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DOTS Responses
The ERDC Dredging Operations Technical Support Program (DOTS) provides environmental and engineering technical support to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Operations and Maintenance navigation and dredging missions through DOTS Requests and other activities. Technology transfer products and activities support diverse field needs that directly benefit navigation and dredging operations throughout the United States.
All DOTS responses are documented to summarize the technical activities performed, deliverables completed, and benefits of the response to the Dredging /Navigation program(s).
| District | Title | DOTS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vicksburg | Red River Lock 1 Shoaling Ben Emery | DOTS 21-R01 | 2021 |
| Wilmington | GenCade Training for SAW | DOTS 21-R02 | 2021 |
| St. Paul | MVP – Strategic Navigation Vision Ben Emery | DOTS 21-R10 | 2021 |
| Galveston | Placement of Navigation Dredged Material on Babe’s Beach Galveston, Texas | DOTS 21-R13 | 2021 |
| Norfolk | Balazik Review of Restrictive Dredging Window for NAO | DOTS 21-R15 | 2021 |
| New York | STFATE Model Runs for NWS Earle Phase II - Areas B1, B2 and C1 | DOTS 21-R18 | 2021 |
| St. Paul | Dredged Sediment Amendments to Improve Floodplain Cropland Productivity | DOTS 21-R19 | 2021 |
| Jacksonville | Training and Field Demonstration of Chirp Sub-Bottom Imagery for the USACE Jacksonville District | DOTS 21-R33 | 2021 |
| Detroit | Technical Support for Gay, MI Stamp Sands Dredging Feasibility Study | DOTS 21-R35 | 2021 |
| Galveston | Houston Ship Channel Improvement Project (HSCIP): A Cost Effective and Technically Defensible Sampling Strategy for a 43 Mile-Long Study Area | DOTS 21-R37 | 2021 |
| New York | STFATE Model Runs for East River Dredged Material Placement at HARS for CENAN | DOTS 21-R46 | 2021 |
| Galveston | Galveston District Pipeline Policy Review | DOTS 21-R56 | 2021 |
| Alaska | Mound Prediction for Petersburg Harbor Dredged Material Placement at Frederick Sound Disposal Site | DOTS 21-R57 | 2021 |
| Jacksonville | Placement of Navigation Dredged Material | DOTS 21-R58 | 2021 |
| Galveston | Estimation of Corpus Christi Inner Harbor Ship Channel Dredged Material Bulking Factor for SWG | DOTS 21-R59 | 2021 |
| San Francisco | Develop CMS Model to Support DMMP in Crescent City Harbor for SPN | DOTS 21-R60 | 2021 |
| Wilmington | USACE Coastal Modeling System (CMS) Training and Hands-on Engagement for Stono Inlet Study | DOTS 20-R02 | 2020 |
| Chicago | Confined Disposal Facility (CDF) Plant Uptake of Contaminates Literature Review | DOTS 20-R05 | 2020 |
| Rock Island | Lake Red Rock Bedload Interception for Reservoir Sustainability and Commercial Soil Manufacturing | DOTS 20-R09 | 2020 |
| Chicago | Viable Commercial Mixture for Making a Marketable Engineered Soil | DOTS 20-R11 | 2020 |
| Galveston | Framework Development to Assess Resilience Management of Coastal Infrastructure for SWG | DOTS 20-R15 | 2020 |
| New England | NAE - BEST Model for Dredge Material Evaluations Meeting | DOTS 20-R16 | 2020 |
| Jacksonville | Using Satellite Imagery to Analyze Environmental Impacts from Dredging | DOTS 20-R17 | 2020 |
| Detroit | Preliminary Assessment of Underwater Blasting Impacts to Fishes Near the Soo Locks | DOTS 20-R18 | 2020 |
| St. Paul | Attend Upper Mississippi River Basin Association Meeting | DOTS 20-R20 | 2020 |
| Jacksonville | Sediment Thickness Report Review for Port Everglades | DOTS 20-R21 | 2020 |
