ICW Alliance Making Headway

Boat/US Magazine, Nov, 2000

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed its first comprehensive survey of one important segment of the Atlantic Intra-coastal Waterway this fall. The four-month hydrographic survey of 160 miles from Port Royal Sound, SC, to Fernandina Beach, FL, will allow the Corps to make better use of limited dredging dollars. In addition, the survey gives a coalition of recreational boaters and commercial interests valuable information to make its case to Congress for added funding to revitalize the waterway.

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA) an alliance of commercial shippers, port authorities, dredging contractors and recreational boaters, has been pressing the Corps to detail chronic shoaling conditions and document other maintenance needs along the Atlantic ICW, from Norfolk, VA, to Miami, FL

BoatU.S. is a charter member of AIWA which will hold its second annual conference in Charleston, SC, Nov. 16 and 17. ICW boaters can report shoaling and other problems online to the association's "ICW User Condition Report" through the Government Affairs page at BoatUS.com.