Dredging and Dredged Material Management

Pioneering Innovative, Cost-Effective Methods

SAIC scientists have pioneered the use of innovative, cost-effective methods to collect, process, and deliver information to support dredging and disposal management decisions. Our approach has evolved over 20 years providing expert services to a diverse group of national agencies, various state agencies, and commercial enterprises.

In assisting our customers with projects involving contaminated sediments, SAIC provides exceptional capabilities in support of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)-type studies and documentation from initial preliminary assessments/site investigations, remedial investigations, feasibility studies (including essential fish habitat assessments, habitat equivalency evaluations, and threatened and endangered species studies), records of decisions/proposed plans, remedial design, and post-habitat mitigation, long-term monitoring plans, and five-year reviews.

Expert Services

SAIC’s specific areas of expertise include:

• Disposal area siting and designation
• Physical and biological characterization studies
• Environmental monitoring of dredging and disposal activities using state-of-the-art technologies
• Development of dredged material monitoring and management plans
• Toxicological and chemical testing of sediments
• Environmental impact assessments
• Ecological risk assessment
• Development of specialized Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Coordination with resource and regulatory agencies
• Automated satellite surveillance and tracking of disposal activities

 

Services include:

• Physical and environmental monitoring of active dredging operations and dredged material disposal sites employing a wide range of field survey techniques
• Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) cell construction and monitoring
• Preparation of sampling and analysis plans and sampling and analysis reports
• Monitoring regulatory compliance
• Open-water capping of contaminated sediments
• Automated tracking and reporting of dredging and disposal operations
• Public outreach and education