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The recent release of the "Infrastructure Report Card" by the American Society of Civil Engineers saw the inland waterways category bumped up to D+ from a straight D for the last report card, in 2017, and from a D- in the one before that. "The latest report card does recognize that we've been doing better," said Tom Heinold, chief of operations for the Hock Island Engineer District. The report card praises the opening of Olmsted Lock and Dam, which hap- pened since the last report card. But it notes, ""[T]he [Corps] lacks a definition of deferred maintenance, and as a result there are different estimates of how much deferred maintenance exists on the system. The USACE backlog of authorized projects that are waiting for appropriations funding is $6.8 billion. The agency reports a navigation backlog of $2.7 billion annually in unmet maintenance work activities." |