| Jacksonville | Reducing Sedimentation Impacts on Aquatic Resources near Port Everglades | DOTS 20-R22 | 2020 |
| Chicago | Beneficial Use of Stockpiles Dredged Material Calumet Harbor | DOTS 20-R24 | 2020 |
| Norfolk | Assessment of Potential Impacts of Sacrificial Zinc Anodes to Adjacent Oyster Reefs | DOTS 20-R26 | 2020 |
| New Orleans | Calcasieu River Shoaling Analysis | DOTS 20-R27 | 2020 |
| New York | STFATE Application Buttermilk Channel for NAN | DOTS 20-R28 | 2020 |
| St. Louis | PIANC Working with Nature Madeira River Navigation Improvement Planning Study | DOTS 20-R29 | 2020 |
| Wilmington | Evaluation and Potential Removal of Dredge Restrictions Currently Imposed on the Wilmington District | DOTS 20-R30 | 2020 |
| St. Louis | Arecibo Sand Bar Sampling C. Jared McKnight and Anthony Emiren | DOTS 20-R31 | 2020 |
| New York | STFATE Application Con Edison Reach for NAN | DOTS 20-R33 | 2020 |
| Buffalo | Evaluation of Contaminant Data in Support of Proposed Habitat Restoration Project in a Maumee River CDF | DOTS 20-R34 | 2020 |
| Buffalo | Incorporating Vegetation Data into GSMB Modeling for the Ashtabula Harbor Beneficial Use Project | DOTS 20-R35 | 2020 |
| San Francisco | Dredging with Munitions | DOTS 20-R39 | 2020 |
| Detroit | Stable Isotope Sample Prep Training for the USACE Detroit District | DOTS 20-R40 | 2020 |
| St. Paul | St. Paul District Dredge Material Management Plan (DMMP) After Action Review | DOTS 20-R41 | 2020 |
| Omaha | Use of Chirp Sub-Bottom Acoustics to Recreate Lost Reservoir Pre-Impoundment Bathymetry Surveys | DOTS 20-R42 | 2020 |
| Philadelphia | Quick Assessment of Wind-Waves for the Mordecai Island, New Jersey Vicinity | DOTS 19-R01 | 2019 |
| Jacksonville | Monitoring Plan Port Everglades Deepening Project | DOTS 19-R02 | 2019 |
| Galveston | A Preliminary Analysis of Ship Domain Violations and Vessel Bank Interactions in the Houston Ship Channel | DOTS 19-R03 | 2019 |
| St. Louis | Historic Vessel Position Data near St. Louis District Lock and Dam Structures | DOTS 19-R05 | 2019 |
| St. Louis | Joint Workshop on AIS Analysis Package (AISAP) and Lock Operations Management Application (LOMA) | DOTS 19-R06 | 2019 |
| Philadelphia | Review of Fort Mifflin CDF Operations | DOTS 19-R07 | 2019 |
| Mobile | Engineering Analysis for the Alabama Coastal Conference | DOTS 19-R08 | 2019 |
| Los Angeles | San Clemente Argus Station Installation | DOTS 19-R09 | 2019 |
| Jacksonville | Water Quality and Sediment Monitoring for the Port Everglades Deepening Project | DOTS 19-R10 | 2019 |
| Detroit | Review of PCB data and analytical techniques for the Clinton River AOC | DOTS 19-R11 | 2019 |
| New York | STFATE Modeling of Transco Project | DOTS 19-R12 | 2019 |
| Galveston | Coastal Texas Navigation Feasibility Study | DOTS 19-R13 | 2019 |
| Galveston | Gulf of Mexico Sediment Source Identification for Texas Coastal Storm Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration (SWG) | DOTS 19-R14 | 2019 |
| Philadelphia | Sub-Bottom Data Collection and Validation Strategies – NAP | DOTS 19-R15 | 2019 |
| Portland | Tacoma Harbor, WA Ship Simulation Study | DOTS 19-R16 | 2019 |
| Detroit | CHL Dickhudt Collect Sedimentation Data in Lexington Harbor for LRE | DOTS 19-R17 | 2019 |
| Little Rock | MKARNS Support for SWL | DOTS 19-R19 | 2019 |
| Rock Island | Reservoir Sedimentation Analysis – MVR | DOTS 19-R20 | 2019 |
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles Breakwater Repair Project- Acoustic Signatures Generated due to Boulder Placement | DOTS 19-R22 | 2019 |
| Jacksonville | G2CRM Training in Savannah | DOTS 19-R23 | 2019 |
