USACE Anacostia River dock upgrades enhance environmental rehabilitation

David Smith, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, crane operator, navigates past construction modifications of the District’s DC Drift field office docks alongside the Anacostia River on Jan 18, 2022. The docks will house the newly arriving NACOTCHTANK Floating Crane in the District of Columbia. The District’s DC Drift Program will continually protect environmental habitat, improve water quality and aesthetics, and expand public access within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. (U.S. Army photo by Greg Nash)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District’s DC Drift Program personnel oversee local contractors constructing a berthing slip for the NACOTCHTANK Floating Crane alongside the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia, Jan. 18, 2022. The program conducts drift removal operations year-round, which benefits navigation efforts by reducing damages, financial loss, and safety hazards to commercial and recreational vessels, operators, and docking facilities. (U.S. Army photo by Greg Nash)

Chuck Hire, a Marine Technologies, Inc. pilings supervisor, radios for assistance during construction modifications of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District’s, DC Drift field office dock’s alongside the Anacostia River, Jan 18, 2022. The upgrades will allow ample parking space to accommodate the newly arriving NACOTCHTANK Floating Crane. The NACOTCHTANK, affectionately named after the semi-agrarian band of Algonquian tribe members who lived at the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers confluence for over 1,000 years, is an 85-foot crane barge equipped with a 15-ton crane. (U.S. Army photo by Greg Nash)

Marine Technologies, Inc., contractors strategize maneuvers during construction modifications of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District’s, DC Drift field office docks alongside the Anacostia River, Jan 18, 2022. The DC Drift Program planned rehabilitation and modification of the mooring piers in the Anacostia River at the USACE DC Drift field office dock to accommodate the new NACOTCHTANK Floating Crane that will aid in the offloading of debris collected by the DC Drift Program vessels. (U.S. Army photo by Greg Nash)

A crane mounts a hydraulic vibration hammer onto a steel piling that will make way for a new berthing slip to accommodate the newly arriving NACOTCHTANK Floating Crane alongside the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia, Jan. 18, 2022. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District’s, DC Drift field office manages the Drift Program’s debris removal efforts, whose area of operation spans 27 miles long with an area of approximately 16 square miles. USACE boat operators conduct routine debris patrols and respond to debris calls received from the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, boat and marina operators, and private citizens. (U.S. Army photo by Greg Nash)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, biologists conduct water turbidity testing while local contractors perform construction modifications on the District’s DC Drift field office dock’s alongside the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia, Jan. 13, 2022. The District’s DC Drift field office manages a portion of the river’s debris removal efforts, spanning 27-miles long with an area of approximately 16 square miles. USACE boat operators conduct routine debris patrols and respond to debris calls from the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, boat and marina operators, and private citizens. (Courtesy photo)