Supreme Court decisions is often overlooked. While the impact of dredging on our economy is widely known, the impact of dredging on the development of general maritime law through U.S. Each additional foot of water depth draft equals about $1 million of cargo per ship, impacting our national economy by $127 million annually. The Corps of Engineers has also announced the dredging of the Mississippi River from its mouth to Baton Rouge, La., in order to provide a draft of 50 feet for 256 miles of deep-water commerce. Congress invested $10 billion from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to dredge harbors. harbors at full depth and width only 35% of the time. A lack of maintenance dredging and increasing ship depths have left most U.S. inland maritime transportation system reportedly accounts for one quarter of the U.S. Present-day dredging maintains the navigable depths of our inland ports and waterways, restores the ecology of wetlands and rebuilds beaches exposed along state boundaries. Since its early days, it can easily be argued that dredging is vital to the security and economy of the United States. The Foreign Dredge Act of 1906 prohibited foreign-built or chartered vessels from dredging in U.S. Toward the end of the 19th century, the cutter suction dredge made its appearance and effectively dug and maintained water channels. During the same era, the city of Houston and other port towns formed companies like the Buffalo Bayou Ship Channel Company to build special-purpose vessels to clear and connect waterways for commercial vessel traffic. In 1875, the General Moultrie was the first suction dredge built in the United States and was used in the Charleston River - until it sank within a year.
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