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Great Lakes and Ohio River Division: Just the facts

Civil boundaries

Flood Control & Control Damage

Geographic Territory

83 flood control lakes/reservoirs

All or parts of 17 states:

(5 dry dams out of 383 in Corps)

Ala, Ga, Ill, Ind, Ky, Md, Miss, Minn, Mass,.

(Ind-8; Ky-18; N.Y-2; Ohio-28; Pa-11,)

N.C, N.Y, Ohio, Pa, Tenn, Va, Wis & W. Va.

(Tenn-5, Va-2; W.Va-9)

- 335,000 sq.miles/70 million population

25.3 million acre-feet of flood storage

- 27 projects under construction

at Corps lakes

- 182 projects operated/maintained

539 miles of levees inspected

- Real estate holdings: 688,000 acres

95 local flood protection projects

of land, which includes 517,000 acres

- $3.6 billion to construct

of lake surface area

- more than $24.5 billion cumulative

Military

damages prevented

- $2.45 billion in damages

States of Ky, Ind, Ill, Ohio, Miss

prevented in 2005

306,000 square miles

Recreation

- 8 Army and 4 Air Force installations

- 2 DOD sites

82 lakes

Major military environmental stewardship or

747 Recreation Areas

improvement activities

- 402 Corps managed

- Joliet AAP, Ill and Kincheloe AFB, Miss

- 345 Partner managed

$58 million spent on military environmental

73 visitor centers

activities

49 state parks

Hydropower

676 boat ramps

15,691 campsites

10 Corps plants on St. Marys and

- 5,877 Corps managed

Cumberland Rivers

- 9,814 Partner managed

935 megawatts capacity

15,942 miles of shoreline

3.8 billion kwh generated

Visitation: 94 million visits in 2005

$44 million in revenue from sales

Impact: Over $1.4 billion in local spending

15 non-Federal plants at Corps dams

- $5.55 milllion in users fees in 2005

900 megawatts capacity

Environmental Stewardship

Interagency, International Services

1.45 million acres of land and water

$39 million spent on Support to

11,750 miles of shoreline

Other Agencies in FY05

19,000 acres of mitigation land

20 EPA Superfund cleanup sites

39 state wildlife management areas

Other Programs

4 Federal fish hatcheries and refuges

49 State Parks/natural areaes

$48 million spent on FUSRAP

2,500 acres of prairie restored/managed

8 FUSRAP (Formerly Used Sites

15 threatened & endangered species

Remedial Action Program locations)

13 Corps natural areas

Navigation

Regulatory Permits

3400 miles of commercial waterways

Section 404, Clean Water Act, 1972,

- 10% of U.S. inland waterways

prohibits discharging dredged material into

- Carry 43% of U.S. inland waterborne

US waters without a Corps permit.

commerce

Section 10, Rivers & Harbors Act, 1899,

- Ohio River System tonnage: 271 mil. tons

prohibits obstruction of navigable U.S. waters

- Main commodities: coal & aggregates

without a Corps permit.

- Great Lakes tonnage: 178 million tons

- 1,250 individual permits issued in FY04

78 lock & dam projects

- 11,500 activities authorized

(out of 209 Corps locks)

under general permits

Ohio River: 20

- 475 acres of wetlands

Allegheny River: 8

affected by permits

Monongahela River: 9

- 1,133 acres of wetland protection,

Kanawha River: 3

restoration or creation required

Kentucky River: 13 (caretaker status)

Budget & Manpower

Green River: 8 (4 incaretaker status)

Cumberland River: 4

Total Division employees:

Tennessee River: 9

4,500 civilians, 19 military

Clinch River: 1

(+150 summer hires)

St. Mary's River: 1

Division office employees: 115

Chicago Harbor: 1

94 civilians, 2 military

Niagara River: 1

Annual budget: $1.4 billion

Civil workload: $954.3 million

Civil manpower: 4,015 FTE

Harbor

Military workload: 358 million

Environment workload: $42 million

66 deep draft (>14ft.) ports

Military manpower: 426 FTE

80 shallow draft harbors

Interagency, International Services: $39 million

Tonnage moving through ports

FUSRAP workload: $48 million

- 178 million tons

Civil SFO manpower: 80 FTE

Emergency Responses

Dredged harbor & channels

4.5 million cu. yds. at a cost of $4.5 million

Jan. 2005 flooding - Ohio, Ind, & Pa.

Sept 2004 Hurricane Frances

Sept 2004 Flooding Ohio, W. Va.& Pa

District Offices

($10M FEMA Missions)

Buffalo, N.Y.

July 2004 Advance Measures

Chicago, Ill.

Dead River Basin, MI

Detroit, Mich.

May 2004 Flooding IN and WV

Pittsburgh, Pa.

($5.5M FEMA Missions)

Huntington, W.Va.

Mar. 2004 Pt Pleasant WV Local

Louisville, Ky.

Protection Project Rehab ($1.5M)

Nashville, Tenn

Sept 2003 Hurricane Isabel

May 2003 Storms IL and TN

Dec. 2002 Typhoon Pongsona

July 2002 Typhoon Chataan

Division Office

Cincinnati, Ohio

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a 230-year-old civilian organization with military leadership,

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Apr-06