Comprehensive Environmental Management
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – Port Everglades, Port Everglades Comprehensive Environmental Management Program (click here to view award entry)
The Port Everglades Comprehensive Environmental Management Program successfully implements environmental compliance activities to meet regulatory requirements, and to voluntarily implement environmental stewardship initiatives to provide additional benefit to the environment. Port Everglades opened in 1928, and this comprehensive environmental program has existed since at least 1987.
The objectives of this program have always been to successfully implement environmental compliance activities and voluntarily implement environmental stewardship initiatives, using all applicable methods.
AWARD OF DISTINCTION – Port of Everett, Port of Everett's Innovative Dredge Material Management Program (click here to view award entry)
The Port of Everett's Dredge Material Management Program (DMMP) represents a regulatory body that determines how in-water sediment is to be handled and it is comprised of representatives from
the Department of Ecology, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Agency. The Port of Everett’s dredging project brings together economic development, environmental remediation, and complex regulatory work, centering at its marina, which is a critical feature of its $500 million mixed use redevelopment known as Waterfront Place Central.
AWARD OF MERIT – Massachusetts Port Authority, Conley Terminal Modernization Program Soil Reclamation & Reuse Initiatives (click here to view award entry)
To maintain its competitiveness, in 2014, the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) commenced the Conley Terminal Modernization Program, an $800 MM investment into the infrastructure of the Port of Boston. This Program included partnering with the US Army Corps of Engineers on the dredging and deepening of the Boston Harbor, rehabilitation of two existing berths at Conley Terminal, construction of a new deep-water berth and expansion of Conley Terminal yard onto an adjacent property, the location of a former oil storage facility. Rather than manage these projects piecemeal, Massport recognized the opportunity to develop and execute a comprehensive and cost-effective Soil Management Program to test, manage, treat, process, and reuse soils onsite for all construction projects at Conley.
HONORABLE MENTION - Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, Yard Tractor Electrification Study (click here to view award entry)
The Yard Tractor Electrification Study was conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in conjunction with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) and three marine terminal operator tenants. Over the course of three months, NREL collected information through the installation of onboard data logging devices onto 36 yard tractors at three terminals, recording 21,219 miles of operation and over 26 million seconds of data. The final report provides characterization of yard tractor usage at each terminal, evaluates the feasibility for fleet electrification, and identifies performance requirements for battery electric yard tractors to operate within the terminals with little to no operational impact.
Mitigation
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – Maryland Port Administration, Algal Flow Way (click here to view award entry)
The Maryland Department of Transportation – Maryland Port Authority (MDOT-MPA) has been leading the way in the Chesapeake Bay with its integrated Algal Flow-Way Technology (AFT), Digester, and Fuel Cell Demonstration Project , initiated in 2013 to evaluate the technology as an innovative nutrient removal practice for improving water quality and help Maryland meet its Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) pollution reduction requirements. Since then, the AFT has been removing excess nitrogen, phosphorus and suspended sediment from Baltimore Harbor and producing valuable data and information that is being used to prove the pollutant removal value and energy production potential of biogas from this innovative technology.
AWARD OF DISTINCTION – Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, Dredge Material Center of Innovation (click here to view award entry)
Toledo Harbor has a 25-mile federal shipping channel that must be maintained to adequate depth to support safe navigation. To keep the Port operating, around 850,000 - 1 million cubic yards (CY) of sediment should be dredged annually from the Toledo Harbor’s federal and non-federal channels. The Ohio Lake Erie Commission pursued and received a $250,000 U.S. EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant in 2010 that was sub-granted to the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority to assist the Toledo Harbor Task Force with developing a Toledo Harbor Sediment Management & Use Plan. The concept of the Agricultural Field Improvement Option is to pump dredge slurry or truck dry dredged material to existing agricultural land.
Stakeholder Awareness, Education & Involvement
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – Port of Tacoma, Port of Tacoma Habitat Restoration Story Map (click here to view award entry)
The Port of Tacoma (Port) had big plans in store for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in 2020, including several exciting hands-on community activities and events at the Port’s habitat sites. The Port created an interactive web application (or story map) that links narratives, photos, videos, and maps to entertain and educate the community about the Port’s habitat restoration efforts. The Port of Tacoma Habitat Restoration Story Map demonstrates how the Port’s investments in habitat development and restoration are making a positive impact on the health of fish and wildlife in and around the Tacoma Tideflats.
