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Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries Report and Symposium Proceedings (1987) / Chapter Skim
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Part II. Proceedings of the Symposium
Pages 25-30

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From page 26...
... The Navy's new battle group home berthing program, its vital need to maintain constant readiness of naval port facilities, and the deeper drafts of the latest maritime weapons systems all accentuate the need to reduce its onerous and ongoing maintenance dredging. Reductions of operational and monetary maintenance costs for commercial facilities are also important to the United States economy, and the benefits of our efforts in this symposium should have widespread value.
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From page 29...
... Money is spent on such things as concept validation, system and component testing, and development of criteria. We hope that the money spent in this area will lead to some promising systems, which we can then advance into engineering development and eventually deploy for specific sites.
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Key Terms

  • maintenance dredging
  • disposal sites
  • experiment station
  • port facilities
  • waterways experiment

  • model studies
  • water depth
  • pass ible
  • dredged sediment
  • solicited contributions

  • committee organized
  • commercial facilities
  • legislature passed
  • mare island
  • particularly aircraft

  • bay exacerbated
  • current modification
  • maintenance costs
  • maintain constant
  • deepening harbors

  • half billion
  • billion dollar
  • limited capacity
  • barrier curtain
  • hauling distances

  • dollar annual
  • humboldt bay
  • sedimentation rate
  • ships themselves
  • models operate


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