| Seattle | Invited Presentation to the USACE’s Seattle District 2019 Sediment Management Annual Review Meeting | DOTS 19-R24 | 2019 |
| Jacksonville | Miami Harbor Navigation Improvements Study | DOTS 19-R25 | 2019 |
| Detroit | Sediment Tracer Study in Lexington Harbor For Detroit District | DOTS 19-R26 | 2019 |
| Norfolk | MPFATE Training for Norfolk District | DOTS 19-R29 | 2019 |
| St. Louis | Optimizing AIS Data Collection for the MVS District | DOTS 19-R30 | 2019 |
| Mobile | Hydro-MEM Coordination Meeting for SAM | DOTS 19-R31 | 2019 |
| New York | Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels and Perth Amboy Anchorage | DOTS 19-R32 | 2019 |
| New Orleans | TES Protective Measures for New Dredge Type for CE New Orleans District | DOTS 19-R33 | 2019 |
| New York | Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Raritan River | DOTS 19-R35 | 2019 |
| Portland | Monitoring of Tainter Valve Strain Sensors at The Dalles Lock & Dam | DOTS 19-R36 | 2019 |
| Philadelphia | Surveying Nautical Bottom and Submerged Buried Pipelines Presentations | DOTS 19-R37 | 2019 |
| Jacksonville | Expanding Potential Sand Sources for Shore Protection Projects | DOTS 19-R38 | 2019 |
| Portland | D2M2 Implementation for NWP | DOTS 19-R40 | 2019 |
| Galveston | SWG; Colorado River Erosion Assessment and Recommendations | DOTS 19-R41 | 2019 |
| Galveston | Strategies for Evaluating NNBF Shoreline Protection Technologies along the Intracoastal Waterway | DOTS 19-R42 | 2019 |
| Great Lakes | Monthly Lock to Lock Traffic Connectivity to Support Maintenance Scheduling | DOTS 19-R43 | 2019 |
| Savannah | Brunswick Harbor, GA Ship Simulation Study | DOTS 19-R47 | 2019 |
| New York | Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels and Perth Amboy Anchorage | DOTS 19-R48 | 2019 |
| New England | Subject Matter Expert Consultations on Sea Turtle Cold-Stunned Issues for CE New England District | DOTS 19-R21 | 2019 |
| New England | Subject Matter Expert Consultations on Sea Turtle Cold-Stunned Issues for CE New England District | DOTS 19-R46 | 2019 |
| Galveston | A Preliminary Analysis of Ship Domain Violations and Vessel Bank Interactions in the Houston Ship Channel | DOTS 19-R03 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Coastal Texas Navigation Feasibility Study | DOTS 19-R13 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Gulf of Mexico Sediment Source Identification for Texas Coastal Storm Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration (SWG) | DOTS 19-R14 | 2018 |
| Little Rock | MKARNS Support for SWL | DOTS 19-R19 | 2018 |
| Los Angeles | Los Angeles Breakwater Repair Project- Acoustic Signatures Generated due to Boulder Placement | DOTS 19-R22 | 2018 |
| Portland | D2M2 Implementation for NWP | DOTS 19-R40 | 2018 |
| Galveston | SWG; Colorado River Erosion Assessment and Recommendations | DOTS 19-R41 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Strategies for Evaluating NNBF Shoreline Protection Technologies along the Intracoastal Waterway | DOTS 19-R42 | 2018 |
| Los Angeles | Port Hueneme Underwater CDF and Cap Design | DOTS 18-R01 | 2018 |
| Pittsburgh | Corrosion Monitoring Plan for Emergency Bulkheads at Emsworth Lock and Dam | DOTS 18-R11 | 2018 |
| Portland | Eagle Creek Fire Sedimentation | DOTS 18-R12 | 2018 |
