United States Department of Transportation
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Abstract:The first section of this report contains a brief history of the development of and role played by the inland waterway transportation system. The role of this mode in international trade is examined, along with the competitive and complementary roles in a multimodal transportation system. The second section examines the funding of maintenance and investments in the system. The third section looks in greater detail at the waterway system in the context of the Nation's entire transportation system. Commodities carried and modal splits of traffic are examined to explain past performance and future needs. Issues affecting the priority given to navigation as a use of the river are examined in some detail in the fourth section, emphasizing the issues affecting perspective toward and practices in the river use. The fifth section examines the issue of
navigation improvements on the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway and the potential breaching of dams, with associated loss of navigation, on the Snake River section of the Columbia-Snake River system in the Pacific Northwest. Findings, critiques, and Corps approaches are evaluated in some detail.
The last two sections examine the impact on agriculture resulting from decreasing the priority of navigation in the use of the Nation's inland river systems, looking again at the typical studies on the Upper Mississippi-Illinois River enhancements and the Columbia-Snake operations. The chapter concludes by discussing alternatives for agriculture in its attempts to address some of the coming changes in a proactive manner.
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