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Environmental Enhancements to Great Lakes Breakwaters, Jetties and other Coastal Infrastructure

Environmental Enhancements to Great Lakes Breakwaters, Jetties and other Coastal Infrastructure. Cynthia J. Banks. Research Biologist Dredging 2012 23 October 2012. The Team. Cynthia Banks (ERDC ) Paul Bijhouwer (Buffalo District) Tony Friona ( ERDC ) Tom Fredette ( ERDC )

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Environmental Enhancements to Great Lakes Breakwaters, Jetties and other Coastal Infrastructure

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  1. Environmental Enhancements to Great Lakes Breakwaters,Jetties and other Coastal Infrastructure Cynthia J. Banks Research Biologist Dredging 2012 23 October 2012

  2. The Team • Cynthia Banks (ERDC) • Paul Bijhouwer (Buffalo District) • Tony Friona (ERDC) • Tom Fredette (ERDC) • Cheryl Pollock (ERDC) • Rich Ruby (Buffalo District) • Chuck Shea (Chicago District) • Burton Suedel (ERDC)

  3. Great Lakes (GL) Green Breakwaters Study • Evaluate alternatives for enhancing aquatic ecosystem benefits at existing breakwaters and navigation structures • During routine repairs and maintenance, as part of modifications, or during comprehensive structural repairs and replacements • Concept extends to shore protection structures, non-USACE structures

  4. GL Green Breakwaters Overall Concept & Approach Inventory & Classify Structures Identify Environmental Enhancements (EE) Identify Environmental Map Layers Conduct Webinars to Elicit EE Ideas & ID Candidate Sites Create Compatibility Matrix of Breakwater Classes & EE Candidate Sites & Case Study Tech Note - Detailed Tech Note - PR Style Technical Report

  5. USACE Structures

  6. Green Ideas • Pea gravel apron – fish spawning habitat • Mixed rock gradation, shelves, and caverns • Add substrate at bottom of sheet pile structures • Fish spawning stones • Create submerged spurs/sinuous toe • Rock headlands • Develop wetlands on sediment trapped • by structures • Tern nesting habitat • Osprey nesting platforms • Create littoral sediment bypass • Create flow channels

  7. Top Research Needs • Document case studies and benefits • Develop success assessment tools • Prioritization of sites where EE would be successful • Conduct demonstration projects

  8. Cleveland East Arrowhead Breakwater Demo Project Description • Demonstrate potential aquatic habitat improvements • GL coastal structures during routine maintenance activities • Simple design modifications to structural elements • Potential to reduce beneficial use impairments within GL region

  9. Project Approach • Beyond indirect and unplanned habitat creation • Modify design of featureless toe blocks used for breakwater maintenance • Provide features creating habitat opportunities for GL fish and other aquatic life • Examines creation of habitat surfaces on toe blocks • Protected indented shelf • Dimpled block surface • Grooved block surface

  10. Toe Block Fabrication • Modified breakwater toe blocks • Dimpled block surface • Habitat shelf with horizontal groove texture

  11. Toe Block Fabrication • Modified breakwater toe blocks • Toe block with horizontal groove surface • Featureless toe block (control)

  12. Cleveland Harbor East Arrowhead Repairs • April 2012 • June 2012

  13. Toe Block Monitoring and Sampling • Toe block with horizontal groove (August 2012) • Sampler Design

  14. Next Steps • Monitoring surveys: • Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013 • Reporting • Second demonstration in GL

  15. Products http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/dots/doer/pdf/GLGB-Booklet.pdf http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/dots/doer/pdf/InlandPort-USACEEnvSustainability.pdf

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