Browsing School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences by Subject "Dredging spoil -- Environmental aspects -- Lower Bay (N.Y. and N.J.)"

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    • Containment islands in New York Harbor 

      Marine Sciences Research Center; Bokuniewicz, Henry J. (Henry Joseph); Cerrato, Robert Michael (Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY, 1985-12)
      from the abstract, "In this report we will present information which indicates that the construction of large or medium-sized containment islands in New York Harbor is within the present technical ability, that containment ...

    • Containment Islands in New York Harbor 

      Marine Sciences Research Center; Bokuniewicz, Henry J. (Henry Joseph); Cerrato, Robert Michael; Ellsworth, J. (Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY, 1989)
      From abstract: "The construction and use of containment islands is a technically feasible option for the disposal of dredged sediment. The ecological impacts due to the loss of sea floor under he island might be minimized ...

    • Effect of borrow pits on the abundance and distribution of fishes in the Lower Bay of New York Harbor 

      Marine Sciences Research Center; Conover, David O.; Cerrato, Robert Michael; Bokuniewicz, Henry J. (Henry Joseph) (Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY, 1985-12)
      from the abstract, "A finfish survey was done on a monthly basis by trawling at three sites in the Lower Bay of New York Harbor. Two of these sites were within borrow pits that had been excavated in the bay floor by ...

    • Predicted changes in tidal circulation due to construction of containment islands in the Lower Bay of New York Harbor 

      Marine Sciences Research Center; Vieira, Mário E. C. (Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY, 1986)
      from the abstract, "The effects of constructing 500 acre islands at three predetermined sites within the Lower Bay of New York Harbor were evaluated with a vertically integrated, non-linear, finite difference numerical ...