PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH DREDGING SEMINAR

Discussed in the 263-page proceedings are: Stabilization of coastal subaerial dredged materials; development of biological habitats; reduction of turbidity; research to dewater dredged material; and primary consolidation and compressibility of dredgings. Also, environmental aspects of dredging; mining phosphates by dredge; availability of sediment-adsorbed heavy metals to benthic deposit-feeding organisms; future of the dredging market; cost-effectiveness analysis of solids-liquid separation alternatives in disposal operations; stabilization of polluted dredgings by electro-osmosis; and Corbicula manilensis Phillipi in the Arkansas River. Participants are listed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Co-sponsored by the Center for Dredging Studies and the Sea Grant College Program at Texas A&M University, the Ninth Dredging Seminar was held November 5, 1976, at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas A&M University, College Station

  Sea Grant Program, Center for Marine Resources
  College Station, TX  United States  77843
• Publication Date: 1977-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 263 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Dewatering; Dredged materials; Dredging; Economic analysis; Waste disposal
• Subject Areas: Economics; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00168352
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Texas A&M University, College Station
• Report/Paper Numbers: TAMU-SG-77-115 Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM