee Creek, Okatibbee Lake is an important feature in the development of the Pascagoula River Basin. The project was authorized by Congress in 1962 primarily for flood reduction on 26,000 acres of residential, industrial and agricultural lands along Okatibbee Creek and the upper Chickasawhay River. Today, the beautiful waters of the lake and the surrounding forests provide excellent recreational opportunities including boating, fishing, camping, hunting, and enjoying the parks. Lake Okatibbee consists of 4,144 acres of lake surface, 7,150 acres of land, and 28 miles of shoreline.
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The Lake Seminole project, originally authorized as the Jim Woodruff Lock & Dam Project by the River and Harbor Act of 1946, was the first of three locks and dams constructed for navigation, hydro-power, recreation and related use purposes on the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint River systems. Construction of this multi-purpose project began in 1947 and was completed in 1957 at a cost of 46.5 million. Electric power generated by the Jim Woodruff Powerhouse serve both homes and industry. Group tours can be arranged by contacting the Resource Management Office or the Jim Woodruff Powerhouse. Lake Seminole borders both Georgia and Florida and has 37,500 acres of water and over 18,000 acres of surrounding land. Extending up the Chattahoochee River 30 miles and up the Flint River 35 miles, Lake Seminole has 376 miles of shoreline.
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Enjoy the natural beauty of the lake and the Chattahoochee River, as well as the gracious ante-bellum mansions located in nearby historic towns, such as Eufaula, Alabama and Cuthert, Georgia. Whether you want to get away for a week, a weekend or just an afternoon, Walter F. George Lake provides the right atmosphere and facilities. The lake, sometimes referred to as Lake Eufaula, extends 85 miles along the Chattahoochee River and borders the states of Alabama and Georgia. With 640 miles of shoreline, Walter F. George Lake offers plenty of room for all of your favorite camping, outdoor and water-related activities.
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USACE has been working on the West Fork Little River (WFLR) restoration project in conjunction with Hall County, GA, the project sponsor. As part of that project, USACE has conducted several field investigations along the WFLR collecting various data including GPS data, photographs, and field notes in both paper and digital formats. Field surveys were conducted based on identified stream segments along the WFLR. There are approximately 580 identified stream segments from which roughly 248 segments have related data. USACE would like to provide the sponsor with a product that would enable them to access and evaluate the project data collected through a GIS interface such as an Internet Map Server (IMS) site with hyperlinks providing access to the various photographs, documents, and field notes for the corresponding stream segments and data points.
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A multi-objective, comprehensive technical evaluation will be conducted in close coordination and consultation with the State of Mississippi, Federal agencies, and stakeholders to determine the nature and level of hurricane protection and environmental restoration for coastal Mississippi. The water resources mission areas of hurricane protection, flood control, interior drainage, navigation, and ecosystem restoration, must be integrated synergistically during plan formulation and evaluation to identify preliminary plans and designs that would provide increased hurricane protection for the Mississippi Gulf Coast, as well as avoid and minimize unintended consequences of taking such actions.
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Through the FEMA/Corps of Engineers National Hurricane Study Program, the Corps performs studies and provides products to assist state and local emergency managers and elected officials in planning for hurricanes and making evacuation decisions. Alabama's coastline extends over an area of 607 miles. Mobile and Baldwin Counties are the two coastal counties and they accommodate a combined population of approximately 476,923. The main coastal industries are tourism, fishing, seafood production, natural gas production, and shipping. The port of Mobile is one of the 10 busiest ports in the U.S.
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Mobile District's civil works boundaries cover parts of four states -- Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Over 96,000 square miles, with several of the South's major river basins and 340 miles of the intracoastal waterway are included in our civil works area of operation. Our civil works mission encompasses six main areas. These are flood control, navigation, water supply, environmental sustainment, hydropower, and recreation. Within our civil works boundaries, we accomplish these missions within the drainage basins of the Pascagoula, Black-Warrior-Tombigbee, Tennessee-Tombigbee, Alabama-Coosa, Apalachicola-Chattahooche-Flint, St. Marks and intervening river systems.
