A wide variety of contaminants can be released into the water environment (egg through permitted discharges, accidental release, surface runoff and natural erosion). Once part of the water environment, contaminants can become associated with sediment through physical mixing or chemical reactions.

Contaminated sediment can pose environmental risks and present problems for the planning and delivery of constructions, management and maintenance activities in the water environment.

Contaminated sediment: a guide for risk assessment and management is available for order.

Objectives

This event will explore how risk that contaminated sediments  poses should be assessed and managed in the UK. It will also highlight innovative approaches in other countries.

It will also highlight good practice developed by the new CIRIA report C781 Contaminated sediment: a guide for risk assessment and management.

Programme

9.00        Coffee and registration

9.30        Introduction  
              Cecilia MacLeod, Greenwich University  

9.40       Contaminated sediments – how big is the problem and why bother?
              Jonathan Atkinson, EA

10.00     Managing the risk for contaminated sediments in the UK– new guidance
              Joanne Kwan, CIRIA
              Ian Dennis,  RHDHV

10.20     Tea and coffee

10.40     Dealing with leaching coastal landfills - do we really understand the risks and
              implications for sediment management –
             Speaker TBC

11.00    Demonstration field trial for stabilisation of contaminated sediments in
             Gothenburg Port
             Pete Seymour, Ecocem Materials Ltd

11.20     Questions and discussion

11.50     Lunch

12.50     Workshops 1 Sampling and analysis

13.35     Workshop 2 Dredging and other remedial options including selection

14.15     Workshops reporting

14.45     Discussion

15.00     Close

Who should attend

• Regulators of rivers, inland waterways and tidal waters,
• Managers and owners of rivers and inland waterways
• Managers and owners of tidal waters
• Engineering and environmental consultants, particularly those who design infrastructure in the water environment.
• Engineering and environmental works contractors who undertake construction activities in the water environment, including infrastructure contractors and specialist sediment management and dredging companies.
• Environmental and geotechnical site investigation contractors.
• Laboratories

Partners/Sponsors
CIRIA is looking for sponsors for this event. For more information please contact Joanne Kwan ([email protected])

Fees
- Non members: £95 + VAT
- CIRIA members: £50 + VAT

When 
10 April 2019
09:30 - 15:00