Figure 3. Cutterhead positioning of Mobile District dredging project (courtesy of Mike Hooks Dredging)

Technical Note DOER-I1

July 1999 (Revised April 2000)

simultaneously on VGA color monitors located in the lever room of the dredge and the inspector's

office, so that the inspector can easily monitor cutterhead and dredge locations.

Throughout the assignment, data and positioning information are logged to a diskette, which is

turned in to the Corps at the end of each assignment. For any time interval, data on dredge advance

and arc of swing within the channel are made available as screen printouts whenever requested by

the inspector.

On the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and the Apalachicola,

Chattahoochee, and Flint rivers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, the automated dredge positioning

requirements are similar to those previously described. However, no monitor in the inspector's