Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Executive summary. Findings and recommendations. Extent of contamination. National perspective on sediment quality / Christopher Zarba
  • National status and trends program for marine environmental quality / Andrew Robertson and Thomas P. O'Connor. Classification of contaminated sediments. Use of apparent effects threshold approach (AET) in classifying contaminated sediments / Robert Barrick, Harry Beller, Scott Becker, and Thomas Ginn
  • The use of sediment quality triad in classification of sediment contamination / Edward R. Long
  • A review of the data supporting the equilibrium partitioning approach to establishing sediment quality criteria / Dominic M. Di Toro
  • Marine sediment toxicity tests / Richard C. Swartz. Significance of contamination. Effects of contaminated sediments on benthic biota and communities / K. John Scott
  • Sediment contamination and marine ecosystems: potential risks to human health / Donald C. Malins. Mobilization and resuspension. Predicting the dispersion and fate of contaminated marine sediments / Y. Peter Sheng
  • Computer simulation of DDT distribution in Palos Verdes shelf sediments / Bruce E. Logan, Robert G. Arnold, and Alex Steele. Assessment and selection of remedial technologies. Management strategies for disposal of contaminated sediments / M.R. Palermo, C.R. Lee, and N.R. Francingues
  • Alternatives for control/treatment of contaminated dredged material / M. John Cullinane, jr., Daniel E. Averett, Richard A. Shafer, James W. Male, Clifford L. Truitt, and Mark R. Bradbury
  • Developments in equipment designed for handling of contaminated sediments / John B. Herbich
  • Monitoring the effectiveness of capping for isolating contaminated sediments / Robert W. Morton
  • Remedial technologies used at international joint commission areas of concern / Ian Orchard
  • Economic considerations of managing contaminated marine sediments / Thomas A. Grigalunas and James J. Opaluch. Case studies. New Bedford Harbor Superfund Project / Allen J. Ikalainen and Douglas C. Allen
  • Physical transport investigations at New Bedford, Massachusetts / Allen M. Teeter
  • PCB pollution in the Upper Hudson River / John E. Sanders
  • Contamination of the Hudson River: the sediment record / Richard F. Bopp and H. James Simpson
  • Kapone and the James River / Robert J. Huggett
  • Assessment of contaminated sediments in Commencement Bay (Puget Sound, Washington) / Thomas C. Ginn
  • St. Paul Waterway Remedial Action and Habitat Restoration Project / Jerry K. Ficklin, Don E. Weitkamp, and Ken S. Weiner
  • Dredging and disposal of contaminated marine sediment for the U.S. Navy Carrier Battlegroup Homeport Project, Everett, Washington / Edward Lukjanowicz, J. Richard Faris, Paul F. Fuglevand, and Gregory L. Hartman. Appendix A. Biographies of committee members
  • Appendix B. Coastal states survey
  • Appendix C. Workshop participants
  • Appendix D. Agenda.