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The Conference is organized and presented by Battelle.
Battelle offers specialized environmental expertise to government and industrial clients in the U.S. and abroad. Combining science-based approaches with creative management strategies, Battelle works with project managers to develop technically sound and cost-effective solutions for the challenges inherent in managing contaminated sediment sites. Battelle is the largest nonprofit independent research and development organization in the world, providing innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing needs through its four global businesses: Laboratory Management, National Security, Energy Technology, and Health and Life Sciences. It advances scientific discovery and application by conducting $5.6 billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management, and technology commercialization. Battelle oversees 20,400 employees in more than 130 cities worldwide, including seven national laboratories that Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and two international energy research laboratories. Battelle also is one of the nation’s leading charitable trusts focusing on societal and economic impact and actively supporting and promoting science and math education. www.battelle.org
Conference Sponsers
The following sponsors have contributed financial support. Click on the company name beneath any logo to view the corporate description provided by the sponsor.
Employing approximately 45,000 employees around the world, AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water, and government. AECOM scientists apply our services on a wide variety of development, cleanup, and restoration projects, including some of the nation’s most complex sediment management problems. Our expertise includes sediment site assessment under a variety of regulatory programs, strategic Superfund consulting, dredging and dredged material disposal programs, restoration of water bodies and watersheds, shoreline and site development, natural resource damage assessment support, risk analysis, and design and implementation of complex remediation projects. AECOM has been a key participant in Sediment Contaminant Bioavailability Alliance (SCBA), an industry-led consortium involving private industry, utility companies, and government organizations. The SCBA was established to develop and evaluate the use of chemical measures of contaminant bioavailability for sediment management. www.aecom.com
BioGenesis Enterprises, Inc., is a technology development firm incorporated in Illinois in 1989. The company develops, manufactures, and provides products and services for environmental cleaning and remediation. Using the patented BioGenesisSM Sediment Washing Process, BioGenesis has solved the problem of cleaning pollutants, including heavy metals and chlorinated organic contaminants, from fine sediments. The process has been demonstrated in programs sponsored by Environment Canada, the U.S. EPA Region 2, the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and the Port Authority of Venice, Italy. The BioGenesisSM Sediment Washing Process is capable of decontaminating more than 40 cubic yards per hour continuously. BioGenesis’ competitive advantages over other remediation technologies include cost, range of treatable contaminants, and nontoxic and environmentally benign cleaning solutions. Using innovative processes and formulations, BioGenesis offers superior and compliant soil and sediment remediation at the lowest competitive cost. www.biogenesis.com
Cable Arm, Inc. manufactures clamshell buckets designed specifically for environmental dredging, as well as buckets for use in navigational dredging and bulk-material handling. The Cable Arm® Environmental Clamshell provides a low center of mass in the bucket containment area and is designed to minimize removal of uncontaminated material from hard bottoms, reducing cleanup costs. The unique design utilizes a patented LEVEL-CUT®, large-footprint shell with OVERLAPPING SIDE PLATES™ and rubber flaps. These features reduce loss and windrowing of sediment material and limit water dilution and turbidity during bucket ascent. Cable Arm’s ClamVision® software is a fully integrated dredge-positioning system that displays a 3-D, color-coded surface derived from existing hydrographic survey data. It provides crane operators and off-site monitors a view of dredging activities, the position of the bucket, and the barge. The addition of acoustics to INSTANT VERIFICATION™ provides real-time bottom conditions. When used together with approved environmental dredging procedures, the Cable Arm Environmental Clamshell and ClamVision Software provide safe, precise, and complete removal of contaminated sediment by minimizing the resuspension of contaminants, minimizing the amount of water removed, and reducing overdredging. www.cablearm.com
CETCO® is known for its world-class research and development throughout the environmental remediation industry. This is demonstrated through our unique and innovative product solutions. Our sediment treatment products have opened up new opportunities for engineers and have consequentially changed the way they think about sediment remediation projects. Reactive Core Mat® has enabled engineers to design subaqueous caps that are more effective. Our gas vapor mitigation systems reduce gas vapor intrusion and provide a high level of protection for structures built on former Brownfields and industrial sites, allowing for the beneficial reuse of formerly unusable land. Whether treating contaminated sediments, preventing gas vapor migration, or solidifying contaminated soil, CETCO makes use of its world class research and development group to provide support for these applications and to create new solutions for tough environmental remediation challenges worldwide. www.cetco.com/RTG
CDM is a full-service consulting, engineering, construction, and operations firm that delivers sustainable solutions to help clients solve environmental problems using innovative ideas and technology. With more than 4,000 staff in 100+ offices worldwide, our multidisciplinary staff of scientists, planners, and engineers are proven in key disciplines related to contaminated sediment, soil, and groundwater remediation, permitting and planning, environmental fate and exposure modeling, ecological and human-health risk assessment, environmental biology and restoration, and cutting-edge data collection and analysis techniques. In particular, CDM is an industry leader in evaluation, selection, and implementation of innovative remediation technologies. We have a proven history in developing and implementing effective strategies that not only gain streamlined regulatory consensus and approval but also fulfill the specific needs of our clients. www.cdm.com
