USACE DesignAwards2000 - The Whole Building Design Guide
USACE DesignAwards2000 - The Whole Building Design Guide
USACE DesignAwards2000 - The Whole Building Design Guide
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Environmental Merit Award:<strong>The</strong> Yazoo Basin, ChannelImprovement Item 3B-1Leflore County, Mississippi<strong>Design</strong> Firm:U.S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg<strong>Design</strong> Agent:U.S. Army Engineer District, VicksburgChannel Improvement Item 3B-1consisted primarily of five miles of channelimprovements. <strong>The</strong> problems were performingthe needed excavation, and placing thelarge volume of dredged material. Channelexcavation was accomplished using a floatinghydraulic dredge to reduce the impact on bankvegetation. <strong>The</strong> excavated material waspumped into a large confined disposal facilitywhich is designed to operate as a waterfowlforaging area to serve a migratorybird flyaway.This use of a former agricultural parcel integrated a wildlifehaven along a nationally significant migratory bird flyway.This project is an innovative approach to using dredged material to create wetland habitaton agricultural lands. Broad multi-disciplinary input avoided adverse impacts to forests,wetlands, and cultural resources, while earning praise from agricultural land owners.24
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