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provide the time necessary to identify and construct a new CDF.
The enhanced management effort will involve trenching and other steps at existing
confined disposal facilities to enhance the dewatering. Consequently, leading to
greater consolidation of material within the existing CDFs. These steps should
provide between three and five additional years of capacity at the existing CDFs.
(Facility #3 and Island 18)
In the meantime, further investigations will take place regarding potential vertical and
horizontal expansion at Island 18 and potential new construction of a Woodtick
Peninsula Barrier or some other alternative. Both programs will have to address
numerous environmental concerns while providing a cost-effective location for the
disposal of dredge material. According to the Phase IV Report, within two years the
committee will identify the location of an expanded or new CDF. In the interim, the
recycling and conservation tillage programs will continue.
Lead Organization:
Collaborator(s):
Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
ACOE, Ohio DNR, Ohio EPA, USDA-NRCS, US F&WS, Michigan DEQ, Hull &
Associates, Inc.
401 Certification Restrict Quantity for Open-Lake Disposal
1995 – Present
Description:
Lead Organization:
The 401 Certification has restricted the volume of dredged material disposed by only
allowing material dredged from Lake Mile 5 lakeward to be open lake disposed and all
material upstream from Lake Mile 5 to be placed in the Confined Disposal Facility.
Ohio EPA
Feasibility Study to Reuse Dredged Materials to Protect/Restore Woodtick Peninsula
1996-1998
Description:
The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority has coordinated a study to evaluate the
containment of sediments from the dredging of the federal navigation channel of the
Maumee River. As part of the study, innovative engineering designs were evaluated
as a means to contain sediments that would be dredged from the channel. An offshore
CDF would be designated to serve as a barrier to provide shoreline protection
and habitat preservation to a sensitive landform, Woodtick Peninsula.
An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was prepared, characterizing potential
impacts to ecological site components of the conceptualized off-shore structure,
including threatened and endangered species, cultural/historical resources occurring
in nearby deepwater, wetland and upland environments.
Lead Organization:
Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority (contractor: Hull & Associates, Inc.)
Dredging of the Mouth of Swan Creek for Owens Corning World Headquarters
Spring 1997
Description:
Swan Creek was dredging at its confluence with the Maumee River (north of the
Activities and Accomplishments
in the Maumee Area of Concern
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Issue 9: Dredged Disposal