dredging & coral spawning
Noah, Michael POJ
Michael.Noah at poj.usace.army.mil
Fri Apr 17 03:28:10 EDT 1998
Susan,
I'd check with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Waterways Experiment
Station (WES) in Vicksburg, Mississippi (USA). I don't have those
particular references with me here in Japan, but whatever I'd have would
have probably come out of WES anyway.
The Manager of the Environmental Effects of Dredging Program is:
Dr. Robert M. Engler
U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
ATTN: CEWES-EP-D
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199
His e-mail address is: englerr at ex1.wes.army.mil
<mailto:englerr at ex1.wes.army.mil> , or you can call him in the U.S. at
(601) 634-3624.
Mata ne,
Michael
<<...>>
US Army Corps
of Engineers
Japan District
Michael D. Noah, Ecologist DSN 263-5065 COMM
011-81-311-763-5065
Box 81 (CEPOJ-PP-E) DSN 263-8869 COMM
011-81-311-763-8869 FAX
APO AP 96338-5010
Michael.Noah at poj.usace.army.mil <mailto:Michael.Noah at poj.usace.army.mil>
-----Original Message-----
From: susan.burr at saipan.com
[mailto:susan.burr at saipan.com]
Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 12:28 PM
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: dredging & coral spawning
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island's (CNMI-
Saipan) Coastal
Resources Management office has a permit condition that
requires all
dredging operations to cease during and five days after
the yearly hard
coral spawning event. They have recently been asked by
a permittee to
provide scientific justification for this permit
condition. The dredging
operation in question is an archaeological excavation
that will be using a
suction dredger to remove sand and a clamshell dredger
to remove boulders.
The immediate site has approximately ten percent coral
cover and the
adjacent reef has 10-60 percent coral cover. The site
has a relatively
strong longshore current and wave action is high.
Does anyone know of any citations to justify or refute
this permit
condition? Is the CNMI's condition more or less
stringent than other
jurisdictions? Should dredging operations be required
to cease during the
soft coral spawning as well?
Thanks for everyone's help. You can reply directly to
me at
susan.burr at saipan.com.
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