Sediment Assessment, Management and Remediation
Remediating contaminated sediment requires credible and well-founded investigation, assessment and mitigation strategies. Potentially Responsible Parties depend on sound science, effective engineering and fiscal prudence to reduce risk from sediment sites—whether in a creek, river, lake, pond, estuary or harbor.
ARCADIS is a global sediment leader with cleanups at nearly 200 aquatic sites in the United States and abroad in the last 25 years. Our excellence in design, construction, disposal options, monitoring and maintenance distinguishes us. Multinational firms rely on ARCADIS to remediate sediment sites—from a few hundred to several million cubic yards—with experience-tested expertise ranging from environmental permitting and analysis to human health and ecological risk assessment to community relations.
ARCADIS delivers these sediment services:
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Design and implementation of traditional and innovative remediation/restoration alternatives, including institutional controls, monitored natural attenuation, capping and armoring, dredging and hot-spot removal, and habitat restoration
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Effective and reliable aquatic studies and sediment assessments featuring sampling and analysis of sediment cores, surface water, pore water and biota
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Negotiation and litigation assistance, including natural resource damage assessment, expert witness testimony, consent order and work plan negotiation
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Remedial investigations, feasibility studies and corrective measures studies
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Investigation of constituent transport in sediment, water column and biota
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Bench- and pilot-scale treatability studies
World-class expertise
ARCADIS' consistently high-ranked sediment management practice taps the talents of leaders in ecology, toxicology, hydrogeology, environmental chemistry, and civil, chemical, and environmental engineering.
Specialized Services