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Decision-Making Framework for Management of Dredged Material Disposal

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Navigable waterways of the United States have played a vital role in the nation’s economic growth through the years. The US Army Corps of Engineers (CE), in fulfilling its mission to maintain, improve, and extend these waterways, is responsible for the dredging and disposal of large volumes of sediment each year. Dredging is a process by which sediments are removed from the bottom of streams, rivers, lakes, and coastal waters; transported via ship, barge, or pipeline; and discharged to land or water. Annual quantities of dredged material average about 290 million m3 in maintenance dredging operations and about 78 million m3 in new, work-dredging operations with the total annual cost now exceeding $250 million.

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  1. Chief Contaminant Mobility and Regulatory Criteria Group, Environmental Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, P.O. Box 631, 39180, Vicksburg, MS, USA

    Charles Richard Lee

  2. Battelle, Ocean Sciences, 397 Washington St., 02332, Duxbury, MA, USA

    Richard Knox Peddicord

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    Wim Salomons

  2. Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Arbeitsbereich Umweltschutztechnik, Harburger Schloßstraße 20, Postfach 90 14 03, D-2100, Hamburg 90, Germany

    Ulrich Förstner

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Lee, C.R., Peddicord, R.K. (1988). Decision-Making Framework for Management of Dredged Material Disposal. In: Salomons, W., Förstner, U. (eds) Environmental Management of Solid Waste. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61362-3_16

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