Inland navigation system planning: the upper mississippi river-illinois waterway
Auteur :
National Research Council / Transportation Research Board / Division on Earth and Life Studies / Water Science and Technology Board / Committee to Review the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Navigation System Feasibility Study
Éditeur :
National Academies Press
ISBN :
9780309074056
Date de publication :
30 mars 2001
Dimensions :
27,9 x 21,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In 1988, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began an investigation of the benefits and costs of extending several locks on the lower portion of the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway (UMR-IWW) in order to relieve increasing waterway congestion, particularly for grain moving to New Orleans for export.