EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response has issued the final Contaminated Sediment Remediation Guidance for Hazardous Waste Sites. The guidance is designed to assist EPA staff managing sediment sites by providing a thorough overview of methods that can be used to reduce risk caused by contaminated sediment.
See also: www.epa.gov/superfund/health/conmedia/sediment/guidance.htm

An editorial on "Managing European Sediments: Can We Expand Our Ecological Risk Assessment Paradigms?" by Dr. Sabine Apitz, president of SEA Environmental Decisions, appeared in the most recent issue of the Journal of Soils and Sediments (6-1: 2006). Download the editorial at www.scientificjournals.com/sj/jss.

Another periodical focusing on Euorpean sediments issues is The Sediment Corner, which appears in SETAC Globe. The January issue is on "Sediments and the European Marine Strategy." For more information on how to obtain it, go to: www.setac.org/htdocs/what_pubnews_globe.html .

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