Environmental Dredging

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the Massachusetts

Problem: Cleanup crews wanted to dredge radioactive sludge from hazardous waste pits without releasing contaminants to the environment.

Project Details Historical Overview The primary contaminant of concern in the Grasse River Study Area is PCBs, and a critical

The Mud Cat dredgehead has very high precision, minimum turbidity and low water flow as its special features. Long-term

By Michael R. Walsh, P.E., Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers At Eagle River

Bay West, Inc., an environmental and industrial services company with headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, has purchased an Mud Cat

When the operations manager at the Fernald, Ohio Super Fund Site Remedial Action Project needed a dredge to remediate sludge from

In a 2007 study sponsored by the EPA entitled “Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites: Assessing the Effectiveness,”

Over the years, Mud Cat dredges have received many favorable reviews from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The need to remove contaminated sediments located under a column is increasing. Modern, small hydraulic dredges often are the most

What are PCBs? How did PCBs get in the Hudson River? PCB contamination is considered the most serious environmental

The Corps further found that the “Mud Cat’s patented retractable mud shield, which surrounds the cutterhead, entraps

The Sierra Club has published a bulletin about how dredging is frequently the best mechanism to remove contaminated

“Dredging Declared a Success,” says EPA and Georgia Pacific November 2000 Fort James Corporation (NYSE:FJ) announced