The St. Marys River - Little Rapids Cut Ice Boom: Winter of 1983-1984

• Other Authors: CORPS OF ENGINEERS DETROIT MI DETROIT DISTRICT
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1984
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Marine Engineering; *ICE PREVENTION; *CUTTING; *BOOMS(EQUIPMENT); *INLAND WATERWAYS; RELIABILITY; WINTER; NAVIGATION; LEVEL(QUANTITY); ACCUMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ISLANDS; GREAT LAKES; HYDROELECTRICITY; WATER; DEMONSTRATIONS; TRANSPORTATION; STABILIZATION; THICKNESS; SAINT MARYS RIVER(MICHIGAN); ICE COVER; Little Rapids; St. Marys River; Sugar Island; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA213836; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA213836

An ice boom at the head of Little Rapids Cut was first installed as part of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season Extension Demonstration Program. to help stabilize the ice cover in Sault Harbor and thus moderate ice problems in Little Rapids Cut and act as an aid to winter navig...