EBC 7th Annual Ocean Resource Management Conference
Update on Dredging In New England
Dredging is an important component of maintaining New England’s waterways:
 Navigation channels provide needed access for vessels importing/exporting goods to
our communities as well as bringing passengers to our shores for work and tourism.
What are today’s challenges surrounding dredging and dredged material
management? How are our navigation channels being maintained?
 Increasingly, energy projects are being sited near or in these navigation channels.
Can both uses coexist?
 Historic industrial uses along our shorelines have, in some cases, left behind legacy
contaminants that must be assessed and, if needed, removed to maintain the
economic vitality and health of our water bodies. What is being done to manage this
process?
 Management of dredged material can be a complex challenge from the perspective of
the competing uses of the waterways as well as balancing sustainability and the
environmental management of dredging projects. What are the current methods for
beneficial use and/or placement options for dredged material?
This EBC program will analyze and discuss these questions and update attendees on the
status of dredging and dredged material management in New England.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Location: TBD
Draft AGENDA
8:00 a.m.
Welcome
Daniel K. Moon, President EBC
Introduction Payson R. Whitney, Program Chair and Moderator
Vice President, ESS Group
8:20 a.m.
Overview of Issues Surrounding Dredging in New England
 Harlan M. Doliner, Verrill Dana
8:40 a.m.
Energy Facility Siting Relative to Federal Navigation Projects
 Payson Whitney, ESS Group
9:00 a.m.
Federal Navigation Project Dredging in New England
 Steve Wolf, USACE New England District
9:20 a.m.
Dredging for Remediation Projects
 Millie Garcia-Serrano, MassDEP
9:40 a.m.
Sediment and Dredged Material Management
 Eric Stern, Batelle
10:00 a.m.
Networking Break
10:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion:
Panel Moderator: Dwight Dunk, CDM Smith
 Harlan Doliner, Verrill Dana
 Payson Whitney, ESS Group
 Steve Wolf, US Army Corps of Engineers
 Millie Garcia-Serrano, Mass DEP
 Eric Stern, Batelle
11:30 a.m.
Adjourn
PROGRAM CHAIR
Payson R. Whitney, III, PE, Vice President
ESS Group
100 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451
781-419-7750 // pwhitney@essgroup.com
Mr. Whitney is a Vice President at ESS and leads the ESS Water and Coastal Engineering business
unit. He has over 18 years experience as a civil/coastal engineer and project manager. Mr. Whitney
specializes in planning, routing, surveying and installing High Voltage AC and DC submarine electric
transmission cable systems, landfall transitions, and interconnections with local grid substations. He
has conducted submarine cable routing, constructability, and installation assessments along the
eastern seaboard for some of the largest submarine cable system projects developed in the last 15
years, including projects located within and adjacent to highly used Federal Navigation Projects. He is
considered to be among the foremost submarine cable system planners in the industry with several
successful projects under his leadership. Mr. Whitney is a registered Professional Engineer in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
SPEAKERS
Harlan Doliner, Counsel, Head of Maritime Group
Verrill Dana, LLP
One Boston Place, Suite 1600, Boston, MA 02108
hdoliner @ verrilldana.com
617-309-2600
Harlan Doliner has been on EBC’s Board of Directors since 1994. He serves as Counsel at Verrill
Dana, a Portland, Maine based law firm with offices in Boston, Stamford and Washington, D.C. Mr.
Doliner chairs the firm’s Maritime Group and also practices in the Environmental and Energy Groups.
He has more than 35 years of experience in these areas of law, including over 15 years as a lead
counsel in the matters dealing with the cleanup of Boston Harbor. In addition to his law practice,
Harlan is an adjunct professor for the Law Schools at Boston College and at Roger Williams
University, and serves as a marine safety and environmental protection officer in the U.S. Coast
Guard Auxiliary. Harlan’s writings include all editions of the Fisheries and Wildlife Law chapter in
MCLE’s Massachusetts Environmental Law treatise. In 2012, University of Maine published Maritime
Cabotage Laws and Wind Power Installations in the Gulf of Maine, a chapter co-authored by Mr.
Doliner. Harlan earned his law degree from Boston College Law School and Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees from Johns Hopkins University.
Dwight R. Dunk, LP.D., PWS, Associate
CDM Smith Inc.
50 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
617 - 452-6601
Cell (781) 710-7305 dunkdr@cdmsmith.com
Millie Garcia-Serrano, Mass DEP
Eric Stern, Research Leader Sediment Management
Battelle
Eric is a Research Leader in Sediment Management for Battelle Memorial Institute (Energy and
Environment Business Global Business Unit/Environmental Solutions Services).
Eric leads
development and implementation of their Integrated Sediment Management (ISM) Practice and
growth strategy with a focus on sustainable innovative cross-program applications. Eric was the CoChair of the Battelle 7th International Conference on the Remediation of Contaminated - February 4-7,
2013 / Dallas, Texas USA.
Prior to Battelle, Eric spent 24 years in US Government both with the US Army Corps of Engineers,
NY District (USACE) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was an Environmental
Scientist/Oceanographer with EPA Region 2 New York, Division of Environmental Protection and
Planning – Dredging, Sediments and Ocean’s Team. His specialization is in contaminated sediments
and dredged material assessment/management, integrated sediment decontamination innovative
technology (treatment train) development, beneficial use of sediments, and Regional (Urban)
Sediment Management as it applies to sustainable practices in complex watershed systems and
applications to regional sediment processing facilities. Eric is an active member of the European
Union Sediment Network Research (SedNet) and was a participant/contributor to the SedNet
Treatment/Remediation Workgroup. He is a keynote and invited speaker on a global venue in the
subject area of sediment treatment/sustainability and Integrated Sediment Management. Eric has a
faculty appointment at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey as a Research Associate
Professor in the Graduate Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, and the Doctoral Program
in Environmental Management.
Steve Wolf, US Army Corps of Engineers – New England District
Mr. Wolf joined the Corps of Engineers in 2010 to manage the New England District's Disposal Area
Monitoring System (DAMOS) Program. The DAMOS Program, which dates back to 1977, monitors
in-water dredged material disposal sites from western Long Island Sound to Downeast Maine to
ensure that environmental impacts associated with the placement of dredged material are minimized
and to aid in the long-term management of placement sites. Prior to joining the Corps, Mr. Wolf spent
20+ years providing environmental consulting to both government and private sector clients with
projects ranging from coastal water quality monitoring to remediation of sediment Superfund sites.
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