[PDF] Proposed Instrumentation Program For Dredging Disposal Facility Site 14 Cleveland Harbor Ohio eBook

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309134102

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Some of the nation's estuaries, lakes and other water bodies contain contaminated sediments that can adversely affect fish and wildlife and may then find their way into people's diets. Dredging is one of the few options available for attempting to clean up contaminated sediments, but it can uncover and re-suspend buried contaminants, creating additional exposures for wildlife and people. At the request of Congress, EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate dredging as a cleanup technique. The book finds that, based on a review of available evidence, dredging's ability to decrease environmental and health risks is still an open question. Analysis of pre-dredging and post-dredging at about 20 sites found a wide range of outcomes in terms of surface sediment concentrations of contaminants: some sites showed increases, some no change, and some decreases in concentrations. Evaluating the potential long-term benefits of dredging will require that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency step up monitoring activities before, during and after individual cleanups to determine whether it is working there and what combinations of techniques are most effective.

Author : Yung-Tse Hung
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9814327697

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This is a compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many technical advances and practices in air and water control. These include air pollution control, water pollution control, water treatment, wastewater treatment, industrial waste treatment and small scale wastewater treatment.

Author : Alena Mudroch
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1994-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781566700276

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This up-to-date revision of a bestseller sets the standard for planning and implementing cost-effective sediment sampling programs. Handbook of Techniques for Aquatic Sediments Sampling, Second Edition is the only comprehensive text on procedures for sampling bottom sediments, suspended sediments, and sediment pore water. Practical guidance is also provided for sample handling and preservation to ensure accurate physicochemical analysis. No other reference source provides more tools for obtaining representative samples for evaluating potential contaminant effects on aquatic environments.

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Sediment Oversight Technical Committee
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN :

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This document is a compendium of scientifically valid and accepted methods that can be used to assess sediment quality and predict ecological impacts...the intent here is to provide the most useful overall measures or predictors of ecological impacts currently in use rather than procedures that may have limited application outside of a particular regulatory framework... parag The information provided in the compendium on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the different assessment methods can provide assistance in selecting the appropriate methods.