What may look like regular old dirt to most is gold to the city of Lorain (OH ) or at the very least dirt that you might one day buy to place in your garden. In a site along the Black River, the city launched a pilot program in 2020 where they created what's called a GeoPool. It's where sediment that is dredged out of the Black River was placed into the man-made area that acts like a giant coffee filter. "And then that GeoPool will de-water the dredged material and produce a sellable soil material that than can be introduced into the market," said "Picture it as sort of a giant above-ground swimming pool, and that pool has permeable edges, so the dredge slurry is pumped into that facility and de-watered through the edges and the bottom, and then what's left in the facility is the sediment that can then be excavated out with machinery and processed for reuse."
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