Category: Project Archive

Atchafalaya River Island Creation Project (Morgan City, LA)

This EWN Action Project provides biological and hydrological monitoring data to quantify benefits and otherwise improve our understanding of the maturation of beneficial use of dredged material within the Atchafalaya Basin. The project documents how a river island is successfully created using dredged material in a beneficial manner, taking advantage of the natural hydrological processes […]

Living Shoreline Creation Through Beneficial Use of Dredged Material (Duluth, MN)

This EWN Action Project identifies and develops low-cost, shallow-water dredged material placement methods, utilizing both engineered and natural processes. These methods maximize the habitat value of the dredged material used for Areas of Concern habitat restoration projects. Finding cost-effective approaches for material handling that achieve the desired habitat is critical for development of future shoreline […]