A Decision Support System for Dredging the Lower Mississippi River

by Jay R. Lund, Univ of California, Davis, United States,
David Moser, Univ of California, Davis, United States,
Kenneth I. Rubin, Univ of California, Davis, United States,
Thomas A. Denes, Univ of California, Davis, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Water Resources Planning and Management and Urban Water Resources

Abstract:

The paper describes a decision support system proposed to aid short-term scheduling of maintenance dredging activities on the lower Mississippi River for the New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The system is designed to coordinate and quickly assemble a wide variety of information sources and models relevant to the dredge scheduling decision. The support system would also provide summary measures of costs and benefits for proposed dredge depolyments.

Subject Headings: Dredging | Rivers and streams | Decision support systems | Scheduling | Maintenance and operation | Sediment | Benefit cost ratios | Mississippi River | United States | New Orleans | Louisiana

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