Background study on the environmental impacts of barge fleeting
Dates
Publication Date
1989-04
Summary
Background materials were compiled to determine what is currently known about barge fleeting on the Upper Mississippi River System. Background materials included available literature, contacts with professionals, permit information, regulatory statutes and a review of current aerial photography. Field investigations were conducted in an attempt to examine most of the fleeting areas on the Upper Mississippi and the Illinois rivers. Method of anchoring barges, distance to shore, water depths, substrate and shoreline composition, erosion, and any tree damage were noted. Fleeting areas were all located close to terminals. Barges were moored as close to the shore as water depths permitted. Trees were most often used for moorage in the Rock [...]
Summary
Background materials were compiled to determine what is currently
known about barge fleeting on the Upper Mississippi River System.
Background materials included available literature, contacts with
professionals, permit information, regulatory statutes and a
review of current aerial photography. Field investigations were
conducted in an attempt to examine most of the fleeting areas on
the Upper Mississippi and the Illinois rivers. Method of
anchoring barges, distance to shore, water depths, substrate and
shoreline composition, erosion, and any tree damage were noted.
Fleeting areas were all located close to terminals. Barges were
moored as close to the shore as water depths permitted. Trees
were most often used for moorage in the Rock Island Corps of
Engineers District and deadmen were most often used in the St.
Paul and St. Louis Districts. Trees were most often used for
moorage on the Illinois River.
Report by the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Rock Island Field Office, Rock Island,
Illinois, for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental
Management Technical Center, Onalaska, Wisconsin