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Dredging Quality Management Program (DQM)

Operations & Dredging Endangered Species System Program (ODESS)

Michael SessionsODESS Program Manager

USACE Mobile District

2018 Galveston District Annual Dredging Meeting

November 8th, 2018

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Overview

Program Status

Future Objectives

DQM Talking Points

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Document Dredging Activities

Why Monitor Dredge Operations

Where digging? How deep?

Making progress?

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Why Monitor Dredge Operations

Track historical usage/trends

Document environmentalcompliance

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What is DQM?

Dredging Quality Management (DQM)

National Program - Mobile District

Develops Automated Dredge Monitoring Products Supporting the USACE

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DQM Data Workflow

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Scow – Monitoring, Ullage

Dredges Monitored & Typical Instrumentation

TelemetryDGPS –Position (Lat/Long), Course, Heading Speed, Time, Drag/Suction-Head positionDrag/Suction-Head Depth

Slurry Velocity, Density, & Pump RPM

Fore and Aft Draft ->Displacement

Fore and Aft Ullage ->Volume

Hull Status

Hopper Dredge

Hydraulic Cutter/Dustpan

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Positioning SystemOpen/Close sensorDraft sensorsUllage sensorsDrag head depth sensorDensity MeterVelocity MeterPump RPM’s Computer

Corps Softwarereceives the data string

Telemetry system

Date and Time Vessel Longitude & Latitude Draghead Longitude & Latitude Dredge Course Dredge Speed Dredge Heading Hull Status Load Number Tide (Vertical Correction) Fore and Aft Draft Fore and Aft UllageHopper Volume Displacement Empty Displacement Draghead Depths Slurry Density in DragarmsSlurry Velocity in DragarmsPump RPM Minimum Pump Effort Pumping Water Material Recovery Pumpout

Hopper Dredge Instrumentation vs. Data Parameters Transmitted

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Scow Monitoring Profiles

Profiles

Monitoring Position,

Open/Closed Draft

Ullage Adds Ullage

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Pipeline Implementation

HQ Implementation Guidance April 2014

Government Plant Pilot Monitoring 2015-2017

Final Spec Versions

FY18 Private Pipeline Monitoring (SBA Exempt, Required on all Unrestricted projects)

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DQM & Pipeline: When Req’d

DQM required on 'Unrestricted' contracts only Independent of dredge sizeRestrictive contracts are exempt

However, if a small business, 8a, etc. bids on an unrestrictive contract, then they must meet what the DQM spec requires.

More details can be found on the DQM Public Website:https://dqm.usace.army.mil/Bulletin.aspx?id=22

https://dqm.usace.army.mil/Bulletin.aspx?id=22

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New DQM 3.0 Viewer

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Data Analysis

User Generated ReportsSingle and Multi-load Disposal and Dredge Plots

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Data AnalysisDQM Generated Reports

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Port of Anchorage Intensity Study

Data Rollup

Non-effective Pipeline Determination

Hopper Dredge Utilization AnalysisNAE Disposal Area Usage

BOEM Intensity and Exposure Characterization Algorithm

Special Analyses

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Districts Using DQM

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DQM Plant Data Count & Access

# Plants Plant Type Ownership5 Hopper Government5 Pipeline Government15 Hopper Industry7 >> # will grow Pipeline Industry 219 Scow Industry

Currently there are (524) users with access to our DQM Viewer

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Program Status

Since Last Year:Government Pipeline MonitoringPipeline Viewer ReleasedExternal Contractor Viewer AccessDredge Intensity ModelCycle Logic Revision Initiated Going to the Cloud

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Future Objectives

Continue Private Pipeline Monitoring & Pipeline Data Analysis

New Customers/More Customer Service

Cloud Database/Server Environment

Technical Advancements Machine Learning, Browser Independent, Mobile

Development

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DQM Annual GoalsIntegrate

Customer Input in Tool Scoping

Improve the Timeliness of

the Data

Improve Customer Support

Improve the Dependability of the System

Improve Partnership with Industry

Improve Quality of the

Data

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Overview

Products

Highlights/Future Development

Recent Implementation

ODESS Talking Points

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Current Products

Field Data Collector

Intranet WebSite

Public Website

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ODESS PROJECT DETAILS

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Guidance/Training

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Highlights/Future Dev To date, ODESS confirmed on (10) hopper dredges with (3) different

dredging contractors. (2) Government Dredges. Mason: Bayport, Newport, Glenn Edwards Dutra: Columbia, Stuyvesant GLDD: Dodge Island, Padre Island, Liberty Island, Ellis

Island, Terrapin Island Government Dredges: McFarland, Wheeler

ODESS trawling/mobile development (In Progress)

Update to ODESS production products (In Progress)

ODESS environments in the Azure Cloud (In Progress)

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RECENT ODESS IMPLEMENTATION

ON THE MCFARLAND

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ODESS ON THE MCFARLAND

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http://dqm.usace.army.mil/odess

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Thanks Galveston District…. for a great meetingand being a wonderful host!

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