ASTM STP 1442 Contaminated Sediments: Characterization, Evaluation, Mitigation/Restoration, and Management Strategy Performance
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The Second International Symposium on Contaminated Sediments was held in Quebec City from May 26 to 28, 2003. This STP records the recent advances in understanding contaminated sediments presented at that symposium.
The symposium covered the areas of sediment characterization, contaminant evaluation, mitigation/ restoration methods, and management strategy performance from the geological, geotechnical, biological, and geophysical perspectives. Keynote papers, selected for this volume, reflect recent work carried out on large coastal investigations (e.g., in the Los Angeles area), and on natural and artificial capping of contaminated sediments. Other papers in this volume have been assembled into three groups:
- sediment characterization
- mitigation and restoration methods
- monitoring and performance
- Each of these sections begins with the corresponding keynote paper.
Mitigation and restoration methods discussed in papers in this publication are diversified and touch on many different environments from river sediments and harbor lagoons to land reclamation. Techniques ranging from the use of geotextiles and geocomposites to selective sequential extraction methods are covered. The monitoring and performance aspects of contaminated sediments are largely supported by extensive site investigations, like the Southern California project, but also by the development of modeling tools.
A few papers included in this volume summarize a five-year research effort aimed at evaluating the performance of a catastrophic capping layer resulting from the major 1996 Saguenay flood disaster that proved to be very beneficial to the Saguenay Fjord environment and ecosystem by covering most of the ancient contaminated sediments.
Specific topics covered by this publication include:
- characterization of contaminated sediments
- in situ flume measurements
- reclamation
- sand capping
- geotextile tube use
- weathering behavior of contaminated industrial sediments
- rehabilitation of brine-saturated sediments
- selective sequential extraction
- electro-osmosis
- contaminant transport modeling
- deep-freeze sampling
- lead release from buried cables
- retention of heavy metals
- eutrophic sediments
- statistical tools
- heavy metals in mining areas
- catastrophic flood sediment layer
The content of this publication is useful for students, instructors, and technical professionals working in civil engineering, hydro-geological engineering, water quality management, and environmental reclamation.