Sediment open water disposal in the aspect of environmental hazard. General trends. Current scientific literature review.
Journal: CeON Repository (Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science)
Year: 2015

Disposal into the open water body is the most common practice with dredged sediments from water objects. These actions may disrupt the balance inside and around dumping area. Accumulated in sediments anthropogenic pollution such as heavy metals and persistent organic compounds impact on the environment over a longer period of time. Dumping into aquatic ecosystems million tons of spoils from dredging causes a number of concerns in the international arena. A large number of&#13;\nglobal treaties a