SABINE-NECHES WATERWAY (SNWW) CHANNEL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FEASIBILITY STUDY

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SWG ACTION TAKEN: Data on current and future fleets and trends are provided in the following locations: • FFR, Appendix 2 (Economic Appendix), Section 3.3 (Vessel Utilization and Operating Practices), Table 27 (Chemical Product Imports and Exports), Section 3.7 (Chemical Product Carriers). Section 3.8 (Grain Exports), Section 3.9 (Steel Slab and Iron Ore Carriers), Section 3.10 (Limestone and Rock Carriers). • FFR, Appendix 2 (Economic Appendix), pp. 25, 73, 75, 85, 88, 100 outlines existing vessel loaded draft utilization. Panel BackCheck Response to Comment 2: Concur with comments. The report does provide far more useful and defendable data on vessel counts, sizes, loaded draft, etc. However, some of these data raise more questions than they answer. Moreover, most of the data only cover through 2007, which is not acceptable in a reported dated 2010. If these 2007 data meet the rules and guidelines, it should be so stated and the IEPR Panel comments would be negated. Table 23 does not show an obvious trend toward deeper loaded drafts. The charts below, developed from Table 23, show a modest decline the in the number of trips and a stable share of trips with loaded drafts over 37’. 4000 Total SNWW Trips by Loaded Draft 3500 3000 Over 37 feet 37 ft or less 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 1990 1993 1996 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Source: FFR Appendix 2 Table 23 Addendum SNWW External Peer Review Report 12 Battelle June 16. 2010
Share of Total SNWW Trips by Loaded Draft 100% 90% 80% 15% 20% 27% 19% 19% 20% 22% 22% 22% 19% 26% 21% 70% 60% 50% %>37 ft %
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Gravens, M., and D.B. King. 2003. S
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conditons. In particular, RSLR was
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EPR RECOMMENDATION: 2. Include some
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(1995), Josephine (1996), Charlie (
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these extremely conservative minor
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dissipation will reduce the effect
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unique statistics of wave occurrenc
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• Commodity forecasts from other
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The STWAVE/GENESIS modeling study s
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used by the Corps for the baseline
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