1. US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG ® St. Louis District Dredging Lance Engle Dredging Project Manager St. Louis District WEDA – Midwest 2012

2. Agenda Maintenance Dredging –District / Mission –Floating Plant –2011 / 2012 Dredging –Other Marine Work

3. St. District 3 Illinois River Missouri River Mississippi River St. Louis Confluence of Missouri and Mississippi Rivers Kaskaskia River SEMO Port

4. 4 Channel Patrol M/V PATHFINDER Multi Mission: Channel Recon, Survey, Buoy Positioning, Towing & L&D Repair

5. BUILDING STRONG ® Survey Boats 2 - AE Contracts 4 – Gov.’t < 26-ft

6. 6 Dredge Potter. 32 Inch diesel-electric dustpan dredge.2011 New Texas Deck, Pump, ICMS 800 feet of fixed discharge pipeline, 2400 feet of floating pipeline. Season July thru December.

7. 7 Dredge Potter Flexible Pipeline.

8. Cutterhead Dredge Contract 8 24” Cutterhead with 3000-ft of pipeline. Season July thru December. 4 th year of 5 year contract.

9. BUILDING STRONG ® 2011 Dredge Season - Stats Dredge# JobsCubic YardsDates Potter313.5M 9/4-12/16 America111.3M7/8-8/24 10/6-10/31 Total424.8M

10. BUILDING STRONG ® Dredging 2012  Low flood risk ► Potential for less dredging requirement in Pools. ► Lower (Middle Miss) potential for low water & more dredging.  Funding ► FY 12 flat for Upper, Lower & ILW; Kaskaskia and SEMO none. ► Supplemental Funding for Upper, Lower, Kaskaskia and SEMO.

11. BUILDING STRONG ® Future Marine Work  Environmental Dredging Carlyle Lake & Kaskaskia River- IDIQ contract for small cutterhead & mechanical dredging equipment. Closes 4 June.  Lock & Dam 25 - Downstream Main Lock Scour Repairs, Phase II. Closes 11 May.  Lock & Dam 24 – Scour Repair – tbd, 4 th Quarter.  O&M & New Dike Contracts- typically issued Jan. ► FY13 budget is healthy.  Rock Removal FY14 – Thebes to Commerce

12. BUILDING STRONG ® Rock Removal Update Current Status Rock Grinding contract unsuccessful. (Phases 2–4) only removed 20 cu yds out of 6,700 cu yds. Path Forward Evaluated alt. methods (boring, saw cutting, etc.) Concluded that nothing will work except for blasting. Budget request for FY14 (blasting) New AIS data will be used to determine tow tracks. Pinnacles and rock outcrops are shown as obstruction areas in the IENC. Trigger (10-ft Cape Girardeau and falling) Coordinate with USCG and RIAC, issue Navigation Notice. Rock pinnacles will begin effecting 9 ft draft barge traffic at a stage of 8.2 Cape Girardeau.

13. BUILDING STRONG ® The End