Project Name: New Jersey Marine Terminals Maintenance Dredging
Location: Port Newark, New Jersey
Project Sponsor: Port Authority of NY & NJ
Completion Date: May 2001
Estimated Value: $12,000,000

Project Description
Maintenance Dredging & Beneficial Use for Mine Reclamation, Brownfield Redevelopment.

Project Scope
CEDT contracted with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to conduct this maintenance dredging and beneficial use project. The $11.3 million dollar contract provided for maintenance dredging and upland recycling/beneficial use of up to 300,000 cubic yards of sediments from the Port Newark and Port Elizabeth Marine Terminal berthing areas. CEDT subcontracted dredging services to an outside subcontractor. The dredged sediments were transported to CEDT’s portside Claremont DMRF facility located in JerseyCity, New Jersey, on the Claremont Channel waterway. Upon receipt at the DMRF facility, the dredged sediments were physically dewatered, off-loaded, screened to remove oversize debris, pre-amended (solidified), and loaded into railcars for transport to CEDT’s Bark Camp Abandoned Mine Reclamation Facility in Pennsylvania. When received at Bark Camp, the pre-amended materials were off-loaded and transported via off-road trucks to CEDT’s staging & processing area at the mine facility. Additional amending reagents were then added to the pre-amended material to create a pozzolanic manufactured fill material. The stabilized material was then used to reclaim designated segments of the mine high-wall. Approximately 185,000 cubic yards of sediment from the Reaches B, C, and D of the New Jersey Marine Terminals were processed and utilized from this contract as part of the fullscale Demonstration Project at Bark Camp for reclaiming and capping mine lands utilizing stabilized dredged sediments. Additional sediment was processed at CEDT’s DMRF and shipped to local brownfield sites for use as grading material in conjunction with the approved remedial action workplans at the sites.