Research and Background Papers on Dredging and Sediment Quality
Project | Relevance | Further Information |
Water Injection Dredging in Hamburg | Evaluation of Water Injection Dredging | |
Water Injection Dredging in Norfolk Broads | Evaluation of Water Injection Dredging | |
Water Injection Dredging | Background to method. | http://www.leovanrijn-sediment.com/papers/Waterinjectiondredging.pdf |
Impacts of Water Injection Dredging on Water Quality and Exotoxicity in Limehouse Basin, Thames Estuary. | Local case study | Spencer, KL, Dewhurst, RE, Penna, P. 2006. Potential impacts of water injection dredging on water quality and ecotoxicity in Limehouse Basin, River Thames, SE England, UK. Chemosphere, 63, 509-521. |
Historical contaminants | Background | Spencer, KL, MacLeod, CL. 2002. Distribution and partitioning of heavy metals in estuarine sediment cores and implications for the use of sediment quality standards. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 6(6), 989-998. |
Historical contaminants | UK case studies | Ridgway, J, Shimmield, G. 2002. Estuaries as repositories of historical contamination and their impact on shelf seas. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 55, 903-928. |
Historical contaminants | UK case studies | Waite, ME, Waldock, MJ, Thain, JE, Smith, DJ, Milton, SM. 1991. Reductions in TBT concentrations in UK estuaries following legislation in 1986 and 1987. Marine Environmental Research, 32, 89-111. |
Historical contaminants | UK case study | Vane, CH, Jones, DG, Lister, TR. Mercury contamination in surface sediment and sediment cores of the Mersey Estuary UK. |
Historical contaminants | Background | Vane, CH, Harrison, I, Kim, AW. Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in surface sediments from the Inner Clyde Estuary, UK. |
PIANC Report No 100. | Dredging Methods and Mitigation | PIANC, 2008, Dredging Management Practises for the Environment, a structures selection approach. |
PIANC Report No 136. | Specific to water injection dredging. | Output from committee 120 on water injection dredging. |
QMUL MSc Project | Overview of sediment quality in Thames Estuary. | A Preliminary Assessment of Sediment Quality in the Tidal Thames. |
EMPHASYS | Estuary Morpohology and techniques | http://eprints.hrwallingford.co.uk/283/ |