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The objective of this study was to assess the effects of dredging on the structure and composition of diatom assemblages from a lowland stream and to investigate whether the response of diatom assemblages to the dredging is also influenced by different water quality. Three sampling sites were established in Rodríguez Stream (Argentina); physico-chemical variables and benthic diatom assemblages were sampled weekly in spring 2001. Species composition, cell density, diversity and evenness were estimated. Diatom tolerance to organic pollution and eutrophication were also analyzed. Differences in physico-chemical variables and changes in benthic diatom assemblages were compared between the pre- and post-dredging periods using a t-test. Data were analyzed using Principal Components Analysis (PCA), non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) ordination and cluster analysis. The effects of dredging in the stream involve two types of disturbances: (i) in the stream bed, by the removal and destabilization of the substrate and (ii) in the water column, by generating chemical changes and an alteration of the light environment of the stream. Suspended solids, soluble reactive phosphorus and dissolved inorganic nitrogen were significantly higher in post-dredging periods. Physical and chemical modifications in the habitat of benthic diatoms produced changes in the assemblage; diversity and species numbers showed an immediate increase after dredging, decreasing at the end of the study period. Changes in the tolerance of the diatom assemblage to organic pollution and eutrophication were also observed as a consequence of dredging; in the post-dredging period sensitive species were replaced by either tolerant or most tolerant species. These changes were particularly noticeable in site 1 (characterized by its lower amount of nutrients and organic matter previous to dredging), which showed an increase in the amount of nutrients and oxygen demand as a consequence of sediment removal. However, these changes were not so conspicuous in sites 2 and 3, which already presented a marked water quality deterioration before the execution of the dredging works. 相似文献
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Numerical site-specific chemical and biological criteria were established to assess the impact of a pilot dredging project
on water quality at the New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts, USA, Superfund site. Because most existing chemical concentrations
in the water column and indigenous biota exceeded federal and state water quality limits, the derivation of site-specific
criteria was required. Prior to any operational phases of the project (i.e., dike construction, dredging), criteria values
were developed from background concentrations of PCBs and metals in water and biota, as well as for the toxic effects of water
quality on the biota. During each operational phase of the project, water samples were collected, analyzed within 16 h, and
the data supplied to a management committee in order to assess the environmental impact of the previous days' operation. The
ambient unfiltered water concentration of PCBs and metals were the only chemical or biological criteria exceeded. Modification
of the next days' operations resulted in a return of these concentrations to background levels. The combined use of site-specific
criteria and a real-time decision making management process allowed for successful completion of this project with a minimal
effect on water quality. 相似文献
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Robert L. Wilbur 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》1974,10(2):372-383
ABSTRACT: Conversion of muck to sand bottom was tested to increase benthic production in two eutrophic Florida lakes, and preliminary results indicate that benthos will be increased in areas converted to sand. Muck removal with a specially designed dredge, or “Mudcat,” was tested in Trout Lake. The Mudcat removed 41,650 cu. yds. of muck and exposed 17 acres of sand bottom, but 10 of those acres developed thin layers of muck, which proved too soft to be picked up by the Mudcat. Consequently, only 7 acres were satisfactorily converted. Bottom redistribution with a suction-type dredge was tested in Lake Carlton, and 14 acres were converted from muck to sand. Sand covered with muck was pumped from midlake areas to more peripheral areas of the lake where water depths were 11 to 13 feet and muck layer about 1.5 feet deep. The bottom was built up to an elevation above the previous muck elevation. Several methods for depositing the sand were tested. Level areas of sand fill developed accumulations of muck from fallout following dredging activity. Piles or dunes provided the best cost-return ratio. The bottom in filled areas changed very little during a 1½ year period following filling. 相似文献
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The rationale and outline of an implementation plan for restoring coastal wetlands in Louisiana is presented. The rationale
for the plan is based on reversing the consequences of documented cause-and-effect relationships between wetland loss and
hydrologic change. The main feature is to modify the extensive interlocking network of dredged spoil deposits, or spoil banks,
by reestablishing a more natural water flow at moderate flow velocity (<5 cm/sec). Guidelines for site selection from thousands
of potential sites are proposed. Examples of suitable sites are given for intermediate marshes. These sites exhibit rapid
deterioration following partial or complete hydrologic impoundment, implying a strong hydrologic, rather than sedimentological,
cause of wetland deterioration.
