Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Offatts Bayou, Texas. Final environmental statement.

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dc.acquisition-srcNational Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA, 22161 ($17.50)en_US
dc.call-noAcc#471-Box#2en_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorU.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston Districten_US
dc.contributor.otheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:10:22Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:10:22Z
dc.date.issued1971en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description31 pgs.en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractThe navigation project provides for construction of a 12 x 125 ft. shallow draft channel extending from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into Offatts Bayou, a distance of about 2.2 miles, located in Galveston County, Texas. Material dredged from the Offatts Bayou section will be deposited on land north and west of the Galveston Municipal Airport, avoiding the marshes insofar as possible. The proposed channel is expected to improve circulation into the Bayou with probable improvement for marine life. The plan will reduce the probability of marine accidents which endanger life, property and the fishery resources in the area. Material dredged from the west Galveston Bay section will be pumped into existing unleveed open-water disposal areas. This will impair water circulation to some extent and remove some productive shallow bay bottoms, thus reducing estuarine nursery and waterfowl habitats. Although the proposed leveed disposal areas will temporarily eliminate a portion of the upland wildlife habitat, the vegetation is capable of rapid growth. Disposal on the existing areas in the bay will temporarily eradicate aquatic vegetation. Short-term, localized turbidity in the bay will result from dredging and disposal operations.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeGulf Intracoastal Waterwayen_US
dc.geo-codeOffatts Bayouen_US
dc.geo-codeGalvestonen_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Countyen_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Bayen_US
dc.geo-codeWest Bayen_US
dc.history5/26/06 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/22483
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Archives Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeGalveston, TXen_US
dc.publisherU.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston Districten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries471.00en_US
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dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.subjectship canalsen_US
dc.subjectchannelsen_US
dc.subjectnavigational channelsen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental conditionsen_US
dc.subjectdredgingen_US
dc.subjectdredge spoilen_US
dc.titleGulf Intracoastal Waterway, Offatts Bayou, Texas. Final environmental statement.en_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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