Dredge City, instructor: Sean Burkholder. A sediment remediation facility; Toledo, OH.

Unprecedented levels of nutrients currently trigger toxic algae blooms and elicit Lake Erie as a restoration success story. The remediation and re-use of nutrient-laden dredge material are essential strategies within future restoration efforts.

Dredge City: sediment catalysis proposes the use of Edison Park in Toledo, Ohio as the site for both the processing of and exposure to sediment gouged from the Toledo Shipping Channel, the greatest producer of material within the Great Lakes system.

Dredge city was awarded the 2013 ASLA General Design Student Award of Excellence.