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Moreover, the survey would help USACE-Omaha to better understand the
wintertime performance of riverbank stabilization structures that it recently
installed at a site in the Fort Peck reach and at other sites along downstream
reaches of the Missouri River. The insights would be of use in further design and
deployment of the methods.
The impetus for the survey also was provided by immediate concerns facing
farmers and small communities along the Fort Peck reach. Extensive riverbank
erosion along several portions of the reach continues to diminish productive
irrigated cropland along the river, and a high proportion of pump sites along the
reach experience sedimentation difficulties. A frequent remark by people living
along the reach is that the bank erosion and pump site sedimentation processes
are especially apparent in early spring when ice departs the reach. The survey
was an opportunity for USACE-Omaha to investigate the processes contributing
to these concerns.
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