The 31st year of cooperative Sediment Management Annual Review Meetings was held jointly by the Department of Ecology's Sediment Management Standards Program (SMS) and the Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP) on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at the Corps of Engineers, Seattle District Building 1202. 

Please see below for links to documents and presentations from the meeting.  Please send any comments on the format or content from SMARM to CENWS-DMMOTeam@usace.army.mil by June 3rd, 2019.  We welcome your comments!

• Final SMARM 2019 Agenda
• Draft Information Paper - Description of Key Regulatory Guidelines on the Operation and Management of Non-Dispersive Open-Water Disposal Sites in Puget Sound

• Updates from the WA Department of Ecology Toxics Cleanup Program by Chance Asher, Ecology TCP
• New DMMP Issue Resolution Process by Brenden McFarland, Ecology SEA Program
• Microplastics in Puget Sound Sediments by Julie Masura, UW Tacoma
• Activated Carbon-Amended Enhanced Natural Recovery Results from the Lower Duwamish Waterway by Kristen Kerns, USACE Seattle District
• Aquatic Placement of Dredged Sediments: Interpreting Bioaccumulation by David Moore, U.S. Army ERDC
• Quantifying Variability of Laboratory Bioaccumulation Tests by David Moore, U.S. Army ERDC
• Dredging Year 2019 Year in Review by Heather Fourie, USACE Seattle District
• Disposal Site Shoreline Permitting by Celia Barton, DNR
• Key Regulations on the Operation of Open-Water Disposal Sites in Puget Sound by Kelsey van der Elst, USACE Seattle District
• Lessons Learned: 30 Years of Monitoring DMMP Disposal Sites by Lauran Warner, USACE Seattle District
• Dredged Material Management - the New England Experience by Steve Wolf, USACE New England District
• Managing Disposal to Prevent Off-Site Drift of Dredged Material by David Fox, USACE Seattle District
• Recap and Results from Monitoring Workshops: Monitoring Framework Status and Plans by Laura Inouye, Ecology

DMMP Project-Specific Issue Resolution Process

In 2016, the Washington State Legislature passed a proviso directing the Washington State Departments of Ecology (Ecology) and Natural Resources (DNR) to conduct a management review of the Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP). Ecology and DNR completed their review later that year and submitted a report to the Legislature entitled “Management Review of the Dredged Material Management Program”.  The report made a number of recommendations, including:

“Define a process in the User Manual that an applicant can use to elevate an individual project decision before the management of all four DMMP agencies. The process would include a threshold for elevating an issue, a process for resolving the issue, and a timeframe in which an applicant can expect a timely response.”

DMMP agency managers and staff developed an elevation process in the fall of 2018.  This process was presented and discussed at the 2019 SMARM.  Click the link below for more detailed information about the issue resolution process.

• DMMP Project-Specific Issue Resolution Process