Design Criteria and Techniques for Large-Scale Beneficial Uses of Dredge Material Projects
Publication: Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
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The beneficial uses of dredge material from the Houston-Galveston Navigation Channel (HGNC) to create large-scale wetlands represents a blueprint for other large U.S. ports. The port authority's interagency coordination team, the Beneficial Uses Group (BUG), successfully developed an innovative 50–year plan to deal with dredge material disposal from the channel widening and maintenance project. The creation of intertidal wetlands will initiate the restoration of the United States second most productive estuary, in concert with the Galveston Bay National Estuary Plan, while capturing increasingly scarce government financing for port maintenance and improvement operations. An overview of the various beneficial uses of dredge material in the HGNC enlarging project is presented with a detailed investigation of the Bayport Demonstration Marsh. The HGNC project is analyzed as a prototype for successful extensive wetland creation ventures, and several key design criteria for similar large-scale marsh creation projects are given.
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© 2001 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Architectural engineering
- Building management
- Channels (waterway)
- Coastal engineering
- Coasts, oceans, ports, and waterways engineering
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Design (by type)
- Dredged materials
- Engineering fundamentals
- Estuaries
- Hydraulic design
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Maintenance and operation
- Ports and harbors
- Project management
- River engineering
- River systems
- Sediment
- Water and water resources
- Waterways
- Wetlands (fresh water)
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