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In the United States, billions of dollars are spent on environmental dredging projects to remediate contaminated sediments [United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) 2016, 2017; Haggard 2017]. A primary goal of such efforts is to reduce risks to human health and aquatic organisms and associated food webs that depend on these waterbodies. Clearly, there is great need to protect at-risk communities from harm arising from pollution, but it remains unclear to what extent dredging is reducing these risks. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.