Closed · W81EWF-24-SOI-0007 · CFDA 12.630 · Discretionary
Evaluating Sediment Transport and Morphological Evolution of a Cross-shore Swash Zone Placement
Federal grant opportunity posted by Engineer Research and Development Center, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $143K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- January 26, 2024
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Evaluating Sediment Transport and Morphological Evolution of a Cross-shore Swash Zone Placement is a closed discretionary listing from Engineer Research and Development Center that offered Up to $142,500 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- up to $143K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 12.630
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - Evaluating Sediment Transport and Morphological Evolution of a Cross-shore Swash Zone Placement - is cataloged under number W81EWF-24-SOI-0007 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 12.630, posted by Engineer Research and Development Center. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on November 27, 2023. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is Up to $142,500. The agency has projected $143,000 in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $143,000 estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $143,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on January 26, 2024. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
Up to $142,500
Close Date
January 26, 2024
Posted
November 27, 2023
Est. Total Funding
$142,500
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
Crescent Beach, Indiana is regularly nourished from an upland source. The nourishment sediment is transported west by the longshore current towards Burn Harbor and Burns Small Boat Harbor navigation channels. At Burns Small Boat Harbor, the USACE plans to use an innovative dredged sediment placement technique to bring sediment dredged from the harbor to a “cross-shore swash zone” (CSSZ) placement at Portage Park. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the feasibility of using unconfined swash zone placement into a shore perpendicular spit as a cost-effective method to bring sediment from navigation dredging to the subaerial beach. Allowing the pipe from the dredge to discharge sediment directly into the swash zone and readjusting the pipe position as the shoreline progrades has the potential to build out a shore-perpendicular spit with substantially less equipment requirements on the beach. Natural processes are expected to rework the placed material over a larger stretch of shoreline. Demonstrated success in this project has the potential to make similar strategies more accessible in other settings where it is likely to be successful. Detailed monitoring data that describes hydrodynamic conditions, sediment characteristics, and morphological change after sediment placement is a critical part of this.The goals for this project are to operationally learn about an innovative construction technique, study the morphological evolution of the nourishment, amass a complete data set for future model validation, and estimate future dredging requirements. To achieve these goals, the work addressing this funding opportunity must:· Provide topographic survey data from five to six backpack mounted LiDAR surveys (or similar), covering the subaerial beach in the vicinity of the placement area prior to construction, reasonably promptly after construction, 1 month after construction, in the winter of 2024 preferably following the first storm event to exceed 1 m offshore wave heights for 4 hours, and in the spring of 2025.· Provide data from five to six bathymetric surveys, with comparable coverage to 25 single beam transects encompassing the placement area and surrounding area at similar times to topographic surveys.· Provide continuous wave and current measurements in 5 to 10 m water depths for up to 10 months.· Provide the sediment gradation at 15 to 20 locations along a cross-shore transect from the dune toe to approximately 10 m water depth before the beach nourishment, promptly after construction, and in the spring 2025. The sediment sampling should occur concurrently with bathymetric surveys.· Provide boat support over one to two days for EcoMapper turbidity data collection to be conducted during construction by USACE researchers.· Provide minor cleaning and visual inspections of turbidity sensors to be deployed by the USACE when collecting other data detailed above.· Provide topographic and bathymetric survey data from two surveys of Crescent Beach, Indiana to infer sediment transport updrift of Burns Harbor and Burns Small Boat Harbor for future dredged volume estimation. The topographic survey data shall be collected using a backpack mounted LiDAR system (or similar) and the bathymetric survey data shall consist of 31 cross-shore single beam transects measured at a similar time as the topographic surveys. The two surveys shall be temporally spaced approximately one month apart following a beach nourishment.Quality control, analyze, and document collected field data in a technical report or peer reviewed journal manuscript.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category code 25. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
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Agency Contact
Kisha Craig Contract Specialist Phone 6016345397
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