Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Development Opportunities Conference

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Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Development
Opportunities Conference
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FY 2008/2009/2010 OM PROGRAM
Includes 5.7M for Mooring Cells and Lock
Closures Includes 1.8M for Water Control
Manuals Includes 550K for Water Control
Manuals American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA) Received an additional 4 Million
Supplemental Funding for Dredging
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TENN-TOM OM FUNDING FOR FY02 FY09(Presidents
Budget Appropriations)
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
OM Funding by Business Program
48.6M
5M
105.5M
59.1M
9.5M
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Mobile Harbor Turning Basin

• Type of Work New
• Depth 45 Feet
• Quantity 2.6Mcy
• Type of Material Sand, Silt and Clay
• Disposal Area (D/A) Upland/Ocean
• Distance to D/A 35 miles (Ocean)
• Type of Equipment Bucket/Pipeline
• Contract Awarded 8 Jul 09
• Contractor Great Lakes D D Co.
• Start Work Around late Aug 09
• Completion Projected in March 2010

Project Costs CG Federal 6M CG
Non-Federal 2M ARRA Federal
16M ARRA Non-Federal 5M Total
29M
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ARRA

• Key Focus Areas
• Job Preservation and Creation
• Infrastructure Investment
• Energy Efficiency
• Projects
• Backlog Maintenance/Buy Down Risk
• Energy Efficiency
• Focus on quick execution/job creation
• Cooperation of users during outages

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ARRA(Key Projects)
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Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Tonnage
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TTWW DREDGING PROGRAM
FY2007 Work

• Inland Dredge KELLY L
• 10 July 21 August 2007 (43 days)
• 4 Most Critical Locations
• Approximately 10,000 linear feet of bars,
  191,000 cubic yards of material removed
• Several locations were not dredged due to
  funding limitations

FY2008 Work

• No Project Contract due to funding limitations
• Issued Task Order to Shared 16/24 Dredge
  Contract with Coastal Project
• Dredged 2 Locations
• Approximately 6,500 linear feet of bars,
  130,000 cubic yards of material removed
• Increased Survey Efforts to Monitor Channel
  Conditions
• Hot Spots Removed with R.W.DAVIS

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TTWW 2009 DREDGING PROGRAM
Supplemental Funding

• Received 4 million
• ENCO Dredge EDWARD G
  (subcontract to Mike Hooks, Inc.)
• Approximately 9 bars 225,000 cy

ARRA Funding

• Received 8 million
• 4.2M Committed for 2009 (balance carry over
  to FY10)
• Inland dredge INGENUITY
• Approximately 8 bars 350,000 cy

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DREDGE MATERIAL REMOVAL WORK

• Regain critical disposal capacity
• Agreements for removal of materials
• Beneficial use of materials
• Barge to Louisiana Gulf Coast
• Truck to local markets
• Approximately 200,000 cubic yards removed

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OM CONTRACT

• TTWs OM Contract expired September 30, 2008.
• Maintenance work performed under BWTs OM
  contract from October 1, 2008 through April 8,
  2009.
• New TTW OM contract awarded April 7, 2009.

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LOCK CLOSURES

• Selden Lock September 9 October 8, 2009
• Coffeeville Lock September 11 October 1, 2009
• Bankhead Lock September 14 October 4, 2009

NOTE Next Scheduled Lock Closures on the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (2011) are Wilkins
Lock, Bevill Lock and Heflin Lock.
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BEVILL CROSS-CURRENT
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Construct a system of nine submerged bendway weirs
Relocate the Snagboat Montgomery
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AQUATIC PLANT MANAGEMENT

• OM Contract
• Treated To Date 778 acres
• Projected Through End of FY 775 acres
• ARRA - Helicopter Contract (Projected Through End
  of FY)
• Floating Plant Treatment 1400 acres
• Submersed Plant Treatment 1000 acres

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QUESTIONS?
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Tennessee-Tombigbee WaterwayCanal Section Levee
Certification

• 20 August 2009

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Certification

• PAL gt Analyses gt Report gt FEMA
• 2 yr. max.
• Monroe, Itawamba, Tishomingo counties
• 31 August deadline to sign request or decline to
  seek accreditation

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Certification Requirements

• 44 CFR 65.10 and complementary USACE and FEMA
  regs
• Required report Submittals
• Engineering Analyses
• Operations and Maintenance Plans
• As-Builts
• Stamped by Engineer
• USACE requirements more comprehensive and
  exhaustive

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Issue

• Authority Public Law 79-525, 79th Congress, 2d
  Session, enacted July 24, 1946.
• Two-way barge traffic, no provisions in the
  authorization for flood control protection . . .

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Issue

• Certification no analyses exist that refute or
  demonstrate flood control performance required
  analyses are extensive.
• Hydraulics, geotechnical, vegetation compliance,
  OM . . .

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Issue

• Vegetation currently heavily wooded, can not
  certify unless vegetation and roots removed.
• Would also require increased annual OM to
  sustain levee requirements. . .

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Vegetation Requirement, Overbuilt
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Vegetation Requirement, Typical
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Issue

• Wildlife Mitigation Wooded areas on levee are
  part of Tenn-Tom mitigation lands.
• Clearing would likely require acquisition of
  replacement lands. . .

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