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• EPA General Reports
• EPA Guidance

• Allocation
• Brownfields
• Decision Analysis
• Dredging
• Brownfields
• Modeling
• NRD Claims
• Remedial Options
• Risk
• Sediment Dating
• Sediment Stability
• Sediment Toxicity
• Sediment Transport
• Specific Sites

• Additional Resources

2008 Sediment Workshop Presentations

• Allocation in a Sediment Case (PPC, M. Low)
• Beneficial Reuse of Dredged Material (CVX, J. Hall)
• Common Sediment Challenges (CH2MHILL, G. Hicks)
• Contaminated Sediment SCMs & Remediation (Anchor Envi, D. Keith)
• Emerging Trends in Sediment Cases (Anchor, C. Patmont)
• Evaluating Source Allocation (QEA, J. Quandrini)
• Strategies for Sediment Sites (Beveridge & Diamond, S. Jawetz)

EPA General Reports

• Using Fish Tissue Data to Monitor Remedy Effectiveness (US EPA 2008)
• ECO Update/Ground Water Forum Issue Paper - Evaluating Ground-Water/Surface-Water Transition Zones in Ecological Risk Assessments (US EPA, 2008)
• U.S. EPA, Contaminated Sediment Report to Congress, 2004
• U.S. EPA, Final Report - Superfund Subcommittee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology ("NACEPT"), 2004
• U.S. EPA, Contaminated Sediment Management Strategy, 1998

EPA Guidance

• EPA Can Better Implement Its Strategy for Managing Contaminated Sediments (2006)
• EPA Contaminated Sediment Remediation Guidance for Hazardous Waste Sites (2005)
• Summary and Analysis of U.S. EPA's Sediment Remediation Guidance (2005)
• Remediation Guidance Document

Allocation

• Allocation in the Sediment Case (Matthew A Low, Project Performance Corp, 2008)

Brownfields

• Prospective Environmental Restoration/Restoration Up Front: A Concept for an Incentive-Based Program to Increase Restoration Planning and Implementation in the US (Windward, 2008)
• Brownfields Federal Programs Guide, U.S. EPA, 2005
• U.S. EPA, Contaminated Sediment Report to Congress, 2004
• EPA Brownfields liability guidance web page
• EPA web page on “All Appropriate Inquiries” rule

Decision Analysis

• Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: The Effective Use of Mathematical Models as Decision Tools (QEA, 2007)
• Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A Comprehensive Decision Approach for Management of Contaminated Sites (2006)
• Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A Framework for Managing Contaminated Sites (2004)

Dredging

• Sediment Dredging At Superfund Megasites (2007) - National Academic Press
• Designing a Dredge Plan to Accomodate Anticipated Residuals (Anchor Environmental, 2007)
• Case Studies of Environmental Dreging Residuals and Management Implications (Anchor Environmental, 2003)
• Literature Review of Effects of Resuspended Sediments Due to Dredging Operations (Anchor Environmental, 2003)
• U.S. EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Evaluation of Dredged Material Proposed for Discharge in Waters of the U.S. (Inland Testing Manual), 1998
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers literature database on Environmental Effects & Dredging and Disposal (“E2-D2”)
• Beneficial Reuse of Dredged Material - The Regulatory Approach (CH2MHILL)
• Productive Reuse of Dredge Material - Capping a Mercury Contaminated Sediment Site (Anchor Environmental)

Brownfields

• Prospective Environmental Restoration/Restoration Up Front: A Concept for an Incentive-Based Program to Increase Restoration Planning and Implementation in the US (Windward, 2008)
• Brownfields Federal Programs Guide, U.S. EPA, 2005
• U.S. EPA, Contaminated Sediment Report to Congress, 2004
• EPA Brownfields liability guidance web page
• EPA web page on “All Appropriate Inquiries” rule

Modeling

• A Model of PCB Fate in the Upper Hudson River (Connolly, QEA, 2000)
• Modeling Natural Remediation: Contaminant Fate and Transport (QEA, 2000)
• Modeling Sediment Transport Dynamics in Thompson Island Pool, Upper Hudson River (QEA, 2000)
• Modeling the Environmental Fate and Transport of Metals (QEA, 1997)

