Contamination dispersion in estuaries New York Harbor. Hydraulic model investigation. Report 3. Miscellaneous paper

Technical Report · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1960

OSTI ID:6774305

This report describes and gives the results of a series of nine tests conducted on the New York Harbor model. These tests involved assumed, simulated accidents of nuclear-powered vessels at the six locations indicated as release points on the location map. Accidents were simulated in the Hudson and East Rivers (release points 1 and 2), in the Upper and Lower New York Bays (release points 3 and 6), and in the Kills (release points 4 and 5). The data obtained in the tests are presented in forms suitable for analysis, but no analysis is made. The New York Harbor model is of the fixed-bed type and is constructed to linear scale ratios, model to prototype, of 1:1000 horizontally and 1:100 vertically. Tides and tidal currents are generated in the reproduced portions of the Raritan, Hudson, and East Rivers by separate but synchronized, secondary, two-way flow-control devices located at the model limit of each stream. Thus, with the primary ocean tide generator, four synchronized tide generators are used to reproduce the flooding and ebbing of tides on the model. The salinity of the model ocean is maintained at the same salinity as the prototype (the salinity scale being 1:1); and the scaled upland discharge of the Hudson River is introduced at Hyde Park, New York.

• Research Organization: Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6774305
• Report Number(s): AD-A-081412
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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