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Beneficial Use of Sediment 2025
With creative thinking, options abound
Each year, private industries and public entities spend hundreds of millions of dollars on dredging and disposing sediment to remediate legacy contamination. The good news: in many cases, with creative thinking and environmental planning, this “waste” sediment can become a valuable resource.
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A former slip that once served the Great Lakes shipping industry was restored to a natural state as part of a larger contaminated sediment remediation project near Duluth, Minnesota. Aquatic restoration projects often pose the challenge of what to do with contaminated dredged sediment. At this site, sediment was placed and capped at varying depths to restore aquatic habitat.

In this issue

Avoid the landfill by putting sediment to better use

With creative thinking, dredged sediment can become a resource rather than being hauled away.

Rethink sediment management
Collaborative planning drives beneficial use project design

Sediment remediation at a Superfund site

Sediment remediation at a Superfund site
Use of dredged material helps stretch restoration funds

Aquatic habitat restoration

Multi-site habitat restoration project
Jump-start your project through EPA cost-sharing program

Great Lakes restoration funding

Funding Great Lakes sediment remediation
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