CH2M HILL provides comprehensive, award-winning sediment management and remediation services that result in sound sediment solutions. As an employee-owned, $6.4 billion planning, engineering, construction, and operations firm providing integrated services in environment, water, energy, transportation, and industrial facilities, we can tailor a strategic approach to your unique situation. Our experienced, multidisciplinary teams deliver the full spectrum of services, from front-end strategic planning, conceptual model development, investigation, and risk assessment through feasibility analysis, design, construction management, habitat restoration, and long-term monitoring and operations. Augmenting our teams as needed, we have specialists in community involvement, decision science, Web-based communications, sustainability, and much more. Our sediments portfolio includes federal, municipal, and industrial projects at more than 150 sites worldwide, both large and small. With 23,500 employees in more than 176 program offices worldwide, CH2M HILL uses innovative, technology-driven solutions to deliver cost-effective solutions locally to our clients. A recent high-profile example is our innovative use of an air-bubble curtain in place of a traditional silt curtain to control turbidity during dredging on a Wisconsin project. www.ch2m.com
ENVIRON’s expertise in ecological risk assessment, contaminated sediment management, environmental restoration, and natural resource damage assessment has resulted in an outstanding reputation with clients, regulators, and the scientific community throughout the world. Our staff of ecologists, engineers, risk assessors, and remediation specialists provides focused, cost-effective investigation, assessment, and remediation services to assist clients in field investigations, wildlife surveys, ecotoxicology studies, ecological and human-health risk assessments, remediation alternatives analysis, and remedial technology implementation. An international consultancy, ENVIRON International Corporation works with clients to help resolve their most demanding environmental and human-health issues. We combine resources across geographic boundaries and technical and scientific disciplines to provide clients with the best, most responsive team—whether responding to existing challenges, evaluating opportunities to improve performance, or seeking to reduce future liabilities. Clients around the world benefit from our unique ability to bring clarity to issues at the intersection of science, business, and policy. www.environcorp.com
ESTCP is DoD’s environmental technology demonstration and validation program. The Program’s goal is to identify and demonstrate cost-effective technologies that address DoD’s highest-priority environmental requirements. Demonstrations are carried out at DoD facilities and sites to document improved efficiency, reduced liability, and direct cost savings. Innovative technologies are reducing the cost of environmental remediation and compliance, lowering life-cycle costs of weapons systems, and managing the impact of DoD’s operations on the environment, while enhancing military readiness. www.estcp.org
The Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Berger), provides comprehensive services in environmental sciences, natural resource restoration, solid/hazardous-waste management, water/wastewater, archaeology, waterfront/ports and other A/E planning, design, and construction-phase services. Berger possesses one of the nation’s strongest integrated teams for providing contaminated sediments science, engineering and restoration services. In developing contaminated sediment restoration plans, we maintain three key values: the ecosystem's natural potential, achievable goals, and sustainability. We use state-of-the-art forensic methods to build a sound understanding of each system and maximize benefit of the overall approach, while also paying special attention to the concerns of local communities and stakeholders to ensure long-term protection of restored areas. Berger’s experts have been entrusted with key roles on some of the highest-profile sediment sites, such as the Hudson, Passaic, and Fox Rivers. Their interpretations of highly complex systems have been tested by both independent peer reviewers and stakeholders. www.louisberger.com
SERDP is DoD’s environmental science and technology program, planned and executed in partnership with DOE and EPA, with participation by numerous other federal and nonfederal organizations. The Program invests across the broad spectrum of basic and applied research, as well as in exploratory development. SERDP focuses on cross-service requirements and pursues solutions to the Department’s most intractable environmental problems. Advances in the understanding and management of DoD’s resources support the long-term sustainability of training and testing ranges and facilities. Innovative environmental technologies significantly reduce current and future environmental liabilities. Advances in science and technology improve both the environment and the military performance of DoD systems. www.serdp.org
Sevenson Environmental Services, Inc. is one of the only pure environmental remediation firms that has successfully transitioned from land-based remedial action projects into contaminated sediments remediation. This transition began in 1993, when Sevenson was awarded and successfully completed the first large-scale Superfund site sediment remediation project. Since that project at the Marathon Battery Site in Cold Springs, New York on the Hudson River, Sevenson has gained significant insight and operational knowledge in environmental dredging, dewatering and water treatment. Sevenson continues to work on some of the nation’s most visible contaminated sediment sites. Sevenson owns and operates a full complement of horizontal auger and cutterhead dredges, specialized pumping systems, piping, tanks, filter presses, centrifuges and related water and filtrate treatment equipment to support its sediment dredging and dewatering projects. Sevenson dredges and dewaters sediments from lakes, rivers, creeks, coves, marshes, and waste ponds and pits. Today Sevenson partners with clients and consulting engineers to address difficult process design and field implementation issues at sediment sites throughout the United States. These partnerships have been tested and strengthened through the management, execution, and safe completion of our projects. www.sevenson.com
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