Subcommittees

• Beneficial Use of Dredged Material
• Regional Sediment Management
• Coastal and River Modeling and Analysis
• Wetland Engineering Guidelines
• Conference Planning
• Information Needs, Resources, and Dissemination

• To develop and offer policy upward on beneficial use of dredged material
• To develop documents on beneficial use of dredged material
• To conduct outreach

• ASCE Policy on Beneficial Use of Dredged Material
• White Paper, "Sediment as a Resource, not a Pollutant"
• Best Practices: Beneficial Use of Dredged Material
• Coastal Sediments 2007 Conference Session
• Beneficial Use Outreach Text

• ASCE Policy on Regional Sediment Management
• White Paper, "Flood Hazard Reduction and Habitat Protection through Wetland and Sediment Management"

• Kevin Coulton, kcoulton@watershedconcepts.com
• Nancy Powell, Nancy.J.Powell@mvn02.usace.army.mil

• To study and share information on techniques for computational modeling and data collection and dissemination
• To support computational modeling for wetland restoration, creation, protection and management and for managing sediments in or removed from coastal or inland projects

• Technical summary in form of a white paper, "State-of-the-art in Computational Hydrodynamic Modeling"
• Technical summary and recommendations, "State-of-the-art and Recommendations for Data Collection and Dissemination"

• Scott C. Hagen, shagen@mail.ucf.edu

• To develop engineering guidelines for the restoration of wetland systems that include both engineering and ecological considerations

• ASCE Policy on Louisiana Coastal Wetlands
• Regional Wetlands Restoration Guidelines
• Hydraulic, Hydrologic and Geotechnical Guidelines for Wetland Construction and Restoration
• Glossary of Terms spanning engineering and ecological disciplines
• Dedicated Journal

• Facilitate communication, collaboration, partnership and technical exchange with other organizations
• Promote themes, technical experts and sessions that support committee goals

• Joint Sponsorship of 3rd National Conference on Estuary Habitat Restoration, http://www.estuaries.org/
• Joint ASCE Conference on Wetland Engineering (With EWRI)

• Describe regional activities and organizations specific to wetland and sediment management.
• Identify and catalog relevant resources and research needs for the civil engineering and allied technical community.

• To identify wetland and sediment management resources and needs for the Civil Engineering and allied technical community
• To document and disseminate existing knowledge about wetlands and sediment management
• To develop a COPRI website for the Wetland & Sediment Management Committee

• Resource Guide Cataloging of Technology, Resources and Research Needs
• "History of Successful Wetland Projects"
• Special Journal Issue Article, "Wetland and Sediment Management Committee"