SEATTLE DISTRICT

SMARM 2018 was held on Wednesday, May 2.

Hosted by the Dredged Material Management Program (DMMP) and the Department Of Ecology Sediment Management Standards Program (SMS), SMARM is an annual meeting open to all.  Minutes from the meeting are here.

Presentations this year included (click links for presentations): 

• Ecology Toxics Cleanup Program Updates: New 2017/18 guidance and policies, future 2019 SCUM II revisions, and 2018/19 legislative budget by Chance Asher, Ecology

• Superfund sediment sites in Puget Sound: status and activities by Elly Hale, EPA

• Dredge Year 2018 Year-in-Review by Heather Fourie, USACE

• 2017 Monitoring at the Commencement Bay Site by Celia Barton, DNR

• Bioaccumulatives: Fall Workshop Download by Erika Hoffman, EPA

• PAHs at Elliott Bay and Port Gardner Disposal Sites and Potential Implications to Open-Water Dredged Material Disposal by Kathy Godtfredsen, Windward Environmental
• Commencement Bay Monitoring Retrospective by John Nakayama, NewFields
• Disposal Site Monitoring: Reconsidering the Framework by Lauran Warner, USACE

Posters presented during the afternoon poster session included (click links for poster PDFs): 

• Spatial Distribution of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Biomass in Puget Sound - Establishing a Baseline, Dany Burgess, Ecology
• Seagrass Response to Increased Sediment Deposition from Dam removal on the Elwha River (WA, USA), Bart Christiaen and Lisa Ferrier, DNR
• Changes in the Disposal Mound at the Commencement Bay Site Following Relocation of the Disposal Coordinates in 2007, Dave Fox, USACE
• 2014/2015 Nisqually Reach Benthic Trawl Survey Highlights, Heather Fourie, USACE
• Closing the PFAS Mass Malance - The TOP Assay, Kathy Kreps, TestAmerica
• Biological Monitoring of Dredged Material Disposal Sites offshore of the Mouth of the Columbia River, Bridgette Lohrman, EPA
• Supporting Studies and Baseline Survey at the Proposed North Head Nearshore Dredged Material Placement Area in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific County, Washington, James McMillian, USACE
• Lessons from 29 years of monitoring at the Commencement Bay Disposal site, Tacoma Washington, John Nakayama, NewFields
• Washington State Bathymetry Collection, Andrew Ryan and Casey Pruitt, DNR (link coming soon)
• Dioxin Testing in the Dredged Material Management Program: 1989-2016, Kelsey van der Elst and Lauran Warner, USACE
• The Anatomy of a Sediment Sampling and Characterization Project on the Pend Oreille River in Northwest Washinton State, Annika Wallendahl, Sound Earth Strategies