General Design Memorandum, Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi. Design Memorandum Number1. Main Report

摘要

This report consists of an economic, engineering and environmental reanalysis ofthe proposed modifications to the existing Federal project for commercial navigation at Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi. Improvements to the existing Federal project at Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi, were authorized by the Supplemental Appropriations Act of Fiscal Year 1985 (PL 99-88 dated 15 August 1985). This Act was modified by the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1986 (PL 99-662 dated 17 November 1986), and further modified by the Water Resources Development Act of 1988 (PL 100-676 dated 17 November 1988). The authorization in the WRDA of 1986 provides for construction and maintenance of a project 36 feet deep by 300 feet wide in Mississippi Sound, 38 feet deep by 400 feet wide through Ship Island Bar, relocation of the Ship Island Bar channel 1,000 feet west of the present channel alignment with appropriate bend widening at each end, and a littoral drift impoundment basin 38 feet deep by 300 feet wide by 2,000 feet long opposite the western tip of Ship Island. (jhd)