Water Resources Planning for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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The various studies that were conducted as part of this effort were in many ways unprecedented in scope, approaches employed, and in their analytical complexities. As the overall feasibility study progressed, two successive committees of the National Research Council (NRC)
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Introduction 9 FIGURE 1.1 Locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway.
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After resuming work on the restructured feasibility study, the Corps requested the National Research Council to convene a second committee to review technical aspects of the ongoing study. The second, or Phase II, committee began its activities in 2003, issuing two reports in 2004 (NRC, 2004a,b)
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larger issues: · Implications of the 2004 NRC "216 Studies" (that reviewed Corps of Engineers methods of peer review and methods of analysis) for managing resources of the UMR-IWW, and similar large river systems; · Other water-related issues in the region that relate to integrated UMR-IWW system management, such as water quality and floodplain management; · Implementing adaptive management; and · Quantification and valuation of Corps project benefits, especially environmental benefits.
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