The Rock Island District annually dredges approximately 750K cubic yards of material per year on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. The Beneficial Use Program allows the public free access to this material for things like fish and wildlife habitat development to human recreation, to industrial/commercial uses.

USACE is introducing its new Regulatory Request System, an online application portal that allows the public to submit permit applications and other information when requesting permission to dredge, fill or conduct activities in jurisdictional wetlands and waters of the U.S.