The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Huntington District (LRH) oversees various water quality and sediment monitoring programs across Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. The LRH covers approximately 45,000 square miles of drainage area, with nine river basins flowing into a 311-mile stretch of the Ohio River. The LRH monitors 35 flood control projects in […]
New Bedford Harbor is fed by the Acushnet River from the north and drains into the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Its steady flow is one of the reasons so many industrial plants set up shop along the harbor in the early 1900s.
A barge-mounted hydraulic dredge was used to remove the contaminated sediment, which was pumped from the Spring Creek Arm through a pipeline to a disposal.
In an effort to dredge the contaminated sediment, a New York consulting firm contacted NexSens Technology for a turbidity monitoring system.
NexSens engineered a buoy-based system with real-time data telemetry for monitoring turbidity during dredge projects.
