EP 1165-2-1
30 Jul 99
e. Research and Development (R&D) and Field Operating
Activities (FOA).
(1) Water Resources Support Center (WRSC). WRSC provides
information, advice and guidance to HQUSACE, MSCs and DCs concerning
water resources (including navigation) data collection, processing and
monitoring, including remote sensing; performs research and
development in the field of hydrologic engineering, and provides
expert services to MSCs and DCs in this field; collects, compiles and
distributes data and statistics on waterborne commerce and vessel
movements in the United States, on U.S. commercial ports and waterway
facilities, on lock characteristics and performance, and on Corps
dredging activities; and, organizes, manages and performs special
studies for meeting national water resources needs and objectives.
The Institute for Water Resources; the Hydrologic Engineering Center,
Davis, California; and the Navigation Data Center (with its Waterborne
Commerce Statistics Center, New Orleans, Louisiana) are assigned to
WRSC. (ER 10-1-23)
(2) U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES). WES
conducts studies through the operation of a complex of laboratories in
the broad fields of coastal engineering and nearshore oceanography,
hydraulics, soil mechanics, concrete, engineering geology, rock
mechanics, pavements, expedient construction, and environmental
relationships. WES provides MSCs and DCs specialized consulting
services and training in coastal engineering. WES accomplishes model
studies for site-specific MSC and DC design problems. The individual
laboratories are: the Information Technology Laboratory; the
Hydraulics Laboratory; the Geotechnical Laboratory; the Structures
Laboratory; the Environmental Laboratory; and the Coastal Engineering
Research Center (CERC). (ER 10-1-8)
(3) U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
(CERL). CERL develops methods of advancing the concepts and
technology of the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of
all types of Federal structures and facilities, through research,
investigation, and analytical studies. (ER 10-1-26)
(4) U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
(CRREL). As the Army Laboratory for science and technology in the
cold environments of the world, CRREL conducts and coordinates
research and surveillance of technology applicable to the Army's needs
in those geographic areas of the world where cold presents a severe
problem. It also has responsibility for the research project on Ice
Engineering. (ER 10-1-25)
(5) U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Engineering Center (TEC).
TEC accomplishes research and development into the topographic
sciences; provides scientific and technical advisory service to meet
environmental design criteria requirements of military material
developers; provides environmental resource inventory requirements of
military and non-military programs. (ER 10-1-45)
4-3. Other Institutions for Management of River Basin Operations.
The Water Resources Council (WRC) published a report in August 1967,
on "Alternative Institutional Arrangements for Managing River Basin
Operations." This report describes institutional arrangements
developed and used to improve basinwide management of the Nation's
water and related land resources. The report identifies eight
patterns of administrative organization which can be used to integrate
management efforts: Interstate Compact; Federal Interstate Compact;
River Basin Commission; Basin Inter-Agency Committees; Regional
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