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Links to various dredging case studies can be found below.

• Open Water Disposal of Dredged Materials in the Great Lakes
  (2005) (PDF)
  
  
• Toledo Harbor Revisited:
  Changing Open Water Disposal Policy in Western Lake Erie
  (2005) (PDF)
  
  
• Making Topsoil from Sediment at Grant Haven Harbor
  (2005) (PDF)
  
  
• Chicago Industrial Site Reclaimed for Lakefront Parkland
  (2005) (PDF)
  
  
  • see related article in 2004 issue of Dredging and Ports Construction
    
    
  • see Illinois Waste Management Research Center
    Mud to Parks Project, U.S. Steel South Works
    
    
• Michigan City, Indiana Uses Trail Creek Dredged Material for Landfill Cover
  (2004) (PDF)
  
  
• Conneaut Harbor, Ohio on Lake Erie
  (2000)
  
  
• Beneficial Use in Brown County, Wisconsin
  (1999)
  
  
• Duluth-Superior Harbor Dredged Material Management Plan
  (1999)
  
  
• Toledo Harbor and the Maumee River Basin
  (1999)
  
  
• Waukegan Harbor
  (1999)

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