Dredging and Dredged Material Management
Dredging and managing dredged material are critical components in many waterfront engineering projects as navigation channels, harbors, and port berths typically require dredging to establish and maintain adequate depths.
Over the past two decades, Taylor Engineering’s waterfront engineers have guided dredging activities through all stages from project concept to project completion. Our typical efforts include project feasibility evaluation, long-range dredged material management planning, project permitting, final design and construction documents, contract administration, and construction observation.
We have worked with clients such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND), and the United Nations to develop a variety of successful dredging projects. Since 1986, Taylor Engineering has worked with the FIND to prepare, design, and implement dredging and long-term dredged material management plans for the 370 miles of Florida Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. Our dredging and dredged material management projects have included maintenance dredging for harbors and navigation channels, dredging for navigation channel and marina basin creation, and dredging for environmental restoration purposes.
In addition, we have unparalleled experience in the siting, design, and construction of dredged material management facilities. Through our work with FIND, we have played a role in all phases of 54 dredged material management facilities that range in size from 3 to 203 acres with dredged material containment dikes ranging in height from 6 to 27 feet. Our efforts on these projects have included work phases from feasibility analysis through construction. Taylor Engineering has developed a variety of technical resources for dredging and dredged material management applications. These tools address water quality compliance, confined disposal facility design and performance, threatened and endangered species, dredge plant operation and production rates, dredged material handling and processing, and facilities site selection.
Dredging services include
- Dredging and dredged material management design
- Identification, inspection, evaluation, and selection of dredged material placement sites
- Dredged material disposal area site design
- Dredged material dewatering and handling design
- Maintenance dredging design
- Alternative dredging technologies evaluations
- Alternative dredged material management strategies, including beach placement
- Navigation analysis and channel design
- Sedimentation and shoaling studies
- Design of structural alternatives to dredging
- Alternative and beneficial uses of dredged materials
- Regulatory permitting and submerged land issues
- Construction phase services
- Physical and environmental monitoring of active dredging operations and dredged material disposal sites
- Regulatory compliance monitoring
- Open-water capping of contaminated sediments
- Automated tracking and reporting of dredging and disposal operations
- Project dredging requirements based on navigational, environmental, and economic considerations
- Sediment chemistry and physical characteristic assessments
- Upland containment facilities design
- Dredged material beach placement site design
- Dredging operations efficiency evaluations
- Regulatory agencies liaison and coordination
- Public outreach and education on dredging and dredged material management issues
- Litigation assistance and expert witness testimony