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Criteria for the Depths of Dredged Navigational Channels (1983) / Chapter Skim
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Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 107-110

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... Institutional Factors 3. The characteristics of design ships which have been used to determine the dimensions of channels in the United States no longer correlate with the characteristics of ships that use them.
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... Surveys and Overdredged Depths 12. In the United States, the practice is to rely on historical data rather than channel surveys to determine dredging frequency (except for emergencies)
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... The nautical depth concept should be adopted for silty channels of the United States.
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Key Terms

  • water depth
  • underkeel clearances
  • international commission
  • navigational channels
  • channel design

  • course stability
  • improved aids
  • underkeel clearance
  • immediate steps
  • channel designers

  • dredging frequency
  • silty channels
  • channel depth
  • international organizations
  • little exchange

  • dredging projects
  • ship owners
  • major dredging
  • ship draft
  • inf oblation

  • dredged depths
  • depth concept
  • ship characteristics
  • decreasing ratio
  • design ships

  • operational practices
  • nautical depth
  • hydrodynamic behavior
  • determine dredging
  • ship channel


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