NRD Claims

• Natural Resource Damage Claims at Sediment Sites (Windward, 2006)

Remedial Options

• Spacial and Temporal Evolution of Biogeochemical Processes Following In Situ Capping of Contaminated Sediments (Geosyntec, 2008)
• Natural Attenuation Processes during In Situ Capping (Geosyntec, 2007)
• Key Technical Element for Conducting Remedial Investigations at Superfund Sediment Sites (Winward, 2006)
• Palermo et al., Guidance for In-Situ Subaqueous Capping of Contaminated Sediments, U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office, 1998
• EPA, National Remedy Review Board web site
• Approaches Used for Remedy Selection at Contaminated Sites (ENVIRON)
• Remediation of DDT - Contaminated Sediment Using a Scour-Resistant Sediment Cap (CH2MHILL)

Risk

• Evaluating Post-Remedy and Remedy-Implementation Risks at a PCB-Contaminated Site: Practical Experiences (ENVIRON, 2008)
• Measurement of Totally Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Concentrations in Sediments and Toxic Units Used for Estimating Risk to Benthic Invertebrates at Manufactured Gas Plant Sites (ENSR, 2006)
• Importance of Implementation and Residual Risk at a PCB-Contaminated Site: Practical Experiences (ENVIRON, 2005)
• EPA, A Guidance Manual to Support the Assessment of Contaminated Sediments in Freshwater Ecosystems, 2002
• EPA, “Principles for Managing Contaminated Sediment Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites,” OSWER Directive 9285.6-08, 2002
• EPA, Methods for Measuring the Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Sediment-Associated Contaminants with Freshwater Invertebrates – Second Edition, 2000
• EPA, Superfund Risk Assessment website
• EPA, “National Sediment Bioaccumulation Conference Proceedings,”
• NOAA, Sediment Quality Guidelines website
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers database on links between sediment concentrations and biological effects

Sediment Dating

• Sediment Stability Assessment to Evaluate Natural Recovery as a Viable Remedy for Contaminated Sediments (2004)
• Evaulating Sediment Stability at sites with Historic Contamination (QEA, 2002)

Sediment Stability

• Sediment Stability Assessment to Evaluate Natural Recovery as a Viable Remedy for Contaminated Sediments (2004)
• Evaulating Sediment Stability at sites with Historic Contamination (QEA, 2002)

Sediment Toxicity

• Report: Management of Mercury Pollution in Sediments (2006)
• Evaluation of Potential Toxicity and Bioavailability of Chromium in Sediments Associated with Chromite Ore Processing Residue (Integral, 2006)
• Prediction of Sediment Toxicity using Consensus-based Freshwater Sediment Quality Guidelines, USGS (2000)
• Methods for Measuring the Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Sediment-associated Contaminants with Freshwater Invertebrates, EPA (2000)
• Predicting Bioavailability of Sediment Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Hyalella asteca using Equilibrium Partitioning, Supercricial Fluid Extraction, and Pore Water Concentrations (Steven B. Hawthorne, ENSR)

Sediment Transport

• Technical Report: User's Guide of Assessing Sediment Transport at Navy Facilities (A.C. Blake, D.B. Chadwick, 2007)

Specific Sites

• The Hudson River Estuary
• GE Hudson River Dredging Project website
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Fox River website

• EPA Housatonic River website
• EPA Kalamazoo River website
• EPA Region 10 clean-up sites website (includes Commencement Bay – Nearshore Tideflats, Portland Harbor, and Upper Columbia River)
• EPA Calcasieu Estuary website
• EPA Ashtabula River (Great Lakes Legacy Act) website

Additional Resources

• Sidley & Austin 2007 Comprehensive Sediment Reference List
• EPA Superfund Sediment Resource Center
• EPA, Contaminated Sediments Technical Advisory Group ("CSTAG")
• Sediment Management Work Group
• SedWeb