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Conneaut
CASE STUDY: Conneaut
Harbor, Ohio
Pennsylvania uses interstate consistency provisions of the Coastal Zone
Management Act to achieve beneficial use of dredged material.
Duluth/Superior
CASE STUDY: Duluth-Superior
Harbor Dredged Material Management Plan
How to keep the navigation channels for the largest tonnage Great Lakes
port maintained in a cost-effective manner while adhering to the policies
and goals developed to protect this resource? To answer this question,
the stakeholders have put their trust in communication, creativity and
commitment.
Duluth Seaway Port Authority
The port evolved within a common harbor and is shared by two states, Minnesota
and Wisconsin. With iron ore docks, coal docks, grain elevators and specialized
cargo facilities lining the industrial waterfronts of both Duluth and
Superior, the port serves shippers and receivers throughout the U.S. Midwest
and the Great Plains. It also has some customers in Canada's western provinces.
Green
Bay
CASE STUDY: Beneficial
Use of Dredged Material in Brown County, Wisconsin
A problem is becoming an opportunity when one considers what's happening
to dredged material in Wisconsin's Brown County. The county is utilizing
a straight forward process to dewater dredged material from the Port of
Green Bay and make it available as a resource for agricultural and transportation
purposes. This action may eliminate the need to build future disposal
capacity.
Toledo
CASE STUDY: The
Port of Toledo and the Maumee River Basin
In recent years, the Army Corps of Engineers has removed an average of
800,000 cubic yards of sediment from navigation channels in the Maumee
River and about 200,000 cubic yards in the outer harbor in Lake Erie.
These amounts make the Toledo Harbor project the largest regular dredging
project on the Great Lakes. The high volume of sediment, if allowed to
build up, would in the short term substantially affect commercial vessel
drafts and in the long run threaten the port's existence.
Toledo Harbor Pilot Project
This report examines the results of a two-year pilot study aimed at ddressing
Toledo Harbor's dredging problems through a multi-part plan that includes
an extensive land treatment erosion control program to reduce the source
of sediment.
Toledo-Lucas County Port
Authority
The Port of Toledo on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Maumee River, is the
largest international tonnage seaport on the Great Lakes. The Port handles
an average of 15 million tons of cargo each year, including coal, iron,
ore, grain and various general cargos. Port activities generate more than
$500 million in economic activity annually with more than 500 dependent
jobs.
Waukegan
CASE STUDY: Waukegan
Harbor
Dredging at Waukegan Harbor on Lake Michigan is a complicated matter.
PCB contamination of inner harbor sediments and relatively clean sediments
moving along the lakeshore have together raised some interesting dredging
and disposal issues.
Waukegan Harbor
Citizens Advisory Group (CAG)
Describes partnerships and progress on the cleanup and restoration activities
for Waukegan Harbor.
PCB Contaminated Sediment Remediation in Waukegan Harbor
Describes the International Joint Commission's case study in Waukegan
Harbor as well as the effectiveness of the project.
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