Gary A. Loew Gary A. Loew Chief, Civil Works Programs I ntegration Chief, Civil Works Programs I ntegration U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Army Corps of Engineers December 1, 2006 December 1, 2006 1 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
The Army Civil Works Mission The Army Civil Works Mission The Army Civil Works Mission Provide the Nation with Responsive ... Provide the Nation with Responsive ... Protection, Restoration & Protection, Restoration & Development & Management of Development & Management of Management of Environmental Management of Environmental Water Resources I nfrastructure Water Resources I nfrastructure Resources Resources Disaster Response & Recovery Disaster Response & Recovery Engineering & Technical Services Engineering & Technical Services 2 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable in an environmentally, economically and technically sound manner in an environmentally, economically and technically sound manner
The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: Water Resources I nfrastructure Water Resources I nfrastructure Navigation Shore Protection • 12,000 miles of inland waterway • 12,000 miles of inland waterway • 383 reservoirs • 383 reservoirs • • 97 projects protect 284 miles of 97 projects protect 284 miles of • • 926 harbors 926 harbors • • 8,500 miles of levee 8,500 miles of levee shoreline shoreline • 2.5 B tons of commerce/year 2.5 B tons of commerce/year • • Prevent $6 in damage for Prevent $6 in damage for • Use of dredged material Use of dredged material • • • 250 M cubic yards dredged/yr 250 M cubic yards dredged/yr • every $1 invested from navigation projects every $1 invested from navigation projects Hydropower Recreation Water Supply • • 75 projects, 20,720 MW capacity 75 projects, 20,720 MW capacity • 4,330 sites at 456 projects 4,330 sites at 456 projects • • • 153 projects supply cities 153 projects supply cities • 3% of total US electric energy 3% of total US electric energy • • 375 M visits/year 375 M visits/year • • Including Wash. DC area • Including Wash. DC area • $900M in annual power sales $900M in annual power sales • • $15 B to local economies • $15 B to local economies 3 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: Environmental Resources Environmental Resources Ecosystem Restoration • WRDA 86 Sec 1135 • 11.7 M acres at Corps Environmental • Aquatic Ecosystems projects Stewardship • Everglades • Compliance w 70+ • Coastal Louisiana environmental laws Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action •Sec 10, River & Harbor Act 1899 Program (FUSRAP) Regulation of •Sec. 404, Clean Water Act 1972 Waterways •About 90,000 permit cases processed/year & Wetlands •Actions permitted on 21,000 acres; in return, 43,000 acres of wetland restoration or creation required • Cleanup of sites with low (2003) level radioactive waste – Transferred from DOE to Corps in 1998 4 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
The Civil Works Mission: The Civil Works Mission: Emergency Response Emergency Response DeployableTactical Potable Water & Ice Operations Centers Structural Safety Debris Removal Temporary Housing Emergency Power 5 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Appropriation Appropriation Appropriation by Business Program by Business Program by Business Program O Exec. Dir. & Mgmt. $154 M 3% t h e R e r $ c 2 $ r 7 e 1 5 a 7 t M i 9 o H n y M 5 d % $ r o 2 Water Supply 3 p 8 o 8 % w M $2 M 0.04% e Navigation r 5 % $2,060 M 38% Environment Regulatory, & FUSRAP $908 M 17% FY06 Total = Flood & Storm Emergency Management $5,383 M Damage Reduction $5 M 0.09% $1,512 M 28% Without 1% across the board rescission 6 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
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Water Resources – – the Situation the Situation Water Resources Water Resources – the Situation • Nation faces large and Nation faces large and • growing water resources growing water resources challenges: challenges: • Population pressures Population pressures • • Changes in national Changes in national • priorities and values priorities and values • Availability of water will Availability of water will • be significant factor in be significant factor in U.S. economic prosperity U.S. economic prosperity and quality of life. and quality of life. 8 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge: Competing Water Uses Challenge: Competing Water Uses Challenge: Competing Water Uses Aquatic Ecosystem Water Supply Navigation Restoration Indian Treaty Rights Fish & Wildlife Hydropower Recreation Flood & Coastal Storm Damage Reduction 9 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge: Aging Water Resources Challenge: Aging Water Resources Challenge: Aging Water Resources I nfrastructure I nfrastructure I nfrastructure • Half of locks 50+ years old • Investments in water resources infrastructure declining in real terms • Result: more frequent closures for repairs, decreased performance & costly delays Leaking spare miter gates, Upper Miss Lock 19 Crumbling lock wall, Lower Mon 3, opened in Concrete 1907 deterioration at Chickamauga could result in lock failure 10 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge: Water Challenge: Water Challenge: Water Transportation System Transportation System Transportation System • Demands on Marine Transportation System to double by 2020 • System can barely accommodate current traffic • Aging infrastructure • Deferred operation and maintenance • Current backlog of $9 B of improvements. 11 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge: Flood Flood- -Prone Areas Prone Areas Challenge: Challenge: Flood-Prone Areas Greenville, MS, Matfield •Development continues to increase •Rapid growth in at-risk coastal areas •Investments decreased by ~ 70% in real terms over past 3 decades. •Over $15 billion awaiting construction 12 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge: Environmental Environmental Challenge: Challenge: Environmental Sustainability Sustainability Sustainability •Balance between economic development, environmental stewardship •Water quality threatened on 8% of nation’s rivers and streams •Corps has authority and programs for ecosystem restoration. •South Florida example Riverlands Demonstration Area at Mel Price Lock & Dam (L&D 26) Alton, IL 13 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge: Water Supply Supply Challenge: Water Supply Challenge: Water I nfrastructure I nfrastructure I nfrastructure • Water supply needs increasing, supplies are not. • Demands near or above safe yields of supplies. • Water supply has always been local responsibility, but Federal role can assist. 14 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge- -Past Funding Past Funding Challenge Challenge-Past Funding 6000 No Inflation 5000 4000 Approp. 3000 2007?? 2000 1000 0 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 15 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Challenge-- --Future Funding? Future Funding? Challenge Challenge--Future Funding? Computed 9000 8000 Future A? 7000 6000 Future B? 5000 Approp. 4000 Needs 3000 2000 1000 0 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 16 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Alliances with State Water Managers Alliances with State Water Managers Alliances with State Water Managers • Recognize State primacy for water rights • Become primary Federal support for State-wide water planning • Provide technical assistance, data, watershed analysis • Bring cooperative solutions to water conflicts that avoid litigation or heavy-handed regulation 18 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
What Can We Offer Our Partners? What Can We Offer Our Partners? What Can We Offer Our Partners? • Engineering, scientific • Engineering, scientific GUIDING PRINCIPLES: GUIDING PRINCIPLES: and environmental and environmental • State & local governments expertise to assist with expertise to assist with have primary jurisdiction local projects. local projects. over water resources. • Watershed/systems • Watershed/systems • Our goal is to support State planning planning & local leaders in meeting • Coordination of their challenges. • Coordination of sustainable sustainable • We want to develop development on development on partnerships in planning, regional scale managing and integrating regional scale • We can offer expertise with • Avoidance of • Avoidance of balancing conflicting duplication and duplication and requirements. conflicting projects conflicting projects 19 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
Watershed Approach Watershed Approach Watershed Approach • New roles – not necessarily projects facilitator convenor integrator • Systems view • Watershed or basin scale of analysis • Balanced objectives • Innovative solutions, structural/nonstructural • Focus on results 20 Relevant, Ready, Responsive, Reliable
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