Semiannual Interagency Briefing (5th), August 1975, Washington, D. C.

Abstract

This paper presents the edited text and prints of slides of a briefing on the status of the Dredged Material Research Program (DMRP). While significant progress is being made in all DMRP project areas, the briefing emphasizes the problem of transferring this information. Another problem concerns public credibility and acceptance. To confront this, the DMRP is concentrating on field studies that demonstrate the productive uses of dredged material and the feasibility of dredged material becoming a natural resource. Laboratory and field research problems, accomplishments, and objectives are discussed in relation to work units within the four projects that structure the DMRP: the Environmental Impacts and Criteria Development Project, Project, the Habitat Development Project, the Disposal Opeations Project, and the Productive uses Project. The work unit studies, which cover a diversity of problems on the disposal, effects of disposal, and possible uses of dredged material, are conducted under contract with universities, corporations, and Government agencies throughout the United States.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA022377

Entities

People

  • Charles C. Calhoun Jr.
  • Hanley K. Smith
  • Robert M. Engler
  • Robert M. Meccia
  • Roger T. Saucier

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  • Biological Sciences
  • Biology
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  • Ecology
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  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Materials
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  • United States

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  • Environmental science

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  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
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  • Technical Research and Report Writing.