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Coastal agency urges investment in dredge disposal cells, flags staff limits for rising offshore work
Summary
The Coastal Resources Management Council told the Senate Finance Committee the agency needs capital support for confined aquatic disposal (CAD) cells to manage contaminated dredge material and warned staffing is insufficient to review multiple offshore wind projects and other growing workloads.
The director of the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) told the Senate Finance Committee that rising sea levels, more frequent storms and pending navigation projects require the state to invest in new confined aquatic disposal (CAD) cells to manage contaminated dredge material.
Director Wills explained the Army Corps’ planned Providence River dredging will produce material with chemical contaminants unsuitable for open‑water disposal; the preferred long‑term management approach is to place those materials into engineered CAD cells near Fields Point. The state would cost‑share construction and then manage the site for future disposal needs, the director said.
CRMC uses NOAA’s intermediate sea‑level projections and a suite of mapping tools to require applicants to evaluate future flood and…
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