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This study provides an opportunity to examine the status of the nation’s shoreline for the first time in 30 years, in order to provide a basis for Federal actions regarding shoreline management in general, and shore protection in particular. Study proponents expect the study results to promote a systems and more consistent interagency approach to better coastal management. The technical component to this project revolves around the online mapping system. This system allows all users to view and retrieve shoreline specific data.
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The Pacific Sound Resources (PSR) Superfund site is a former wood treating facility adjacent to Elliott Bay, on Terminal 5 in the Port of Seattle, WA. Wood was treated at the site from 1909 to 1994 using various treating solutions (creosote, pentachlorophenol, and metals). Soil and groundwater were impacted by these historic operations, and nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPL) are present in the subsurface. Ongoing remedial action work in the MSU is fully funded via the PSR Environmental Trust and has already been allocated by EPA to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. The Corps, in concert with several private contractors, is responsible for completing work in the MSU at an anticipated cost of $15 million.
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Communities use GIS as a management, decision-support, institutional control and outreach tool to turn brownfields into performing economic assets and to revitalize the economic and environmental health of our communities by tracking and inventorying brownfields, promoting revitalized sites to potential businesses, mapping, site review, and environmental review. This online map service uses a Geographic Information System (GIS) to integrate the existing business practices to facilitate the sharing and distribution of related datasets.
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The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234 mile (377 km) artificial waterway that provides a connecting link between the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. The waterway begins at Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, then flows southward through northeast Mississippi and west Alabama, finally connecting with the established Warrior-Tombigbee navigation system at Demopolis, AL. After 12 years of construction, the waterway and its 17 public ports and terminals opened to commercial traffic in January 1985. In addition to the original 110,000 acres (445 km²) of land acquired for the construction and operation of the project, another 88,000 acres (356 km²) have been purchased and managed by the two state conservation agencies for wildlife habitat preservation and mixed use including hunting and parks. The elevation change between the two ends of the waterway is 341 feet (104 m).
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Through the FEMA/Corps of Engineers National Hurricane Study Program, the Corps performs studies and provides products to assist state and local emergency managers and elected officials in planning for hurricanes and making evacuation decisions. The Texas Hurricane Evacuation Study program covers 624 miles of coastline from the Sabine Pass to the Rio Grande and includes 22 counties. For the purpose of hurricane emergency preparedness and response planning, the Texas coast is divided into five Study Areas. This effort will focus on the Galveston Study Area data and possibly include general coastal data. As study areas are completed or updated, data will be added to the system.
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work closely to provide navigation information to the maritime community. NOAA is responsible for charting the coastline of the United States including the navigation channels that vessels use to transit in and out of the major ports of the United States. These navigation channels are portrayed and described on NOAA products including the Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC). USACE is responsible for the maintenance and surveying of these navigation channels. USACE channel data is a key component of the NOAA ENC and of vital interest to the mariner. The channel data
includes hydrographic survey information as well as channel limits. The channel limits are referred to as the channel framework.
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The Mobile District of the US Army Corps of Engineer, along with its state and local partners, has worked to identify funds that could be requested to accelerate the existing Federal Shore Protection Feasibility Study for Walton County. Also, beach profiles were collected countywide for the federal study. Taylor Engineering and the Mobile District began the process of identifying and reviewing all available offshore sand sourcing information to identify prospective offshore areas for further exploration. After Arlene and Dennis struck Walton County and recovery efforts expanded, the county’s current expectation is that almost all 20 miles of developed shorelines in Walton County will be deemed “critically eroded."
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West Bay is the westernmost embayment of the St. Andrew Bay estuary. The bay supports notable shellfish and seagrass communities, important fisheries, and other environmental and economic resources. The West Bay watershed is characterized by extensive pine flatwoods, as well as hardwood forests, cypress wetlands, mixed-forested wetlands, fresh marshes, and other wetlands. Salt marshes, inland forested wetlands, and associated upland communities are especially prominent in several areas, including the Breakfast Point peninsula and adjacent to theBurnt Mill Creek and Crooked Creek tributaries.
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