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WEDA Eastern Chapter Meeting Details Released

The Western Area Dredging Association (WEDA) Eastern Chapter has released the schedule of events and education sessions for its upcoming meeting. The event will be held October 16 to 19 in Wilmington, Delaware and will include presentations, panel discussions, meetings and networking events.

Sessions will include:

  • Own It: Our Role in Man Overboard Near Deaths
  • A Coastal Sediment Crisis of Dust Bowl Proportions: Why we need a New Deal for Beneficially Using Sediment
  • Creating Tidal Wetland Marshes with Deep Layers of Dredged Material
  • Guidance for Thin Layer Placement of Dredged Material
  • Identifying Collaborative Opportunities for Natural Infrastructure Using the Natural Infrastructure Opportunity Tool (NIOT)
  • The Beneficial Use of Dredged Material as a Tool for Saltmarsh Ecosystem Restoration in Coastal New Jersey: Lessons Learned from Fortescue, NJ
  • Restoring and Enhancing Salt Marsh Habitat with Dredged Sediment: Two Rhode Island Case Studies
  • Panel Discussion: Beneficial Use in the Chesapeake Bay
  • Elevation Enhancement Restoration: Successes and Improving Adaptive Management Strategy along the Mid-Atlantic Coast
  • Issues Associated with the Management of Dredge Material from CDFs and Mechanical Dredging Projects in New Jersey
  • Determining the Effectiveness of Ferrate-Treated Slurry Precipitate as a Soil Conditioner
  • Beneficial Use of Dredged Environmental Sediment
  • New Work Dredged Material Brings Life to the Bottom of Charleston Harbor
  • Treatability Studies to Support On-Site Beneficial Re-Use of Tidal Flats Sediments at a CERCLA Site
  • Recent Experience with Channel Dredging and Innovative Placement to Support Coastal Resilience In New Jersey