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Enhancing Infrastructure: Lower Allegheny River Stakeholders Meeting Insights (June 15, 2006)

The Lower Allegheny River Stakeholders Meeting on June 15, 2006, brought together key personnel, including James R. McCarville and Mary Ann Bucci, to discuss critical infrastructure funding and maintenance challenges facing the river. Attendees highlighted successful stakeholder efforts in securing $62.3 million for the Lower Monongahela Improvement Program and emphasized the need for sustained operations and maintenance (O&M) funding amid rising personnel costs. The meeting concluded with a call to action for stakeholders to document potential consequences of lock failures and seek additional funding for maintenance of the Lower Allegheny River.

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Enhancing Infrastructure: Lower Allegheny River Stakeholders Meeting Insights (June 15, 2006)

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    1. Lower Allegheny River Stakeholders Meeting June 15, 2006

    2. Resource Personnel Port of Pittsburgh Commission James R. McCarville, Executive Director Mary Ann Bucci, Marketing Director Waterways Association of Pittsburgh Mark Devinney, Freeport Terminals and Nicholas Enterprises, Inc. USACE Col. Steve Hill, District Engineer Rich Lockwood, Director of Operations

    3. Success of Other PPC Stakeholder Efforts PPC stakeholders’ group for the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers (new construction) In the FY07 President’s budget and the House Appropriation bill, there is: $62.3M for the Lower Mon Improvement Program (New Construction) $17M for Emsworth Dam (Emergency Repairs) The House has added $1.3M for EDM study Coordination with Waterways Council, Inc

    4. Historical Problem Statement USACE’s O&M funding history for Locks and Dams over past 30 years Aging infrastructure requires more M, but Personnel costs have inflated, and O&M funding has been flat USACE rationed O&M funds to high use rivers (tons, ton-miles on river) Allegheny River has had little or no M over the past 10 years.

    5. Recent Events USACE-LRP has taken a serious reduction in force USACE-LRP and LRD have demonstrated leadership in promoting the need to consider “risk and reliability” factors in allocating maintenance funds

    6. FY08 Guidelines USACE is expanding the criteria to: “Must-have” basic service maintenance Tons, ton-mile and average cost/ton-mile Refuge, safety and security Research and Development Risk and Reliability Consequences (if maintenance is not done) THIS IS THE AREA THE STAKEHOLDERS CAN HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT

    7. Next Steps After reviewing the condition of Allegheny Lock 2, CW Bill Young and Lock 4 Document what would be the consequences if any of these locks were out for an extended period of time Determine if this group wants to be active in seeking additional funding for the maintenance of the Lower Allegheny

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