Problems and Opportunities in the Design of Entrances to Ports and Harbors Proceedings of a Symposium (1981) / Chapter Skim
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Maintenance Dredging
Maintenance Dredging
Pages 39-42
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The nation faces serious imbalances in the energy resources it imports, such as foreign oil, and its abundant energy resources for which there in growing foreign (and little domestic) demand, namely coal.
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The disposal of dredged materials with care and judgment can be beneficial or innocuous to the environment -- restoring eroded beaches and creating new habitats, or harmlessly entering the deep ocean. Contaminated materials need special care, and the disposal of these is addressed in detail in the reports of the Dredged Materials Research Program reports (sometimes called the "WES reports because they were supervised by the Waterways Experiment Station of the U.S.
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Would the private sector have sufficient capacity to handle dredging or deepening of these three harbors? DOWNS: When the contract comes out, the port authorities may want it done in 18 months, 20 months.
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