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 Upper
Mississippi River Restoration -
Environmental Management Program
Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement
Projects
 The
Upper Mississippi River Restoration Environmental
Management Program's (UMRR-EMP)
Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Project
(HREP) component has successfully combined a broad
range of construction techniques with approaches
that strive to use or mimic natural riverine
processes, providing benefits to the river at a
system reach, pool, and local scale.
UMRR-EMP’s HREPs are multi-faceted, allowing a
single project to enhance multiple types of habitat
and benefit many species.
Projects address
specific ecological goals and objectives, which
partners identify through a comprehensive planning
process.
The UMRR-RMP HREPs
employ several restoration techniques, including
shoreline protection, island creation, water level
management, backwater dredging, secondary channel
modifications, aeration, and floodplain and
tributary restoration.
The UMRR-EMP HREPs continually build upon
lessons learned in construction and managing prior projects, as
well as UMRR-EMP’s foundation partner coordination and
implementation mechanisms, including:
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Interagency groups in each of the three UMRS Corps Districts
that help identity, prioritize, and select projects;
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Documentation of the design methods and performance of
UMRR-EMP HREPs;
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Protocols for monitoring the physical, chemical, and
biological impacts of projects;
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System-level interagency coordination to exchange informant
and enhance approaches to project design, construction,
contracting, and monitoring; and
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Established mechanisms for soliciting public input and
involvement.
Project planning, engineering,
construction and monitoring approaches have evolved with the
program, resulting in improved habitat benefits to project costs
ratios. UMRR-EMP is continually enhancing its restoration
techniques, using lessons learned from existing projects and new
research findings.
Many of the insights gained are
captured in the
2006 Environmental Design
Handbook, which facilitates the
transfer of knowledge and experience both within and beyond
UMRR-EMP.
The Handbook also documents EMP’s
approach to adaptive management, which is a key to the Program’s
success.
The HREP component has fostered
interdisciplinary and collaborative planning for habitat
restoration, preservation, and enhancement previously unknown on
any other river system in the United States.
Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement
Projects
on the Upper Mississippi River System
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St. Paul District implements HREPs on the
Mississippi River above Lock and Dam 10 at Guttenberg, Iowa
(Pools 10 and above).
Information on HREP Projects
in the St. Paul District can be viewed
here.
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Rock Island District implements HREPs on the
Mississippi River between Lock and Dam 10 and Lock and Dam 22 at Saverton, Missouri, (Pools 11 through 22); and on the
Illinois Waterway above river mile 80 (including
LaGrange and Peoria Pools). Information
on HREP Projects in the
Rock Island District is available below.
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St. Louis District implements HREPs on
the Mississippi River south of Lock and Dam 22 to Cairo,
Illinois.
Information on HREP Projects
in the St. Louis District can be viewed
here.
Distribution of Environmental Management
Program
Habitat Rehabilitation and
Enhancement Projects
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Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement
Project Sites
Mississippi River
Illinois River
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