REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT FORUM
SEDIMENTS REMEDIATION ACTION TEAM

Progress Report
First Quarter 2002

Introduction

The Sediments Remediation Action Team is one of the six active Action Teams under the Remediation Technologies Development Forum (RTDF). The Sediments Remediation Action Team includes representatives from industry, government, and academia who share an interest in developing alternatives for remediating contaminated sediments.

This report documents progress of the Sediments Remediation Action Team during the first quarter of 2002.

Accomplishments

1. The Team held a meeting March 11-13 in Baltimore, Maryland. The agenda included a Team business session, rapid assessment workshop, renewable disposal workshop, and an overview of the Anacostia Watershed Toxics Alliance's (AWTA) work on its Contaminated Sediment Management Strategy (CSMS). AWTA held a separate meeting in Annapolis, Maryland on March 14 that focused on the monitoring section of the CSMS document and was attended by several Team members.
2. In addition to the March 14 meeting, members of the Team's Natural Recovery Subgroup continued to provide input on the CSMS document, including information on silt deposition within the river channel over the past 200 years and the need for additional cores to determine the stability of the sediments structure and the possibility of natural recovery.
3. The next Team meeting is scheduled for the week of October 21, 2002.