The 2009 American Association of Port Authorities has awarded the Port Hueneme Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) Project the Facilities Engineering Award of Excellence.  Crafted through a unique partnership, the project demonstrated excellence in harbor-wide contaminated sediment management strategy.  It marks the first time three agencies—the Oxnard Harbor District, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)—proactively designed and built a regional sediment management solution together.  Port Hueneme is also the first CAD facility to be successfully permitted and constructed in California and is one of only a handful in the U.S. built for the sole purpose of harbor-wide sediment management. 

The 15-meter-deep CAD facility was created by dredging 500,000 cubic meters of material, which was beneficially reused as beach nourishment at the nearby Hueneme Beach.  Once excavated, the CAD was filled with 330,000 cubic meters of contaminated sediment from Port Hueneme and capped with 3 meters of non-contaminated navigational dredge material.  An additional 1-meter thickness of armor rock was placed over a portion of the CAD to protect against propeller wash from U.S. Navy vessels.

Anchor QEA provided environmental review, permitting support, design, construction document development, and construction support for the Southern California CAD facility.