GREAT LAKES DREDGING: Planning for Dredged Material Management

Ever wonder how materials in the products and the power you use every day get to where you live? Or how they get from your community to others across the country and around the world?
Across the Great Lakes, it’s all because of dredging by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers!

Find out what dredging is, why it’s important for you, and the impact it has on your community.

**Send your input, questions, and comments on dredged material management planning for YOUR Great Lakes Harbor to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at: [email protected]

Visit our website and find your local district at https://www.lrd.usace.army.mil.

More information on Beneficial Uses of Dredged Sediment: https://budm.el.erdc.dren.mil/.

(U.S. Army video by Avery Schneider)

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00:00 Introduction
00:29 What is dredging?
01:05 Great Lakes Navigation System
01:34 Why we dredge
02:14 Example: Toledo Harbor
02:52 Economic Advantages of Shipping
03:27 Dredging in Toledo
04:27 What happens to dredged material?
04:41 Open Lake Placement
05:00 Confined Disposal
05:37 Beneficial Use of Dredged Material
06:30 Dredged Material Management Planning
07:27 Share your feedback / Contact Us