Long-Term Management Strategies for USS Arizona
Legacy Resources Management Fund Project No. 03-170
2003 Annual Report

The National Park Service’s (NPS) Submerged Resources Center (SRC) received a FY03 Legacy Grant (Project No. 03-170) for research directed to understanding the nature and rate of natural processes affecting deterioration of USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The USS Arizona Long-Term Management Strategies Research Project, conducted in partnership with the USS Arizona Memorial (USAR), is designed to be multi-year, interdisciplinary and cumulative, with each element contributing to developing an overall management strategy designed to: 1) minimize environmental hazard from fuel oil release; and 2) provide basic research necessary to make informed management decisions for long-term preservation. This project has been designed to serve as a model because it will have direct application to preservation and management of other iron and steel historical vessels and to intervention actions for other leaking vessels. The first application of the lessons learned from the work being conducted under this research program is most likely to be applied to Utah, the only other vessel in Pearl Harbor remaining from the 1941 attack. This report may be accessed as a web-based document or downloaded as a 1.3MB PDF file.

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