OAS prepared a comprehensive guidance document for restoration of marshes while beneficially using dredged sediments.  The handbook provides planning, design, construction, and monitoring approaches to facilitate the use of dredged sediments in National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) marsh restoration projects.  This document integrates the available information and past experience to provide streamlined guidance for successful marsh restorations using dredged sediments.  Management techniques are presented for a range of physical sediment properties and the expected delivery methods of dredged sediments along the U.S. Gulf Coast. This is the first such document to present the many factors in planning, designing and conducting restorations using dredged material. It focuses on the differences in construction using dredged sediments rather than conventional soils.

The document covers such topics as: