Dredging Operations Technical Support Program. Guidelines for Physical and Biological Monitoring of Aquatic Dredged Material Disposal Sites

Abstract : This report is a preliminary set of guidelines for physical and biological monitoring of aquatic uncontaminated dredged material disposal sites. The need for guidelines on this subject was one of the items indentified at the August 1985 Long-Term Management Strategy Workshop sponsored by the Water Resources Support Center. The resulting guidelines are intended to serve as a working document that can be periodically improved as experience dictates. Emphasis is placed on the establishment of concise objectives and hypotheses, the use of multidisciplinary approaches to developing monitoring programs, and the provision of results that are relevant and useful to site managers. A tiered step-wise procedure to develop a monitoring program is presented, along with a summary of the basic tools and techniques for biological and physical analyses. More detailed information is available in Selected Tools and Techniques for Physical and Biological Monitoring of Aquatic Dredged Material Disposal Sites.