Pennsylvania has over 83,000 miles of streams and rivers and over 4,000 lakes, reservoirs, ponds and wetlands. That is about 2.5 trillion gallons of surface water, which does not include the 80 trillion gallons of groundwater below the surface.
Dredged Sediment
Removal of sediment is necessary for good water depth and water quality. If silt is not removed it builds up, making the water more shallow and creates an environment for algae and other undesirable stagnancy.
Dredged material has many beneficial uses such as the following:
Brownfield, Super Fund site remediation, landfill cover, construction site fill, nutrient rich topsoil, habitat restoration, environmental restoration (bioremediation) and greenspace creation in urban environments to name a few.

“Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud.”