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| Title | Quality Assurance Project Plan: Feasibility of using Sediment Profile Imaging Technology to Evaluate Sediment Quality and Impacts to Benthic Communities found at two Contaminated Sediment Cleanup Sites in the Puget Sound. | |
| Month-Year Published | December 2006 | |
| Online Availability |
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| Short Description |
This Quality Assurance Project Plan was written by Germano and Associates for the Washington State Department of Ecology. (Also see abstract below) | |
| Publication Number | 06-03-119 | |
| Author(s) | Germano & Associates | |
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| Number of pages | 41 pp. | |
| Keywords | benthic, cleanup, contaminated, contaminated sediment, flow, goals, Puget Sound, quality assurance, quality assurance project plan, sediment, technology, water, waterway, wood | |
| Related Publications | Title | Relationship |
| Quality Assurance Project Plan: Using Sediment Profile Imaging (SPI) to Evaluate Sediment Quality at Two Puget Sound Cleanup Sites: Part I - Lower Duwamish Waterway | similar topic | |
| Quality Assurance Project Plan: Using Sediment Profile Imaging (SPI) to Evaluate Sediment Quality at Two Puget Sound Cleanup Sites: Part II: Port Gamble Bay | similar topic | |
| Abstract | Long Description |
The Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) is an estuarine waterway subject to freshwater flow and tidal exchange. This waterway is channelized and highly industrialized with anthropogenic disturbances such as contamination, vessel traffic, and construction activities superimposed on natural, estuarine-fluvial disturbance patterns. Goals of the LDW survey include: Characterize the spatial distribution of sediment types, benthic habitats, benthic communities, and characterize baseline conditions against which future monitoring studies can be compared. The Port Gamble site is a former timber mill and log storage facility. Although the Port Gamble site is subject to high tidal exchange, there is no fluvial input to the system and anthropogenic disturbances are mostly limited to historical deposition of wood and bark debris generated during the storage, handling and transfer of logs from the marine environment to the mill facility. Goals of the Port Gamble survey include: Characterize the spatial distribution of sediment types, benthic habitats, benthic communities, and augment existing data on the distribution of wood residues. |
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