Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428984569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Sediment quality and polychlorinated biphenyls in the lower Neponset River, Massachusetts, and implications for urban river restoration
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428984569
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Sediment Quality and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Lower Neponset River, Massachusetts, and Implications for Urban River Restoration
Author: Robert F. BreaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Scientific Investigations Report
Author: Contaminated Soils, Sediments and Water Volume 10
Author: Edward J. CalabresePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387283242
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Every spring, the University of Massachusetts - Amherst welcomes all ''Soils Conference" Scientific Advisory Board members with open arms as we begin the planning process responsible for bringing you quality conferences year after year. With this "homecoming" of sorts comes the promise of reaching across the table and interacting with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, each of them bringing their unique perspective in support of a successful Conference in the fall. This year marks the 20^^ anniversary of what started as a couple of thoughtful scientists interested in developing partnerships that together could fuel the environmental cleanup dialogue. Since the passage of the Superfund Law, regulators, academia and industry have come to realize that models that depend exclusively on ''command and control" mandates as the operative underpinning limit our collective ability to bring hazardous waste sites to productive re-use. It is with this concern in mind that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection privatized its cleanup program in 1993, spurring the close-out of over 20,000 sites and spills across the Commonwealth to date, in a manner that is both protective of human health and the environment while also flexible and responsive to varied site uses and redevelopment goals. So we gather together again, this year, to hear our collective stories and share success and challenges just as we share stories at a family gathering. Take a read through the stories contained in these proceedings.
Sediment Quality in the North Coastal Basin of Massachusetts, 2003
Author: Robert F. BreaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lake sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Sediment Quality of Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries in the Mystic River Basin, Eastern Massachusetts, 2001-03
Author: Robert F. BreaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Sediment Studies in the Assabet River, Central Massachusetts, 2003
Author: Marc James ZimmermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : River sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Estimated Sediment Thickness, Quality, and Toxicity to Benthic Organisms in Selected Impoundments in Massachusetts
Author: Robert F. BreaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Benthos
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, Division of Ecological Restoration, collaborated to collect baseline information on the quantity and quality of sediment impounded behind selected dams in Massachusetts, including sediment thickness and the occurrence of contaminants potentially toxic to benthic organisms. The thicknesses of impounded sediments were measured, and cores of sediment were collected from 32 impoundments in 2004 and 2005. Cores were chemically analyzed, and concentrations of 32 inorganic elements and 108 organic compounds were quantified. Sediment thicknesses varied considerably among the 32 impoundments, with an average thickness of 3.7 feet. Estimated volumes also varied greatly, ranging from 100,000 cubic feet to 81 million cubic feet. Concentrations of toxic contaminants as well as the number of contaminants detected above analytical quantification levels (also known as laboratory reporting levels) varied greatly among sampling locations. Based on measured contaminant concentrations and comparison to published screening thresholds, bottom sediments were predicted to be toxic to bottom-dwelling (benthic) organisms in slightly under 30 percent of the impoundments sampled. Statistically significant relations were found between several of the contaminants and individual indicators of urban land use and industrial activity in the upstream drainage areas of the impoundments. However, models developed to estimate contaminant concentrations at unsampled sites from upstream landscape characteristics had low predictive power, consistent with the long and complex land-use history that is typical of many drainage areas in Massachusetts.
Restoring an urban river--polychlorinated biphenyls and other contaminants in bottom sediment of the lower Neponset River, Massachusetts
Author: Robert F. BreaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The Incidence and Severity of Sediment Contamination in Surface Waters of the United States
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Contaminated sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description