Significant Natural Processes Influencing Contaminant Fate

• Sediment resuspension and erosion

• Sediment deposition

• Sediment suspended load transport

• Sediment bed load transport

• Analogous to resuspension and sediment transport during dredging operations

• Exposure defined by equilibrium with resuspended sediment

Dynamic Sediment Environment

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