Chapter 4
Solutions to Sedimentation Problems
Publication: Navigation Channel Sedimentation Solutions
Abstract
Solutions to sedimentation problems may take many forms, ranging from nonstructural to structural to dredging. Keeping sediment in place is a basic step in preventing excess deposition and turbidity. The Coastal Zone Management Reauthorization Act of 1990 required states to develop plans for controlling nonpoint source pollution, including land erosion. Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi, Navigation Project provides an example of keeping sediment out. The project includes two sediment traps, one on the east side of the Pascagoula Channel that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to Horn Island Pass and another trap on the east side of the channel through Horn Island Pass to the Gulf of Mexico. Keeping sediment navigable sounds like an oxymoron; however, Passive Nautical Depth is practiced worldwide in channels with fine-grained sediment through adoption of a nautical depth definition of the channel bottom based on a critical density of the sediment suspension.
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Published online: Nov 3, 2023
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- Business management
- Channels (waterway)
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Developing countries
- Environmental engineering
- Geology
- Geotechnical engineering
- Gulfs
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Islands
- Pollution
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- River engineering
- Sediment
- Soil pollution
- Suspended sediment
- Water and water resources
- Waterways
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