Development of a Long-Term Maintenance Plan

FIGURE 8-6. Backlog cif Maintenance Example Leaking Dam Head Gate. Courtesy cff U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

O M and major rehabilitation programs are unable to adequately fund maintenance activities to ensure the navigation system operates at an acceptable level of performance. The backlog of maintenance contains maintenance, repair, and improvement needs for area infrastructure and projects. This type of list benefits the owner and the user by better identifying and documenting required work, ranking the work in order of critical priorities. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) created a Product Delivery Team (PDT) in 1996 to address this problem regionally for the entire Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway Locks and Dams systems. The regional approach should help improve inconsistencies and inefficiencies in addressing infrastructure concerns. The MVD Regional Backlog of Maintenance was valued at more than 1.29 billion in 2007 (USAGE 2007). 

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Development of a long-term maintenance plan Development of and revising the backlog of maintenance list or capital improvement list. 

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