Southwest Pass - New Orleans District
Project Information
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Fiscal Year: 1997
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Project Dates: 12/11/96 - 11/9/97
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Contract Number: N/A
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Project Description: Dredging between Mile 4 AHP and Mile 22 BHP and the Crossings. Eight hopper dredges, a cutterhead, and dustpan were used. Below Mile 19 BHP is area of concern for sea turtles in SWP (STA 164-D and seaward); 101 days dredging in area of concern.
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Maintenace / New Work: Maintenance
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Federal / Regulatory: Federal
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Total Project Cubic Yards: 2000000
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Total Days of Dredging: 456
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Total Hours of Dredging: 0
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Type of Material: N/A
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Disposal Method(s) for Material: Agitation, dredge & haul mode
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Total Turtle Takes: 0
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Observer Company Used: Coastwise Consulting (Ouachita, Stuyvesant, Wheeler); REMSA (?)
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Predredge Trawling
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Predredge Trawling Company: N/A
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Predredge Trawling? No
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Are Predredge Reports Available? No
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Loggerheads: 0
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Greens: 0
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Kemp's Ridley: 0
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Other: 0
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Relocation Trawling
Relocation Trawling? No
N/A
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Relocation Company: N/A
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Loggerheads:
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Greens:
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Kemp's Ridley:
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Leatherbacks:
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Hawksbill:
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Total number turtles relocated: 0
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Are Relocation Reports Available? No
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Are Dredging Records Available? No
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Are original turtle take data still available? No
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Description of mitigation measures/dates used: Windows (11/30-3/31), Deflectors used on Eagle 1 but unsure if other dredges had deflectors (8 total).
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Other Remarks: Cubic yards an approximation. See "Baird, B.; Creef, E.; Thibodeaux, B. 1996. Water quality monitoring for sea turtle migration during dredging operations. Miscellaneous Paper W-95-1. Water Quality '96: Proceedinging of the Corps of Engineers 11th Seminar on Water Quality, 26 Feb-1 Mar 1996, Seattle, WA. U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS. Pages 191-196. Southwest Pass exempt from turtle observations
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Dredges for Project:
Turtle Takes during Project:
- There were no turtle takes by a dredge
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