Point locations document federal dredge projects by the US Army Corps of Engineers along the Massachusetts coastline. The data is historical, with records up to 16 December 1998. The dataset was compiled by the organization SCIOPS.
Use Cases
- Map project locations for navigational channels, anchorages, harbors, beaches, and dikes to analyze spatial patterns of coastal engineering.
- Use hyperlinks to USACE project descriptions to retrieve detailed historical reports and construction histories for specific sites.
- Analyze the temporal distribution of dredging projects up to 1998 to understand historical investment cycles in port maintenance.
- Correlate project point locations with coastal maps to assess the impact of dredging on historical shoreline and bathymetry changes.
Strengths
- Includes hyperlinks to authoritative USACE project descriptions, histories, and maps for further investigation.
- Covers multiple project types: navigational channels, anchorages, harbors, beaches, and dikes.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, with no records after December 1998.
- The exact number of records (rows) and spatial precision are unknown.
- Lack of column details prevents analysis of specific quantitative attributes like dredge volume or cost.
Provenance
- Source
- US Army Corps of Engineers project records, compiled by SCIOPS.
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Historical to 16 December 1998.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Massachusetts marine coastline.