We used an exploratory hydrologic model to guide determination of the amount of spoil bank to be removed. The results from
an economic model indicated a very effective cost-benefit ratio. Both models and practical experience with other types of
restoration plans, in Louisiana and elsewhere, exhibit an economy of scale, wherein larger projects are more cost effective
than smaller projects. However, in contrast to these other projects, spoil bank management may be 100 to 1000 times more cost
effective and useful in wetland tracts <1000 ha in size. Modest spoil bank management at numerous small wetland sites appears
to offer substantial positive attributes compared to alternative and more intensive management at a few larger wetland sites. 相似文献
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Returning canal spoil banks into canals, or backfilling, is used in Louisiana marshes to mitigate damage caused by dredging for oil and gas extraction. We evaluated 33 canals backfilled through July 1984 to assess the success of habitat restoration. We determined restoration success by examining canal depth, vegetation recolonization, and regraded spoil bank soils after backfilling. Restoration success depended on: marsh type, canal location, canal age, marsh soil characteristics, the presence or absence of a plug at the canal mouth, whether mitigation was on- or off-site, and dredge operator performance.Backfilling reduced median canal depth from 2.4 to 1.1 m, restored marsh vegetation on the backfilled spoil bank, but did not restore emergent marsh vegetation in the canal because of the lack of sufficient spoil material to fill the canal and time. Median percentage of cover of marsh vegetation on the canal spoil banks was 51.6%. Median percentage of cover in the canal was 0.7%. The organic matter and water content of spoil bank soils were restored to values intermediate between spoil bank levels and predredging marsh conditions.The average percentage of cover of marsh vegetation on backfilled spoil banks was highest in intermediate marshes (68.6%) and lowest in fresh (34.7%) and salt marshes (33.9%). Average canal depth was greatest in intermediate marshes (1.50 m) and least in fresh marshes (0.85 m). Canals backfilled in the Chenier Plain of western Louisiana were shallower (average depth = 0.61 m) than in the eastern Deltaic Plain (mean depth range = 1.08 to 1.30 m), probably because of differences in sediment type, lower subsidence rate, and lower tidal exchange in the Chenier Plain. Canals backfilled in marshes with more organic soils were deeper, probably as a result of greater loss of spoil volume caused by oxidation of soil organic matter. Canals ten or more years old at the time of backfilling had shallower depths after backfilling. Depths varied widely among canals backfilled within ten years of dredging. Canal size showed no relationship to canal depth or amount of vegetation reestablished. Plugged canals contained more marsh reestablished in the canal and much greater chance of colonization by submerged aquatic vegetation compared with unplugged canals. Dredge operator skill was important in leveling spoil banks to allow vegetation reestablishment. Wide variation in dredge performance led to differing success of vegetation restoration.Complete reestablishment of the vegetation was not a necessary condition for successful restoration. In addition to providing vegetation reestablishment, backfilling canals resulted in shallow water areas with higher habitat value for benthos, fish, and waterfowl than unfilled canals. Spoil bank removal also may help restore water flow patterns over the marsh surface. Increased backfilling for wetland mitigation and restoration is recommended. 相似文献
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Several submerged barges were recently removed from the Passaic River, New Jersey, USA, in two areas (areas 1 and 2) where
contaminated sediments are known to exist. During removal of the single barge in area 1, elevated turbidity levels and chemical
parameters were measured. Greater increases were measured in area 2, where several barges were removed. In both areas, water
column concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and several metals exceeded one or more water quality criteria; turbidity levels in area
2 also exceeded regulatory criteria. Potential chemical bioaccumulation from the water column into residential aquatic receptors
was estimated using standard models and assumptions. The modeled results predicted that steady-state tissue concentrations
of bioaccumulative chemicals would not occur as a result of the brief increase in water column concentrations that occurred
during barge removal but that metals and PCDD/Fs could bioaccumulate to levels that exceed regulatory ecological criteria
during long-term sediment disturbance activities. In addition, based on some simplistic assumptions regarding settling of
suspended sediments, we estimate that chemical bioaccumulation from surface sediments into the food web could result in substantial
increases in PCDD/F body burdens in the benthic forage fish, mummichog. Our findings are consistent with the limited number
of field studies that have measured increased body burdens of bioaccumulative chemicals following dredging. We suggest that,
prior to consideration of extensive dredging as a remedial alternative for any river system, the potential significant and
long-term impacts on the food web must be evaluated. 相似文献
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H. Glenn Earhart 《Environmental management》1984,8(1):81-86
Correlation curves were developed relating nephelometric turbidity units (NTU) with total suspended solids (TSS) for diked upland dredged material placement site effluents of three US Army Corps of Engineers (COE) maintenance dredging projects in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The procedure was developed in an effort to ensure compliance with Maryland's 400 milligrams per liter (mg/l) TSS standard for COE dredging projects. Samples of the sediments to be dredged were collected and analyzed, correlating turbidity readings with TSS determined by standard gravimetric techniques. The correlation curves were provided to the COE inspectors to measure the effluent with a turbidity meter and to extract a TSS concentration from the correlation curve. Samples collected and analyzed after initiation of the dredging indicated that the correlation curves were an overestimate of the actual TSS concentrations of the effluent discharges. The procedure, endorsed by the State of Maryland, provided immediate on-site TSS analysis eliminating the previously encountered delays in obtaining gravimetric analysis of effluent discharges and potential contract management problems. 相似文献