Publisher's Synopsis
Dredging '02 includes papers that were presented at the Third Specialty Conference on Dredging and Dredged Material Disposal, held in Orlando, Florida, May 5-8, 2002. These technical papers share new ideas and real-world experiences in dredging and the dredged material process. The papers emphasize the economic impacts of dredging and offer economic viewpoints on the increasing costs of dredged material disposal; the necessity for deepening projects to maintain port viability; and the benefit and cost considerations of dredging as a large-scale environmental remediation tool. Specific Topics include: Congressional Legislation and Regulatory Programs; Impacts and Costs of Dredging Policies and Regulations; Innovative Management and Techniques; Environmental Dredging Project Plans; DMMP (Dredged Material Management Plan) & Pilot Studies; Modeling & Simulation of Dredging Operations; Specialty Dredging Equipment; Trends in Dredging Equipment and Instrumentation; Prediction of Dredging Equipment Behavior; Alternative Dredging Methods; Sediment Characterization; Monitoring for Dredging Projects; Treatment of Contaminated Sediments; Contaminated Material in Europe; DMS (Diagnostic Modeling System); Material Disposal Testing; Confined Aquatic Disposal; and CDF (Confined Disposal Facilities). It also includes topics such as: Water Quality Impacts; Geotechnical Aspects; Beneficial Uses of Dredged Material; Impacts from Dispersion of Disposed Material; Effectiveness of Dredging as a Remediation Tool; Dredging and Capping Remediation Sites - Economic Aspects; Dredging for Navigation; Dredged Material Disposal; Dredging as a Tool for Port Expansion; and Case Studies for Special Dredging Projects.
