Case Study
Green Book Testing for Dredged Materials Disposal
Green Book Testing for Dredged Materials Disposal Challenge The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers needed extensive chemical analysis of dredged materials to support required Green Book testing. The Green Book requires that dredged material undergo extensive material evaluation studies prior to ocean disposal. Solution Battelle provided the full spectrum of analytical chemistry services required for Green Book testing, including field sampling; preparation of conventional and modified elutriates; and analysis of sediment, site water, elutriate, and biological tissue for trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners, dioxin and furans, and organotin compounds. Outcome Our advanced analytical meth