Testing and Evaluating Dredged Material for Upland Beneficial Uses: A Regional Framework for the Great Lakes This document offers a step-by-step guide to identifying upland beneficial use opportunities, evaluating suitability, and implementation using a risk-based approach. Eight different upland beneficial use scenarios are evaluated with tables comparing relevant state contaminant criteria.

Annotated Bibliography The annotated bibliography serves as a companion document to the Regional Framework document. It includes all the references cited in the framework and many additional ones that might be useful in evaluating dredged material for beneficial uses.

Abandoned Mine Reclamation Using Dredged Material
The Bark Camp Mine Reclamation Demonstration Project was done in cooperation with the NY/NJ Clean Ocean And Shore Trust, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Clean Earth Dredging Technologies, Inc.

Beach Nourishment:  A Guide for Local Government Officials

Developed by the NOAA Coastal Services Center, this guide examines the geological, ecological, social and eningeering aspects of beach nourishment.

Great Lakes Dredging Team Beneficial Use Implementation Strategy
This strategy was developed by the Great Lakes Dredging Team to ensure the Team's follow-up on the recommendations of the Great Lakes Commission's Beneficial Use Task Force Report.

Interactive Map of Beneficial Use Projects in the Great Lakes Region
This interactive map is was developed from the centerfold of the 16-page color booklet, Waste To Resource: Beneficial Use of Great Lakes Dredged Material. Click on the map's icons to get descriptions of each of the featured projects around the lakes. Project descriptions were developed as part of the Final Report of the Great Lakes Beneficial Use Task Force.

Waste To Resource: Beneficial Use of Great Lakes Dredged Material now available!
This 16-page full-color booklet answers common questions about Great Lakes dredged material and its use for productive purposes. It includes case studies and a map of different types of beneficial use projects around the Great Lakes.

Beneficial Use of Great Lakes Dredged Material: A Report of the Great Lakes Beneficial Use Task Force.
This 60-page report includes 18 recommendations for advancing beneficial use of dredged material that resulted from the task force's 2-year collaborative effort. The report also includes an overview of selected beneficial use projects, selected dredged material treatment technologies and a profile of each Great Lakes state's regulatory framework for beneficial use of dredged material.

State, Territory, and Commonwealth Beach Nourishment Programs: A National Overview. 2000. (384 K PDF)
This document summarizes beach nourishment policies for all states that participate in the federal Coastal Zone Management Program. Illinois and Indiana are not included.

Manufactured Soil Field Demonstrations on Brownfields and Abandoned Minelands(.pdf) by C. R. Lee
DOER Technical Note ERDC TN-DOER-C25. (To access this file, you must be running Window 95 or higher, Netscape or Internet Explorer, and Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher.)

DOER Technical Notes--Focus Area-Contaminated Sediments
US Army Corps of Engineers
This page includes a list of documents providing guidance on testing and evaluating contaminated dredged materials for various beneficial use applications.

Beneficial Use Of Dredged Material
Provided by the Army Corps DOTS program, provides an overview of the various types of beneficial uses for dredged material and examples of where they have occured.

Army Corps' Detroit District Demonstration Beneficial Use Projects
Article on page 4 of DOER Dredging Research Bulletin of Vol. 3, No. 1

Beneficial Use Fact Sheet
Provided by the Army Corps Great Lakes Regional Headquarters, discusses federal authorities for the beneficial use of dredged material and notes projects where beneficial use has been used and where it is being considered in the Great Lakes region.

The Beneficial Use of Dredged Material for Upland Uses
This paper describes innovative technologies for treating contaminated dredged material for upland beneficial use and highlights examples of such projects throughout the U.S. and overseas. The paper was prepared for the Port of Long Beach, California. April, 2000

Great Lakes Commission Resolution on Making Beneficial Use of Dredged Material a Policy Priority (May, 2001)

Great Lakes Commission Resolution on the Beneficial Use of Dredged Material (May, 2000)