Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Civil Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Abstract not available. / Thesis (MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2007.

Thesis (Doctoral)--University de Nante, 1986. / Abstract also in English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189).

While release of contaminants during dredged material disposal operations has long been the subject of environmental concern, the potential release of pollutants during the dredging process has recently come under the scrunity of federal and state regulatory agencies. The mechanical action of a dredging operations causes resuspension of sediment particles and release of soluble contaminants to the water column. A predredging test is essential to estimate the amount of soluble release at or near the point of dredging to ascertain potential water quality impact. The Standard Elutriate Test has proven to be a good estimator of soluble contaminant release for dredged material disposal operations and researchers have recognized that the processes involved at the point of dredging are similar to those involved with the open-water disposal of dredged material. This research is an evaluation of the Standard Elutriate Test as an estimator of soluble contaminant release at the point of dredging. Data and field studies were conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station at five sites around the United States. A direct comparison was made between elutriate test data from predredging bottom sediment and water sample analysis taken at or near the point of dredging. The Standard Elutriate Test satisfactorily predicted the release of soluble contaminants at or near the point of dredging in four out of the five sites in this study. The fifth site had extenuating circumstances that may account for the failure at this site. In this investigation, the elutriate test appears to overestimate the release of organics, nutrients and some heavy metals (Hg, Mn, Fe, and Cr). Statistical analysis provided a predictive equation that can be used to estimate the upper-bound value a constituent concentration will approach based on elutiate test data and a specified confidence level. / M.S.

In 2016 the Panama Canal expansion is set to open, allowing a new class of ships to call on east coast ports. The dredging involved in deepening navigation channels to ensure safe passage of these vessels will place an increased amount of pressure on containment facilities up and down the coast. With limited disposal space, and increasing volumes, many ports have begun to rethink the treatment of this excess material. This thesis explores the prospect of dredge material being more than engineered fill. It suggests that dredge processing can become the basis for a new form of productive recreational landscape, one that can engage the public in a conversation of the spatial and material operations that sustain our lives. It works blur and dissolve the boundaries that have been erected between working landscapes and the public realm, and seeks to create a landscape that establishes a new sense of place prepared to mark the future of the new working urban waterfront; one where industrial operations generate new ecological substrates, and where productive frameworks become recreation networks. / Master of Landscape Architecture

Published as the author's thesis (doctor, Wageningen University, 2009). / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-138). Includes list of author's publications (p. 147-149).

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 45-48).

Published as the author's thesis (doctor, Wageningen University, 2009). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-138). Includes list of author's publications (p. 147-149).

Measuring the impact of physical disturbance on macrofaunal communities and sediment composition is important given the increased demand for the exploitation and disturbance of marine ecosystems. The aim of the present investigation was to provide a comprehensive study about the extent to which the disturbance (especially aggregate dredging) may affect benthic ecosystem function. The first part of the thesis concerns a field investigation of the impacts of dredging on the benthic community and related ecosystem function which was measured by different approaches including traditional methods based on benthic community structure and a more novel approach based on the functional traits of benthic organisms. The assessment was done by comparing dredged sites (Area 222, southeast England) with nearby undisturbed reference sites from the years 2001 to 2004 and in 2007. In general, low dredging intensity did not appear to impose great impacts on the benthic community and related ecosystem function compared to the higher intensity activity. Most of the analyses suggested that the community at the high dredging intensity site had yet to recover at the end of this study period. Among many factors related to the recovery of the benthic community was sediment composition where gravel deposits appeared to support a faster biological recovery. Meanwhile, the recovery of species with specific traits, such as tube-building and filter feeding also indicate a faster recovery for the whole community. The experimental work to determine different impacts of Hediste diversicolor on its surrounding depending on its relative size is discussed in Appendix 1.

As obras de Ampliação da Calha do Rio Tietê fazem parte de medidas estruturais que visaram ao aumento da capacidade de vazão para o controle das enchentes na RMSP. A regularidade da capacidade de vazão dependerá, dentre outras ações, de dragagens de manutenção e retirada do material dragado, cuja destinação é bastante problemática. O objetivo deste trabalho é a elaboração de um estudo sobre o processo de dragagem, transporte e disposição final de material de leito de rio por meio da apresentação do processo adotado no estudo de caso: Ampliação da Calha do Rio Tietê Fase II. Para esse fim, são abordados os principais aspectos técnicos, ambientais, sociais e econômicos relativos às obras do estudo de caso, dando ênfase à gestão do sedimento dragado, que busca estar em consonância com as normas e diretrizes legais vigentes. São finalmente enunciadas as principais recomendações e conclusões que devem ser aplicadas na gestão do sedimento dragado do Rio Tietê. / The works of Enlargement of Rio Tietê\'s Gutter (Waterway) are part of structural measures that objective increase the flow capacity for inundation control in RMSP (Metropolitan Region of São Paulo). The regularity of the flow capacity will depend, among other actions, of maintenance dredgings and retreating of dredged material, whose destination is plenty of problem. The aim of this work is the elaboration of a study about the dredging process, transport and final disposition of the river bed sediment through the presentation of the process adopted in the case study: Enlargement of Rio Tietê\'s Gutter Phase II. For that purpose, the main technical, environmental, social and economical aspects related to the works of the case study are discussed, giving emphasis in the administration of the dredged sediment, that seek fitting to the in course norms and legal guidelines. Finally, the main recommendations and conclusions that should be applied in the administration of Rio Tietê\'s dredged sediment are examined.