Background study on the environmental impacts of barge fleeting 


Millar, J. D., and M. S. Mahaffy.  1989.  Background study on the
environmental impacts of barge fleeting.  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, September 1989. 
EMTC 89-04.  49 pp.  (NTIS # PB90 133595/AS)


ABSTRACT

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.


KEYWORDS

Upper Mississippi River System, Barge Fleeting, Long Term Resource
Monitoring Program