Sediment Studies Services

ERD has performed numerous projects to evaluate the impacts of sediments on water quality, including projects in Lake Maggiore in St. Petersburg, FL, where in-lake isolation chambers were utilized to identify changes in water quality characteristics resulting from wave action within the lake and to determine the affect of dredging on lake water quality; in Megginnis Arm of Lake Jackson in Tallahassee, FL, where ERD performed another study utilizing isolation chambers to evaluate the impacts of sediment nutrient exchange on algal productivity; in East Lake, located in Tampa, FL, where ERD evaluated the impacts of sediment resuspension and recycling on water quality within the lake and as a component of the nutrient budget for the lake; and in the Winter Haven Chain-of-Lakes, where both in-lake isolation chambers and sediment incubation experiments were conducted to evaluate internal recycling and anticipated water quality improvements from proposed sediment dredging.