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Environmental effects of dredging: Wetland animal bioassays/biomonitoring. Technical note

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:111794
This note follows Technical Note EEDP-O3-1 and adds support to the concept of using wetland animals as Indicators of bioavailable contaminants in dredged material used to create intertidal wetlands. The text of this tech note was taken from a paper by Kay, Marquenie, and Simmers (1986). Animal bioassay test procedures are being evaluated (field tested) and verified under the Interagency Field Verification of Testing and Predictive Methodologies for Dredged Material Disposal Alternatives in the Field Verification Program (FVP). Bioassays have been shown to be a relatively simple tool for ecological evaluation and environmental assessment of potential contaminant movement within permanent or temporary wetlands, and with field verification, it will be a useful biomonitoring tool as well.
Research Organization:
Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS (United States). Environmental Lab.
OSTI ID:
111794
Report Number(s):
AD-A--292621/0/XAB; EEDP--03-2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English