Dredge Turbidity Monitoring
Overview Dredging is an excavation activity carried out in shallow seas and freshwater areas (lakes and rivers) to gather up bottom sediment and dispose of it at a remote location.[…]
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EPA releases National Lakes Assessment draft
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft of the National Lake Assessment, which is open for review and comment until Jan. 22. The assessment is a survey of the[…]
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Wetland Restoration — Silver Lake
Project Overview The Silver Lake Wetlands are unique and complex. An ancient glacial kettle lake surrounded by hills of gravel soil deposits has existed since shortly after the Wisconsinan Glacier[…]
Alaska North Slope Water Quality Monitoring
The University of Michigan’s Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratories, in partnership with Michigan Technological University, have designed and fabricated two prototype ALWAS (Automated Lagrangian Water Quality Assessment System) buoys. The buoys have[…]
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