Information summary, Area of Concern: Grand Calumet River, Indiana. Final report
A 5-year study and demonstration project, Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediment (ARCS), emphasizes the removal of toxic pollutants from bottom sediments. Information from the ARCS program is to be used to guide the development of Remedial Action Plans (RAPs) for 42 identified Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) as well as resource management plans. The AOCs are areas where serious impairment of beneficial uses of water or biota (drinking, swimming, fishing, navigation, etc) is known to exist, or where environmental quality criteria are exceeded to the point that such impairment is likely. Among the hazardous materials detected from sampling of sediments are heavy metals, pesticides, various chemicals and industrial wastes. Industrial land use, runoff from watersheds, landfills, waste disposal practices and ground water flow contributed to pollutants found in bottom sediments of rivers and waterways channels.
- Research Organization:
- Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS (United States). Environmental Lab.
- OSTI ID:
- 5268048
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-236435/4/XAB; WES/MP/EL--91-10
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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540320* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
BIOASSAY
CLEANING
DECONTAMINATION
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
FEDERAL REGION V
GREAT LAKES
GROUND WATER
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDIANA
LAKES
LAND USE
MANAGEMENT
MASS TRANSFER
MATERIALS
MATERIALS RECOVERY
METALS
NORTH AMERICA
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PESTICIDES
PLANNING
POLLUTION
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
REMEDIAL ACTION
REMOVAL
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
RIVERS
RUNOFF
SAMPLING
SEDIMENTS
STANDARDS
STREAMS
SURFACE WATERS
TOXICITY
USA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT
WATERSHEDS