*Work supported in part by the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 and by Interagency Agreements, funded through the Water Resources Developments Acts of 1992 and 1996, between the US Environmental Protection Agency (No. DW89941761-01-0), the US Army Corps of Engineers (No. NYD-94-39(C), and the US Department of Energy.
 

A demonstration project for decontamination of dredged material from NY/NJ Harbor is now in progress. The goal of the demonstration is to create one or more facilities capable of treating 500,000 cubic yards of material per year. The funding for the demonstration was provided through the Water Resources Development Act of 1996.

A brief description of the status of the demonstration is given in the following report that was presented at The 5^th International Petroleum Environmental Conference held at Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 20-23, 1998. This paper is appended.

Other relevant publications are as follows:

     Stern, E. A., Donato, K. R., Jones, K. W., and Clesceri, N. L. 1998. Sediment Decontamination Treatment Train: Commercial-Scale Demonstration for the Port of New York/New Jersey. To be presented at the Nineteenth Western Dredging Association (WEDA XIX) Annual Meeting and Conference and Thirty-first Texas A&M University Dredging Seminar (TAMU 31). Louisville, Kentucky, May 15-20, 1999.

     Stern, E. A., Donato, K., Jones, K. W., and Clesceri, N. L. 1998. Processing Contaminated Dredged Material from the Port of New York/New Jersey. Estuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4A, in press.

     Stern, E. A., Donato, K. R., Clesceri, N. L., and Jones, K. W. 1998. Integrated Sediment Decontamination for the New York/New Jersey Harbor, pp. 71-81. In Proceedings of the US EPA National Conference on Management and Treatment of Contaminated Sediments, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 13-14, 1997. EPA/625/R-98/001, August 1998.

     Stern, E. A., Jones, K., Donato, K., Pauling, J. D., Sontag, J. G., Clesceri, N. L., Mensinger, M. C., and Wilde, C. L. 1998. Maintaining Access to America's Intermodal Ports/Technologies for Decontamination of Dredged Sediment: New York/New Jersey Harbor. In Proceedings of The Society of American Military Engineers 1998 National Conference - "Renewing America Through Engineering." New York, May 19-23, 1998, Technical Paper #8007. In press.

     Stern, E. A. 1998. Sediment Decontamination Program for the Port of New York and New Jersey, pp. 1-2. 1998. EPA Tech Trends Issue No. 30, August 1998.

     Program evaluates technologies to treat contaminated sediments from New York/New Jersey Harbor, pp. 5-7. EPA Contaminated Sediments News Number 22, Summer 1998.

     Ma, Hong, and Jones, Keith W. 1998. Scientific Visualization and Data Modeling of Scattered Sediment Contaminant Data in New York/New Jersey Estuaries, pp. 467-470. In D. Ebert, H. Hagen, and H. Rushmeier (eds.). Proceedings of Vis98 (IEEE Visualization 1998), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October 18-23, 1998, IEEE Computer Society, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., ACM Press, New York, New York, 1998.

     Ma, Hong, Jones, K. W., Stern, E. A., and Richman, L. R. 1998. Scientific Visualization and Scattered Data Modeling of Sediment Contaminant Concentration in the Lower Passaic River, Newark, New Jersey. Presented at 1998 Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Boston, Massachusetts, May 26-29, 1998.

     Jones, K. W., Guadagni, A. J., Stern, E. A., Donato, K. R., and Clesceri, N. L. 1998. Commercialization of Dredged-Material Decontamination Technologies. Remediation, Special Issue: Innovative Remediation Technology 8:43-54.

     Jones, K. W., Song, S.-R., Klein, R. C., and Shea-McCarthy, G. Elemental Analysis of Contaminated Sediments from Harbor of NY/NJ and Hamburg Using Synchrotron Radiation-Induced X-Ray Emission (SRIXE) (abstract). Presented at 1997 Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland, May 27-30, 1997, and 1997 Denver X-Ray Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, August 4-8, 1997.

     Jones, K. W., Stern, E. A., Donato, K., and Clesceri, N. L. 1997. Processing of NY/NJ Harbor Estuarine Dredged Material, p. 49-66. In J. N. Meegoda, T. H. Wakeman III, A. K. Arulmoli, and W. J. Librizzi (eds.), Proceedings of Session on Dredging and Management of Dredged Material, Geo-Logan '97, Logan, Utah, July 16-19, 1997, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 65, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, New York.

     Krishna, C. R., Klein, R. C., Jones, K. W., Clesceri, N. L., and Stern. E. 1995. Human Exposure to Toxic Materials. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 62:375-9.

     Goswami, A., Clesceri, N., Preiss, I., Stern, E., Jones, K., and Donato, K. Evaluation of Treatment, Disposal, and Managerial Options for Dredged Sediments from Newark Bay, Arthur Kill, and Newtown Creek of New York/New Jersey Harbor and Proposed Design. 1995. In Proceedings of the 50^th Annual Purdue University Industrial Waste Conference, Lafayette, Indiana, May 8-12, 1995, Lewis Publishers.

     McManus, M., Jones, K. W., Clesceri, N. L., and Preiss, I. L. 1995. Renewal of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal area. The Journal of Urban Technology 2:51-64.
 
 
 
 

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