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Literature References

Characterization of Sediments
USEPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation

This is a searchable database that contains numerous abstracts on sampling and analyzing sediments. Click on needs area, then select Sampling and Analytical Technologies for Potentially Contaminated Sediment, click on Submit Query. The database can also be searched on keywords. It is updated on a quarterly basis.

Contaminated Sediments Research
EPA, Office of Research and Development

Environmental Effects & Dredging and Disposal
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

This is a searchable literature database comprised of technical references covering a diverse range of topics related to environmental effects of dredging and dredged material disposal projects. While useful, it tends to be dated. There are abstracts and citations, as well as fully downloadable documents.

NATO/CCMS Pilot Study: Prevention and Remediation Issues in Selected Industrial Sectors - Sediments - Ljubljana, Slovenia June 17-22, 2007

Abstracts
Presentations

The meeting dealt with the issues of sediment sites and questions of contamination by persistent organic pollutants; 19 technical presentations were given in the broad areas of sediment characterization and remediation.

Sediment Toxicology
USGS Columbia Missouri Office

This Web page contains numerous primarily USGS produced documents and studies concerning toxicity assessments of sediment.

Work Groups

The Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET)

CICEET develops and applies tools to detect, prevent, and reverse the impacts of coastal pollution and habitat degradation on coastal ecosystems and communities.

International Association for Great Lakes Research

This Web site contains literature and data on contaminated sediments in and around the Great Lakes.

Web Sites

Commencement Bay-Nearshore Tideflats
USEPA Region 10

The Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats (CB/NT) Superfund site is located in the City of Tacoma and the Town of Ruston at the southern end of Puget Sound in Washington. It encompasses an active commercial seaport and includes 12 square miles of shallow water, shoreline, and adjacent land, most of which is highly developed and industrialized. EPA placed the site on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1983 due to widespread contamination of the water, sediments, and upland areas. The site is divided into a number of separate Project Areas being managed as distinct sites.

Contaminated Sediments in Water
USEPA Office of Water

This Web page contains a number of links to various EPA documents and other agency websites and documents.

Dredging Operations and Environmental Research
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

This is the front page of the Dredging Operations and Environmental Research Laboratory. It contains links to numerous downloadable manuals and technical reports on all aspects of dredging.

Fluvial Sediment
U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Surface Water

This Web site is devoted to sediment issues in general and provides links to conferences, publications, and training

Interactive Sediment Remedy Assessment Portal (ISRAP)
U.S. Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), May 2010

This online interactive resource is designed to provide information on monitoring requirements and monitoring tools associated with sediment remediation, as well as understanding data needs during RI/FS, especially as they pertain to remedies themselves, and post-remedy monitoring. The main feature is the sediment monitoring tools matrix, a database of sediment monitoring tool information to facilitate the design and optimization of sediment monitoring programs.

Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise

This Web site provides information on the Army Corps of Engineers coastal mapping activities. It has an extensive list of publications, many of which are downloadable.

Lower Duwamish Waterway Cleanup Areas
USEPA Region 10

EPA, Ecology, other government agencies, and private parties are working to clean up the Lower Duwamish Waterway. The cleanups are under EPA's Superfund program, EPA's Resource Conservation and Recovery Act program, and other authorities. The areas listed on this site are at various stages in the cleanup process.

Pesticide National Synthesis Project
USGS, National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program

Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group: Oregon DEQ Upland Sites Map

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has lead responsibility for cleanup of upland sites along the Portland Harbor. This site contains a map from the DEQ with links to information about each site.

Rouge River Project

This website contains information regarding the characterization and cleanup efforts in the Rouge River watershed. It provides examples of inventorying, characterization (sample and analysis of sediments) and cleanup (lake sediment dredging of PCB contaminated sediments.)

SedWeb

An online site designed by the South and Southwest region of the Hazardous Substance Research Centers (HSRC), to promote improvements in contaminated sediments management and research. It contains links to a variety of organizations concerned with sediments. Updating of the site ended September 2007.

Multimedia Resources

CLU-IN Archived Internet Seminars
CLU-IN archived Internet Seminars are two-hour web-based slide presentations with a companion audio portion. Below are past seminars on DNAPL topics. Check the website for future seminar dates.

Remediation of Contaminated Sediments: Technical Options and Environmental Consequences
Patterson, J.W.
Georgia Institute of Technology: 2011 Kappe Lecture. Lecture and video runtime: 54:11 minutes, 2011

This lecture focuses on the Lower Fox River (LFR), Wisconsin, a megasite that comprises ~39 miles of the LFR as well as the Bay of Green Bay and is one of the nations' largest sediment remediation sites. An estimated 279,000 to 881,000 pounds of PCBs were released to the river, almost entirely prior to 1972. The advantages and risks of alternative contaminated sediment remedial approaches and the utility of multiple approaches within individual sites are discussed.

Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) for PAH in Sediment Pore Water
U.S. Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Environmental Restoration Technology Transfer, Multimedia Training Tools Website, 2011

SPME provides an analytical means for direct measurement of dissolved-phase concentrations of PAHs in sediment pore water (the water between the sediment particles). A case study is presented that demonstrates the application of the SPME analytical method at a DoD site.

T2 Contaminated Sediment Web Portal
Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Environmental Restoration Technology Transfer, Multimedia Training Tools Web site.

The Navy has developed training tools for sediment cleanup. The Navy Sediment Investigation Data Sheet and Sediment Guide Data Sheet illustrate how to perform site characterization and risk assessment prior to remedy selection. Degradation of Ordnance Constituents in Marine Sediments is applicable to assessment of ecological risks. Sediment Remedy Effectiveness examines three sediment remedies: environmental dredging, in situ capping, and monitored natural recovery. Sediment Monitored Natural Recovery (MNR) explains the procedures involved in leaving sediments in place, relying upon effective source control, and verifying ongoing natural processes to reduce environmental risks posed by contamination.

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