MAINTAINING ACCESS TO AMERICA'S INTERMODAL PORTS/TECHNOLOGIES FOR DECONTAMINATION OF DREDGED SEDIMENT [electronic resource] : NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY HARBOR

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Research, 1998.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 28 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Research, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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One of the greatest drivers for maintaining access to America's Intermodal ports and related infrastructure redevelopment efforts over the next several years will be the control and treatment of contaminated sediments dredged from the nation's waterways. More than 306 million cubic meters (m³) (400 million cubic yards [cy]) of sediments are dredged annually from US waterways, and each year close to 46 million m³ (60 million cy) of this material is disposed of in the ocean (EPA 842-F-96-003). The need to protect the environment against undesirable effects from sediment dredging and disposal practices is gaining increased attention from the public and governmental agencies. Meeting this need is a challenging task not only from the standpoint of solving formidable scientific and engineering problems, but also, and more importantly, from the need to implement complex collaborations among the many different parties concerned with the problem. Some 40 years ago, C.P. Snow pointed out the problems involved in communicating between the two cultures of the sciences and the humanities (Snow, 1993). Today, it is necessary to extend Snow's concept to a multicultural realm with groups that include governmental, industrial, environmental, academic, and the general public communicating in different languages based on widely different fundamental assumptions. The handling of contaminated sediments in the Port of New York/New Jersey (Port) exemplifies this problem. This paper describes a multicultural team that has formed as the result of a Congressional mandate for the development of procedures suitable for the decontamination of sediments in the Port under the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 1992 (Section 405C) and 1996 (Section 226).

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E 1.99:bnl--65254
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Environmental Sciences

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Published through SciTech Connect.
05/01/1998.
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1998 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RENEWING AMERICA THROUGH ENGINEERING, NEW YORK, NY (US), 05/19/1998--05/23/1998.
JONES,K.; STERN,E.A.; MENSINGER,M.C.; WILDE,C.L.; CLESCERI,N.L.; DOTO,K.; PAULING,J.D.; SONTAG,J.G.

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AC02-98CH10886

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