Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§419a Management Practices to Extend Capacity and Useful Life of Dredged Material Disposal Areas
Title 33 › Chapter 9— PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › Subchapter I— IN GENERAL › § 419a
Summary
The Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, must use and promote practices that make places where dredged material is stored last longer and hold more, so new sites are needed as little as possible. These practices include building dikes, consolidating and dewatering the dredged material (making it settle and dry), and adding drainage and outflow systems.
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Title 33, §419a
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The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall utilize and encourage the utilization of such management practices as he determines appropriate to extend the capacity and useful life of dredged material disposal areas such that the need for new dredged material disposal areas is kept to a minimum. Management practices authorized by this section shall include, but not be limited to, the construction of dikes, consolidation and dewatering of dredged material, and construction of drainage and outflow facilities.
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33 U.S.C. § 419a
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60