Due to mostly natural processes, many waterways experience sediment buildup. Dredging keeps shipping channels and lakes open for their intended purposes.
MES has over 30 years of experience in engineering, construction, environmental management, and facility operations and maintenance related to dredging and dredged material containment facilities. These facilities become more than an environmentally safe location for dredged material; MES, on behalf of our partners, transforms these sites into wildlife habitats, natural recreation areas, and environmental education centers for Maryland citizens.
MES proudly supports our client, MDOT MPA, and their Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP). The MDOT MPA DMMP Annual Report for 2022 provides a synopsis of the MDOT MPA’s projects and successes, long-term dredged material management plans, as well as, their vision for 2023.
Dredging and construction services include:
- Feasibility Study Report development
- Environmental Site Assessments – Phase I and II
- NEPA documentation
- Permitting, regulatory agency coordination, and compliance
- Planning
- Mitigation planning, implementation, and monitoring
- Design and construction contract management
- Lake, pond, and river dredging
- Procurement development and management
- Dredged material containment facility construction
- Topographic and bathymetric surveys
- Dredged material innovative reuse
- Engineering and technical support for operations
- Site operations and maintenance
- Inspection of material placement
- Site dewatering and discharge monitoring
- Crust management and material consolidation
- Stormwater maintenance
- Sediment and erosion control monitoring
- NPDES monitoring
- Invasive species control
- Public outreach
- Forest conservation
- Wetland delineation
- Habitat quality monitoring
- Remediation planning and implementation
For more information, please contact Marni Dolinar.
The Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island is an environmental restoration project located in the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. The beneficial use project relies on dredged material collected from the approach channels to the Baltimore Harbor to restore lost remote island habitat within the Chesapeake Bay.
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