Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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Evaluation & Prioritization of Erosion Control Projects at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Edinburgh IN.

Daniel Gambill, University of Illinois, 2902 Newmark Drive, Champaign, IL 61822, Heidi Howard, ERDC-CERL, 2902 Newmark Drive, Champaign, IL 61822, Niels Svendsen, US Army Corps of Engineers, PO Box 9005, Champaign, IL 61826-9005, and Bradley Schneck, Camp Atterbury, #1 Hospital Road, Edinburg, IN 46124.

Severe landscape erosion on military training lands can cause streambank degradation, increased sediment loads, decreased water quality, wildlife habitat degradation, and unsafe training areas. In order to identify and fix such erosion problems, a base-wide assessment of erosion at Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center (CAJMTC) near Edinburgh, Indiana examined actively eroding areas with the capability of impacting training, water quality, and threatened and endangered species (TES) habitat. The 33,760–acre installation was evaluated using a multitude of electronic tools, current and historic aerial photos, and field surveys. The project objectives included determining the best suited tools for evaluation and ranking sites in need of land rehabilitation or maintenance; develop a ranking of sites in need of rehabilitation where rankings are based on the extent of erosion, the potential of the site for successful rehabilitation, and the potential of the site to impact training, water quality, and/or TES habitat; provide recommendations to CAJMTC for potential rehabilitation methods; and provide CAJMTC with guidelines for 401 and 404 permitting requirements of construction activities within the state of Indiana. Planning, designs, and lessons learned from a streambank stabilization field demonstration are also included. Knowledge gained from the field demonstration will be used to more effectively and efficiently design and complete similar erosion control projects.