The objectives of this report are to quantify existing acoustical conditions in Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) and provide results that can be used for park management and planning. Multiple external sound sources currently impact the soundscape of VICK, including Interstate 20, U.S. Highway 61, Kansas City Southern Railroad, Yazoo Diversion Canal (shipping traffic), and a harbor industrial complex. Inside the park, buses, RVs, motorcycles, and cars create noise along the 16-mile tour road and especially at the Visitor Center and U.S.S. Cairo parking areas. Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is planning to widen a section of I-20 immediately adjacent to the parks southeast border. MDOT has contracted out the noise analysis for this construction project to Neel-Schaffer, Inc. The company uses 15-minute point measurements and TNM modeling to quantify impacts, but park staff requested more detailed sound monitoring by the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division.
Vicksburg National Military Park Acoustic Monitoring Report
2013
54 pages
Report
No indication
English
Noise Pollution & Control , Recreation , Air Transportation , Natural Resource Surveys , National parks , Acoustical monitoring , Noise measurements , Sound levels , Natural resource management , Aircraft noise , Noise impact , Data collection , Environmental management , Vicksburg National Military Park
Alabama and Vicksburg improvements in Vicksburg, Miss.
Engineering Index Backfile | 1901
United States waterways experiment station at vicksburg
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
|New locomotives for the Alabama and Vicksburg
Engineering Index Backfile | 1923
First floodflow experiments of Vicksburg Hydraulic Laboratory
Engineering Index Backfile | 1931