{"id":29268,"date":"2019-10-29T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=29268"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:52:22","slug":"maryland-introduces-tool-for-beneficial-use-of-dredged-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/10\/29\/maryland-introduces-tool-for-beneficial-use-of-dredged-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Introduces Tool for Beneficial Use of Dredged Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Department Initiative Boosts Restoration and Resilience<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\"AerialThe Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> has developed a new conservation tool to identify opportunities for the beneficial use of clean dredged sediments. Beneficial Use – Identifying Locations for Dredge (BUILD)<\/a> is a mapping tool<\/a> that will support the state\u2019s Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, protect infrastructure and investment, and enhance coastal resiliency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The tool was inspired by the success of the Ferry Point Park shoreline project in Queen Anne\u2019s County, which was completed in 2013 through a partnership between the state and county. Ferry Point Park\u2019s shoreline was restored using dredged material obtained from a nearby federal navigation channel. Combining these projects saved the department more than $1 million by reducing transportation costs. It also opened navigation, created habitat, and preserved land. Ferry Point Park\u2019s shoreline also provides protection from flooding and future storm events to millions of dollars of regional investment and infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project demonstrated that with a more coordinated approach to dredging and shoreline restoration during the planning phase of projects, enormous economic and ecological benefits can be realized across the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A first of its kind tool, BUILD will assist governmental and non-governmental entities to synchronize<\/span> the use of dredged material from navigation channels with projects that reduce flooding and storm risk impacts. Planners and engineers can save on costs that would otherwise be incurred to transport dredged material to an upland placement site or to bring fill material to a restoration site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a number of restoration projects and dredging projects needed across the state. BUILD is a great tool that will help us coordinate a response to these needs, protect important infrastructure and reduce costs,\u201d Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio said. \u201cThe department will be actively using BUILD to help further the state\u2019s restoration goals, but it will be an important planning tool for others to use as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BUILD provides access to various dredging and restoration datasets, including navigational channel depth surveys, potential restoration sites, upcoming navigational improvement projects and the state\u2019s<\/span> Wetlands and Waterways permit layer<\/span><\/a>. More information is available on the department\u2019s <\/span>Beneficial Use of Dredged Material<\/span><\/a> webpage, which contains the BUILD tool<\/a> along with with an online <\/span>fact sheet,<\/span><\/a> user manual<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>story map<\/span><\/a>. Anyone interested in learning more should contact Catherine McCall at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources at catherine.mccall@maryland.gov or 410-260-8737.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department Initiative Boosts Restoration and Resilience The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has developed a new conservation tool to identify opportunities for the beneficial use of clean dredged sediments. Beneficial Use – Identifying Locations for Dredge (BUILD) is a mapping tool that will support the state\u2019s Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, protect infrastructure and investment, and  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3171,33],"tags":[3125,2982,3723,4035],"class_list":["post-29268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","category-the-bay","tag-building-resiliency-through-restoration","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-dredging","tag-jeannie-haddaway-riccio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29281,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29268\/revisions\/29281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}