Engineering Research and Development Center Range Finding Study

The Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC) has begun a ‘range-finding’ study to determine effects of sedimentation of clean sediment on winter flounder eggs and early life stages.  A major concern cited is the generation of suspended sediments near dredging operations to which a wide range of adverse effects,  including fish migration spawning, oyster and clam survival and reproduction and aquatic plant survival, have been attributed.

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