Barge Transport of Illinois River Sediment from Peoria to Chicago

Marlin, John C.

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Description

Title

Barge Transport of Illinois River Sediment from Peoria to Chicago

Author(s)

Marlin, John C.

Contributor(s)

Illinois Waste Management and Research Center

Issue Date

2004

Keyword(s)

• Sediment control -- Illinois -- Illinois River
• WMRC reports
• River sediments -- Illinois -- Illinois River Watershed -- Management
• Beneficial use of sediment

Abstract

A barge load of sediment excavated by clamshell from Lower Peoria Lake was shipped to Chicago, Ill. It was loaded onto trucks with a large excavator and placed at a conservation area and the Paxton I landfill reclamation site (Figures 1 and 2). The material handled well and maintained its consistency in the barge and after placing. It readily dumped from the trucks and formed piles about 2.5 feet high. The demonstration showed that this material can be transported and handled with conventional equipment and placed on fields without the necessity of using engineered containment structures.

Publisher

Illinois Waste Management and Research Center

Series/Report Name or Number

• TR Series (Waste Management and Research Center) ; TR-037
• Mud to Parks Project

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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