What are the benefits of Seaways Marine-Based Solids Management approach over traditional solids management methods?
Marine-Based Solids Management provides the means to collect, transport and dispose of contaminated sediments without the need for on-shore offloading, storage, dewatering , and solids transfer and land-based transportation facilities at the cleanup site. There is “minimal” disruption to the local community when a Seaway Marine-Based strategy is employed. The containerization of dredged sediment eliminates the transport of contaminated muds in open barges or the pumping of muds to large open shoreside storage lagoons. In addition, when compared to solids management requirements and the respective costs associated with hydraulic dredging operations, which include pumping, settling, dewatering, water treatment, and solids storage and transport operations, Seaway believes that Marine-Based Solids Management provides significant economic incentives.
