SedNet - European Sediment Network services

Since a long time SedNet wishes to compile all relevant experience in sediment management in a guidance document. Also SedNet would like to communicate with and educate students and other interested people about sediment management. In this way our work will be better understood and appreciated. To achieve this SedNet organized the first workshop/meeting of the SedNet Working Group “Education-Science-Policy Interfacing & Sediment Management Concepts” (WG ESPI-SMC) on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of November 2019 in Madrid. During the workshop experiences of setting up sediment management concepts of the Rhine, Elbe and Scheldt were exchanged. Also the lessons learned of making a sediment guidance document made in the USA in 2005 were presented.

Sediment quality has been at the core of SedNet activities since its inception, promoting and facilitating the exchange among experts and stakeholders on sediment quality and sediment risk assessment from a management perspective. The SedNet Working Group on Sediment Quality aims to coordinate SedNet activities in this thematic area, being a multidisciplinary platform for communication and education about sediment quality and risk assessment and the needs for future action in policy making, also acting as the contact point at SedNet for sediment quality related questions.