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This webinar was co-sponsored by ASCE's Coastal, Oceans, Ports & Rivers Institute and ASCE Continuing Education

Instructor:  William H. McAnally, Ph.D., P.E., D. NE, F.ASCE

Course Length: 1.5 Hours

Purpose and Background

Navigation channels are the arteries through which economic prosperity flows, providing access to deep draft ships in coastal channels and shallow draft tows in inland waterways. In the U.S., 90 percent of import/export trade travels by ship and 26,000 miles of navigation channels serve thousands of ports and terminals from New York to Mobile to Seattle and as far inland as Lewiston, Idaho, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Channels must be wide and deep enough to safely accommodate vessel traffic, yet not so large as to require excessive dredging or habitat modification. Maintenance dredging is a major cost item and significant environmental impediment, imposing limits on existing navigation projects and sometimes prohibiting new projects. Knowledge of sediment management measures other than dredging is an essential element of navigation engineering practice.

This webinar is one in a series designed by the COPRI Waterways Committee’s Navigation Engineering Task Committee. The series presents an overarching picture of Navigation Engineering practice and principles and is tied to a similar series of ASCE Manuals of Practice.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Review some basic sediment transport concepts
• Apply a systematic approach to managing navigation project sedimentation
• Obtain knowledge of some common structural and non-structural measures to reduce sedimentation issues in navigation facilities
• Identify what tools are available to design sediment management measures for navigation
• Non-engineers can follow the material if they have completed the Introduction to Navigation Engineering Webinar

Webinar Benefits

• Learn the 3 principles and 7 Strategies for solving sedimentation problems
• Non-engineers can follow the material if they have completed the Introduction to Navigation Engineering Webinar
• Examine – Typical sedimentation problems faced by port and waterway managers and how they are solved
• Learn how to evaluate the possible effects of sediment management, including criteria from Clean Water Act
• Explore – Case studies of successful sediment management approaches from around the world

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

The webinar is useful to those who work in the private sector, engineers in the Corps of Engineers and other government agencies involved with navigation, and also to those who advise these organizations, such as attorneys. The discussion is technical, involving simple to complex equations.

Webinar Outline

• Introduction and Overview
• Review Sedimentation Basics
• Typical Port and Channel Sediment Problems
• Sediment Management Methods
• Evaluating Sediment Management

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]