Sediment Investigations Services
Kinnetic Laboratories has successfully completed hundreds of projects involving contaminated sediments and/or dredge material sampling, testing, and data evaluations. These projects have involved offshore and in-harbor open water disposal, bury and cap solutions, terminal fill, and upland disposal projects. We use protocols that satisfy requirements of USEPA/USACE and local dredge materials guidance documents.
We also routinely serve as part of client or consultant project design teams that plan and execute extensive dredging and reuse/disposal of the resulting dredge materials. We prepare formal Contaminated Sediment Management Plans to facilitate project sediment balances for large, complex dredge projects to optimize reuse of dredge material as port or upland fill material.
Sediment quality studies have been successfully completed in rivers, lakes, estuaries, basins, and coastal environments. The studies are often associated with habitat assessments, watershed or point source discharges, contaminant load analyses (TMDLs), and compliance or permitting purposes.