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The New England Regional Dredging Team: Sustainable Connections among Dredged
Material Managers
Drew A. Carey, CoastalVision LLC
Steven Wolf, US Army Corps of Engineers, New England District
Melville P. Coté, Jr. US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1
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NERDT Structure- Mid-Level Managers- Sudbury Group- State Teams- Local Planning Groups
- Regular meetings -Website
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NERDT Organization
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New England RDT benefits• agencies deal with broader, regional issues,
public gets involved at state and local level• collegial atmosphere at Sudbury Group has
helped agency staff build relationships and trust
• allowed us to discuss and resolve many issues absent project-specific urgency
• provides opportunities to address issues on a more regional basis
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Example NERDT Collaborations
• Revisiting scientific basis for time-of-year restrictions, led by Massachusetts
• Promoting beneficial use of dredged material for beach nourishment and capping
• Providing lessons learned in the usage of confined aquatic disposal (CAD) cells
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Time-of-Year Restrictions• MA Division of Marine Fisheries
developed site-specific recommendations
• NERDT helped promote the project nationally, surveyed members, and provided comments
Watersheds and coastal regions of Massachusetts used for TOY delineations
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TOY Restrictions by watershed
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Promoting Beneficial Use of Dredged Material for Beach Nourishment
Concerns about efficacy of nearshore placement of coarse material for beach nourishment
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Identify Sites where Nearshore Placement Could Potentially Be Effective
Beneficial Use
• physical environment
• material type
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Developing study to ‘seed’ coarse material with fluorescent particles and track movement from near shore placement
from Partrac
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• And….
1958 Saturday Evening Post article on disposal at the IWS
Evaluating Potential for Beneficial Use of Dredged Material for Capping of Historic Industrial Waste Site
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Planned future deepening of Boston Harbor could provide ample capping material
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Beneficial Use
• Streamlining of data gathering using the EPA Ocean Survey Vessel (OSV) BOLD
• Side scan sonar used to map the edges of the historic disposal site
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Lessons Learned from Beneficial Use Projects
• Need to plan well ahead of dredging project timetable
• Challenges with funding and meshing timetables of need for dredging and needs for material
• NERDT discusses issues regularly to identify potential solutions to overcome barriers
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Lessons Learned from Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) Cell Usage for Dredged Material in New England
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NERDT Supports Regional Sustainability Through Local Connections
• Discusses and resolves technical issues• Represents region’s interests at National
Dredging Team and conferences• Makes connections between state agencies
from five states and four federal agencies• Shares lessons for beneficial reuse and
resource protection across states
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Thank You
• NERDT Co-chairs:– Mel Coté, Region 1 EPA – Steve Wolf, New England District, USACE
• NERDT Facilitator:– Drew Carey, CoastalVision LLC
www.nerdt.org