We handle a wide variety of sediment remediation projects, including those involving mercury, dioxin, PCBs and PAHs. Our capabilities also include in situ treatments and capping, river restoration and complex dredging.
Effectively Manage Contaminated Sediment
Creative and scientific resolutions for impacted sediment management and remediation challenges.
Contaminated sediments pose significant environmental and health risks. Remediation can be costly and complex, involving expectations from diverse stakeholders including regulatory bodies. These hurdles can increase costs, delay project timelines and complicate your long-term environmental goals.
TRC delivers innovative, science-based solutions to effectively remediate these complex sites and restore ecosystems.
Resolve Your Contaminated Sediment Challenges With TRC
TRC prides itself on developing effective solutions for our clients’ sediment remediation. Our scientific solutions and strategies rely on decades of engineering and construction management expertise. We utilize investigative methods, from risk evaluation to remedial options analysis, to efficiently manage impacted sediment at numerous complex project sites.
We have a long-standing reputation as a trusted engineer and remediation partner for projects including monitored natural recovery, thin layer covers recovery, capping, in situ treatment, river restoration, removal-in-the-dry and wet dredging approaches.
Comprehensive Sediment Remediation Solutions
We offer a comprehensive suite of services, from full-scale remediation and site restoration to strategic planning and risk assessments. By combining our technical expertise with cutting-edge technologies, we help your project progress smoothly.
We take a site-specific and holistic approach, to address remediation challenges to gain site closure. Our sediment remediation services include:
- Strategic and technical planning
- Regulatory and stakeholder group assistance
- Cost-effective site characterization
- Empirical and numerical modeling
- Ecological and human health risk assessments
- Bench- and pilot-scale studies
- Integrated shoreline development and contaminated sediment management
- Remedial alternatives analysis
- Sediment remediation design
- Remediation engineering services
- Phase I and site assessment services
- Risk assessment and toxicology services
- Public communications assistance, such as visual presentations of proposed remedies and technical and risk communications
- Permit acquisition
- Innovative sediment capping and in situ treatment technologies
- Environmental dredging
- Construction management and turnkey solutions
- Site restoration
- Performance-based remediation, delivering cost, schedule, and regulatory certainty
- Remedy performance monitoring
- Cost allocation expertise like PCBs, mercury, dioxin, PAHs, in-depth knowledge of related industrial processes
- Natural resource damage assessment assistance
Frequently Asked Questions
These common questions can help you better understand the key details of our services and the ins and outs of sediment remediation. If you have additional questions, contact us.
We offer tailored solutions that focus on risk-based decision-making, innovative remediation technologies and efficient site characterization. Our performance-based remediation ensures schedule and cost certainty to help your organization meet its financial and regulatory objectives.
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Partner With TRC’s Industry-Leading Sediment Experts Today
At TRC, we understand that every sediment remediation project is unique. Our client-centered approach focuses on providing tailored solutions that meet your operational requirements and regulatory demands.
Contact us today for more information or to schedule your consultation.
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White Papers / Reports
Treatment of PFAS to Allow for Beneficial Use of Impacted Dredged Sediments
July 18, 2024
Approximately 200 to 300 million cubic yards of sediment are dredged each year by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and other federal interests (USEPA, 2007).
Regulatory Updates
EPA Issues Clarification of Free Product Removal Requirements
June 20, 2023
EPA recently clarified requirements for LNAPL recovery and remediation.
Regulatory Updates
Proposed MCLGs and MCLs for PFAS
March 15, 2023
Final Regulatory Determination for Contaminants on the Fourth Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List
Resources
Odor Evaluation Services
February 23, 2023
TRC is nationally recognized as an expert in the field of odor measurement, identification, modeling and control engineering. This presentation includes an overview of odor properties, odor evaluation, modeling and odor thresholds and outlines the four sensory properties: detectability, intensity, character and hedonic tone.
Resources
Metals 101
February 8, 2023
Metals are naturally occurring elements in the Earth’s crust that enter the environment through natural processes. They can be found in groundwater, soil and sediment. The trophic transfer of these elements in aquatic and terrestrial food chains has important implications for wildlife and human health.
Insights
Implementing bioremediation at environmental cleanup sites: TRC experts weigh in at leading industry conference
May 17, 2021
TRC experts make several presentations at the Battelle conference about innovative approaches they have developed for implementing and monitoring bioremediation and the use of naturally-occurring or deliberately-introduced micro-organisms to break down environmental pollutants.