Summit on the beneficial use of dredged materials : turning a surplus material into a commodity of value.

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• Creators:
  Knight, David L. ; Clark, Gene R.
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Dredged materials
  • Dredging
  • Waste management
  • Recycling
  • Ports
  • Port capacity
  • Building materials
  • Case studies
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CFIRE RI-08
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Wisconsin
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  Dredged material management options for commercial ports, particularly those involving permanent or long-term placement facilities, are ; diminishing. Many existing placement facilities serving these ports are at, or near capacity, and high costs, plus limited new site availability, make ; prospects for new or expanded capacity increasingly difficult. Absent new strategies for dredged material management, maintenance dredging at – and ; accessibility to - several major ports could be significantly impaired, with serious implications to freight movement. In the Great Lakes alone, some ; 175 million to 200 million tons of primarily bulk commodities – including iron ore, coal, stone, petroleum products, chemicals and grain – are moved ; annually on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system. Given the added factor that, after decades of remediation, much of the material dredged ; from Great Lakes harbors need no longer be managed as toxic or hazardous waste, recycling of material suitable for beneficial use has emerged as the ; most practical approach to sustainable dredged material management in the region. A Summit on beneficial reuse of dredged material with ; programmatic components including: Current technological data on the suitability of dredged material for beneficial reuse; case studies from the Great ; Lakes and other U.S. port ranges involving successful beneficial reuse; and relevant policy issues affecting acceptance and encouragement of ; beneficial reuse was held to address these issues. The target audience included port authorities, harbor commissions, coastal communities, state and ; local regulatory agencies, commercial shipping interests, industries served by marine transportation, dredging practitioners and other stakeholders.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT12-G-UTC19
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27782/dot_27782_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.71 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:351f58a1a2a982bea24ec8cc610f4db0e6a044cf670602f6004c5315a223baf3