| Honolulu | Exploring the Applicability of Novel Source to Sink Methodologies to Reduce Shoaling in Harbors | DOTS 18-R13 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Towing Vessel Delays and Barge Lane Navigability along the Houston Ship Channel | DOTS 18-R14 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Sediment Budgets and Sediment Budget Analysis System (SBAS) Training Workshop | DOTS 18-R15 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Coastal Modeling System (CMS), Particle Tracking Model (PTM), and GenCade Workshop | DOTS 18-R16 | 2018 |
| Rock Island | Illinois Waterway Soil Manufacturing Investigations | DOTS 18-R17 | 2018 |
| Little Rock | Three Rivers, Arkansas Ship Stimulation Study | DOTS 18-R18 | 2018 |
| Philadelphia | Vessel Management System Replacement for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal | DOTS 18-R19 | 2018 |
| Norfolk | Scope of Work for Life Cycle Analysis Task for Update to Craney Island Management Plan | DOTS 18-R02 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Train LRE Personnel on Use of RECOVERY/CAP Model for Designing Caps in Duluth Harbor | DOTS 18-R20 | 2018 |
| Charleston | Downdraft Analysis Devidue Island, SC | DOTS 18-R21 | 2018 |
| St. Louis | Adaptive Hydraulics (AdH) and SEDLIB Modeling of St. Louis Harbor | DOTS 18-R22 | 2018 |
| Philadelphia | Port of Wilmington Navigation Feasibility Study | DOTS 18-R23 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Seminar on the use of Radar Inlet Observing System (RIOS) technology and application for Design and Operations Branch within USACE-LRE | DOTS 18-R24 | 2018 |
| New York | Water Column Evaluation for Open Water Placement of Dredged Material from Wards Point | DOTS 18-R25 | 2018 |
| Buffalo | Review of "Cleveland Harbor (Upper Cuyahoga River Channel) Dredged Sediment Evaluation-2018" | DOTS 18-R26 | 2018 |
| Kansas City | Training and Support to Utilize the Particle Tracking Model to Study Interception Rearing Complexes for Endangered Pallid Sturgeon within the Missouri River | DOTS 18-R27 | 2018 |
| Portland | Columbia River Channel Maintenance Plan and EOS | DOTS 18-R28 | 2018 |
| Omaha | Quantifying Annual Values of Upper Mississippi Cargo Flows | DOTS 18-R29 | 2018 |
| New England | New Haven Harbor Navigation Improvement Study | DOTS 18-R03 | 2018 |
| South Atlantic Division | SAD Regional Biological Opinion for Corals | DOTS 18-R30 | 2018 |
| New Orleans | Slurry Density and Velocity Accuracy Calculations for MVN | DOTS 18-R31 | 2018 |
| Los Angeles | An evaluation of the application of "consensus based" PCB TEC in dredged material evaluations. | DOTS 18-R04 | 2018 |
| New Orleans | Harvey Lock Terrestrial LiDAR Survey | DOTS 18-R05 | 2018 |
| Louisville | System Evaluation and Trunnion Rod Defect Testing at the Dalles Dam | DOTS 18-R06 | 2018 |
| Sacramento | Dredging Placement Plan for Delta Islands and Levees Feasibility Study | DOTS 18-R07 | 2018 |
| Portland | CHL AdH/SMS/SEDLIB Workshop for NWP | DOTS 18-R08 | 2018 |
| Baltimore | Coastal Storm (CSTORM) Modeling System Workshop | DOTS 18-R09 | 2018 |
| Buffalo | Overall trends and variability in bioaccumulation test results from Cleveland Harbor dredged sediment evaluations | DOTS 18-R33 | 2018 |
| Chicago | Potential Impacts on Proposed Bubbly Creek Project due to Contamination at Depth | DOTS 18-R34 | 2018 |
| Los Angeles | Definition of Dredging | DOTS 18-R35 | 2018 |
| Seattle | Integration of Sea level Change Curve into Long-term Simulations with the Coastal Modeling System | DOTS 18-R36 | 2018 |
| Honolulu | Training and Setup of FUNWAVE Boussinesq Model for Navigation Projects | DOTS 18-R37 | 2018 |
| Honolulu | Mitigating Sea Turtle Take during 2019 Dredging in Honolulu Harbor | DOTS 18-R38 | 2018 |
| Little Rock | Arkansas River Navigation Mile 222 Sedimentation | DOTS 18-R39 | 2018 |
