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The Dredge Materials Decision Tool: Helping You Decide Where/Whether to Beneficially Use Sediments Since 2021
Citation:
Williams, Katie AND S. Paczuski. The Dredge Materials Decision Tool: Helping You Decide Where/Whether to Beneficially Use Sediments Since 2021. Restore America’s Estuaries Conference, New Orleans, LA, December 04 - 08, 2022. https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.21714224
Impact/Purpose:
Presentation to the Restoring America’s Estuaries Conference December 2022. The impact of this research is a demonstration of a decision support tool created by Region 5 through collaborative translational research methodologies can facilitate collective decisions about the beneficial use of dredged materials.
Description:
USEPA Region 5 developed a decision-support tool to help communities characterize and quantify the economic and social dimensions of beneficially using dredge material so these dimensions can be more easily weighed alongside economic considerations. Region 5 worked with USEPA Office of Research Development scientists to help refine the tool and enhance usability through conducting a series of workshops with different groups of stakeholders involved in dredging decisions. Based on the results of the workshops and related research efforts, a user-friendly interface was created for the tool and an instruction manual that describes how to use the tool was developed. Furthermore, the tool was refined to better reflect specific decision criteria.
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DOI: The Dredge Materials Decision Tool: Helping You Decide Where/Whether to Beneficially Use Sediments Since 2021
BENEFICIAL USE OF DREDGE TOOL_RAE_CONFERENCE_FINAL.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 2444.394 KB, about PDF)