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TABLE A-1 Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System - Traffic Delays per Tow Annual Average (hours)a

System

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

Mississippi River

Upper St. Anthony

0.03

0.03

0.03

0.02

0.01

0.03

0.03

0.02

0.01

0.03

0.03

0.03

Lower St. Anthony

0.03

0.06

0.06

0.03

0.03

0.02

0.04

0.03

0.02

0.03

0.04

0.02

Lock and Dam 1

0.05

0.07

0.16

0.15

0.19

0.18

0.17

0.03

0.02

0.04

0.03

0.05

Lock and Dam 2

0.73

0.58

0.60

0.49

0.39

0.53

0.55

0.56

0.56

0.55

0.48

0.62

Lock and Dam 3

0.70

0.57

0.59

0.52

0.45

0.51

0.52

0.47

0.42

0.47

0.42

0.53

Lock and Dam 4

0.51

0.45

0.39

0.39

0.29

0.39

0.40

0.42

0.40

0.52

0.41

0.38

Lock and Dam 5

0.44

0.46

0.50

0.44

0.42

0.41

0.56

0.45

0.39

0.45

0.40

0.42

Lock and Dam 5a

0.42

0.42

0.41

0.46

0.33

0.44

0.43

0.49

0.42

0.50

0.45

0.41

Lock and Dam 6

0.67

0.71

0.64

0.70

0.46

0.63

0.73

0.68

0.60

0.66

0.61

1.05

Lock and Dam 7

0.83

0.70

0.68

0.64

0.55

0.60

0.67

0.70

0.75

0.66

0.69

0.86

Lock and Dam 8

0.89

0.81

0.89

0.60

0.62

0.89

0.96

0.88

0.75

0.83

0.77

0.89

Lock and Dam 9

0.54

0.47

0.57

0.39

0.46

0.60

0.60

0.65

0.70

0.70

0.76

0.65

Lock and Dam 10

0.71

0.51

0.69

0.51

0.39

0.81

0.89

0.95

0.67

0.76

0.73

0.82

Lock and Dam 11

1.79

1.39

1.19

0.74

0.72

1.25

0.97

0.96

0.84

0.95

0.94

0.95

Lock and Dam 12

1.31

1.32

1.24

0.70

0.57

0.98

1.13

1.01

0.82

1.06

0.87

1.30

Lock and Dam 13

1.16

1.52

1.25

0.95

0.71

1.32

1.26

0.82

0.70

1.00

0.99

0.97

Lock and Dam 14

3.97

1.43

1.19

0.89

0.93

1.66

2.40

2.75

2.53

3.91

2.57

2.48

Lock and Dam 15

3.11

2.53

2.78

2.09

1.10

2.56

3.23

1.68

1.89

2.75

1.48

2.83

Lock and Dam 16

1.91

1.83

2.20

2.71

0.92

1.60

1.67

1.24

1.55

1.78

1.27

2.04

Lock and Dam 17

3.91

1.85

2.26

5.14

0.88

2.25

1.81

1.57

2.16

2.15

1.55

1.76

Lock and Dam 18

3.07

2.89

2.62

2.88

0.97

3.17

2.53

1.47

1.25

1.80

1.60

2.11

Lock and Dam 19

1.01

0.88

1.11

1.07

0.70

0.82

0.85

0.77

0.70

0.74

0.81

0.79

Lock and Dam 20

5.31

1.97

2.65

5.16

0.99

2.25

3.43

1.76

1.71

2.17

2.72

2.38

Lock and Dam 21

2.35

2.07

2.33

1.90

1.05

3.15

3.02

1.73

1.68

1.94

2.21

2.65

Lock and Dam 22

5.06

3.06

4.21

3.43

1.76

6.62

8.32

3.53

2.90

3.83

3.64

5.20

Lock and Dam 24

6.00

2.94

4.16

3.06

1.48

5.05

4.79

3.03

4.60

2.92

2.71

4.10

Lock and Dam 25

3.76

2.86

6.51

2.93

2.68

5.78

3.94

3.07

4.82

3.81

3.23

5.71

Melvin Price (26)

7.28

1.47

1.73

1.04

2.35

5.25

0.80

0.61

0.66

8.37

2.03

3.97

Lock and Dam 27

5.17

4.30

8.32

1.26

6.31

4.49

14.42

39.09

2.33

6.51

0.96

0.79
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1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

Illinois Waterway System

LaGrange

1.47

0.52

1.17

0.22

1.51

3.54

6.32

3.67

2.11

2.79

4.61

2.47

Peoria

0.84

0.50

1.10

0.13

1.40

2.23

2.48

2.19

1.04

1.30

1.62

1.21

Starved Rock

0.85

0.91

0.84

1.12

1.54

1.70

0.95

1.38

1.16

1.29

1.35

1.53

Marseilles

1.35

1.14

1.24

1.35

1.60

2.18

1.02

1.61

1.52

1.68

1.72

2.02

Dresden Island

0.77

0.77

0.74

0.68

1.08

2.47

0.79

0.87

1.11

1.01

1.04

1.36

Brandon Road

0.93

0.89

0.94

1.24

1.67

2.38

0.95

1.19

1.34

1.28

1.45

1.73

Lockport

1.08

1.02

1.09

1.30

1.91

2.69

1.10

1.35

1.81

1.38

1.99

1.73

Thomas J.O’Brien

0.04

0.05

0.07

0.06

0.08

0.07

0.08

0.07

0.08

0.05

0.06

0.05

aAverage delay= average time from arrival to start of lockage. SOURCE: USACE, 2004.
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For the past few years, the Corps has been working on what is known as the Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study, the heart of which is a multibillion-dollar proposal to double the length of up to a dozen locks on the river. The Research Council first reviewed the feasibility study in 2001 during controversies over the accuracy of models being used by the Corps to justify lock expansion based on increased demand for barge transportation. More than 100 million tons of cargo--half of it grain destined for international markets, the other half goods such as construction materials, coal, and chemicals--are shipped along the navigation system each year. The locks, which along with dams allow barges to traverse uneven river depths, were originally designed for "tows" of barges up to 600 feet long, but the length of a typical tow has increased, forcing the Corps to look for ways to relieve congestion.

The book finds the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has made good progress in broadening its proposed plan for navigation improvements on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway system to give greater consideration to ecological restoration. However, the plan still does not provide sufficient economic justification for expanding locks on the rivers because of flaws in the models the Corps used to predict demand for barge transportation. Little attention is paid to inexpensive, nonstructural navigation improvements that could help better manage existing levels of barge traffic. The revised plan has been usefully expanded to include many creative and potentially useful ecosystem restoration measures. These measures, however, should be more firmly grounded in river science principles and more broadly consider ways the river's ecology might affect or be affected by navigation, recreation and other uses.

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