| St. Louis | Peoria Lakes Comprehensive Conservation Plan; Including Beneficial Use of Navigation Dredging | DOTS 18-R41 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Sediment Transport Model in St. Clair River Training | DOTS 18-R42 | 2018 |
| Portland | Habitat Creation Options in Lower Columbia River | DOTS 18-R43 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Pursuing Public Private Partnerships for Engineering With Nature® Projects in Western Lake Michigan) | DOTS 18-R44 | 2018 |
| Los Angeles | Coastal Processes Workshop for USACE Los Angeles District & Caltrans | DOTS 18-R45 | 2018 |
| Portland | North Head Argus Tower Collaboration and Tool Coordination | DOTS 18-R46 | 2018 |
| Louisville | Dog Patrol to Control Nuisance Birds at CELRL Lock and Dams | DOTS 18-R47 | 2018 |
| Honolulu | Analysis of Dredge Essayons Turtle Deflector Approach Angles, Inflow Screening, and Use of Turtle Tickler Chains | DOTS 18-R48 | 2018 |
| New England | Evaluating Risk and Resilience in Engineering with Nature Projects | DOTS 18-R49 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Applicability of Coarse-Grained Black Carbon as a Sediment-Lag Tracer: Au Sable River, MI | DOTS 18-R50 | 2018 |
| Galveston | GIS Support for Barrier Island Parameters: Coastal Breaching Index | DOTS 18-R51 | 2018 |
| Jacksonville | Review of Bubble Screens for Turbidity Control Associated with Dredging Projects | DOTS 18-R52 | 2018 |
| Albuquerque | Determination of Applicability of the ISSDOTv2 Bed-load Method to Rio Grande Bed Sediments | DOTS 18-R53 | 2018 |
| New York | STFATE Model Runs for Evaluating Placement for American Sugars, Reach 1 and Reach 2 | DOTS 18-R54 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Shallow Chirp Geophysical Survey of sediment thickness of the St. Clair River Delta, MI | DOTS 18-R55 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Environmental Windows in Duluth Harbor, MN, USA | DOTS 18-R56 | 2018 |
| Philadelphia | Ocean-Certified Dredge | DOTS 18-R57 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Incorporating Engineering With Nature® Principles in River Training Structures on the Mississippi River | DOTS 18-R58 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Shoaling Analysis using CSAT (Corps Shoaling Analysis Tool) | DOTS 18-R60 | 2018 |
| Norfolk | Develop Scope of Work to Perform Modeling Efforts Supporting Norfolk Harbor Deepening | DOTS 18-R61 | 2018 |
| New York | MCDA for Champlain Canal | DOTS 18-R62 | 2018 |
| New England | UAS Monitored Sandbridge Beach Evolution During the 2018 Hurricane Season | DOTS 18-R63 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Hydrodynamic Sediment Transport Gay Stamps Sands for LRE | DOTS 18-R64 | 2018 |
| Detroit | Port Huron Unmanned Aircraft System Data Collection and Technology Demonstration | DOTS 18-R65 | 2018 |
| Alaska | Port of Nome Modification Feasibility Study | DOTS 18-R66 | 2018 |
| Jacksonville | Environmental Monitoring Design to Support the Port Everglades Navigational Improvements Project | DOTS 18-R67 | 2018 |
| St. Louis | Incorporating Engineering With Nature® Principles in River Training Structures on the Mississippi River | DOTS 18-R68 | 2018 |
| Jacksonville | Mini-Argus Installation for Nearshore Berm Placement At New Smyrna Beach, FL | DOTS 18-R70 | 2018 |
| Norfolk | Environmental Monitoring of Benthic and Fish Resources at the Sandbridge Shoal, VA. | DOTS 18-R71 | 2018 |
| Buffalo | Chirp Geophysical Survey: Ogdensburg Harbor, NY | DOTS 18-R72 | 2018 |
| Galveston | Matagorda Entrance Channel Ship Simulation Study | DOTS 18-R74 | 2018 |