Great Lakes Navigation Update

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1 Great Lakes Navigation Update June 15, 2018 The views, opinions and findings contained in this report are those of the authors(s) and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army position, policy or decision, unless so designated by other official documentation. BUILDING STRONG and Taking Care of People! ISO-9001

2 2 A non-linear navigation system with 60 federal commercial projects and 80 federal shallow draft/recreational projects

3 FY17 GL Navigation President s Budget + Work Plan Funding Great Lakes Navigation Operations & Maintenance $102.7M + $51.8M = $154.5M Key Items $38.4M + $10M in Dredging (31 projects: 3.2M M cy) $8.86M in Dredged Material Management $9.6M in Soo Asset Renewal $30.7M in navigation structure repair (by contract)

4 FY 18 GREAT LAKES NAVIGATION PRESIDENT S BUDGET Great Lakes Navigation Operations & Maintenance $106.23M Key Items $37.85M in Dredging (16 projects; 2.95M cy) $10.9M in Dredged Material Management $8.9M in Soo Locks Maintenance

5 FY18 GL Navigation President s Budget + Work Plan Funding Great Lakes Navigation Operations & Maintenance $106.2M + $52.4M = $158.6M Key Items $37.9M + $17.8M in Dredging (40 projects: ) 4.5M CY $11.3M in Dredged Material Management $15.8M in Soo Asset Renewal $19.0M in navigation structure repair (by contract)

6 FY 19 GREAT LAKES NAVIGATION PRESIDENT S BUDGET Great Lakes Navigation Operations & Maintenance $108.7M Key Items $39.8M in Dredging (21 projects; 2.9M cy) $10.6M in Dredged Material Management $2.0M in Soo Locks Maintenance

7 GL NAVIGATION FUNDING HISTORY 7 $200,000 $180,000 Executable Backlog Reduction Funding Range NAV O&M and CDF Funds (in $000's) $160,000 $140,000 $120,000 $100,000 Sustainable Funding Range $80,000 $60,000 ARRA Adds and National Provisions President's Budget Fiscal Year

8 HISTORICAL FUNDING GREAT LAKES LOW USE PROJECTS (<1M TONS) 35,000,000 30,000,000 25,000,000 20,000,000 15,000,000 10,000,000 5,000,000 0 FY 09 FY 10 FY 11 FY 12 FY 13 FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY18 FY19 President s Budget Workplan/Appropriation

9 A non-linear navigation system with 60 federal commercial projects and 80 federal shallow draft/recreational projects

10 6.0 DREDGING FUNDING TRENDS Quantity Dredged (millions of cubic yards) M Annual Reqm t Appropriation - Add'l Funds for Ongoing Work ARRA (Stimulus) L. Superior Regional Provisions Michigan Regional Provisions Commercial Regional Provisions Energy & Water Adds President's Budget 0.0 FY07 FY09 FY11 FY13 FY15 FY17 FY19

11 Great Lakes Dredging Backlog Cubic Yards Dredged (1,000 cu yds) - Blue Line 10,000 Annual Great Lakes Dedging 9,000 Average Annual Need 8,000 Dredging Backlog 7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1, ,000 16,000 12,000 8,000 4,000 0 Cumulative Backlog (1,000 cu yds) - Green Line

12 Current Dredged Material Placement Methods Lake Superior Ontonagon MI St. Marys River Percentages by volume ( ) 4% NEAR SHORE 14% CDF 37% OPEN WATER 45% UPLAND WI Near Shore CDF Open Water Upland Menominee Sturgeon Bay Kewaunee Green Bay Manitowoc Port Washington Milwaukee IL Kenosha Waukegan Calumet Indiana Harbor IN Frankfort Manistee Ludington Muskegon Grand Haven Holland St. Joseph Michigan City Cheboygan Saginaw MI Alpena Rouge River Detroit River OH Lake St. Clair Monroe Harbor Beach St. Clair River CANADA Buffalo Dunkirk Erie PA Rochester NY Oswego

13 THE SOO LOCKS LYNCH PIN OF THE GREAT LAKES NAVIGATION SYSTEM 85% of the commercial commodities transiting the Soo Locks are limited by size to the Poe Lock Aging and deteriorating infrastructure; unscheduled outages increasing There is currently no redundancy for the Poe Lock The economic impact of a 30-day unscheduled closure of the Soo Locks = $160M Two major efforts are underway to improve reliability of the Soo Locks 1. Maintain existing infrastructure through Asset Renewal Plan 2. New lock with the same dimensions as the Poe Lock Economic reevaluation required. 13

14 SOO LOCKS ASSET RENEWAL PLAN 14 Asset Renewal Plan will maximize reliability and reduce risk through $102M funded to date through FY /18 Work: MacArthur Lock Embedded Anchorages Steamplant Replacement Design Replace Stoplogs Poe Miter and Quoin Block Replacement West Center Pier Repair Remaining key priorities: Poe Lock Gate 1 Replacement Steamplant Replacement New heavy lift crane Poe Gate 4 anchorages Funding, $M FY08 FY10 FY12 FY14 FY16 FY18

15 Great Lakes Navigation System 15 The GL system s savings over the next least costly mode of transportation More competitive American steel Essential to sustaining U.S. auto industry Lower cost energy Lower cost concrete (construction) $3.6 Billion/year More competitive grain for export Less fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions Less congested highways/rails