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Nuclear Waste Site at the IWS

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Container Density

Photos: The Massachusetts Bay Industrial Waste Site: A Preliminary Survey of Hazardous Waste Containers and an Assessment of Seafood Safety. NOAA 1996.

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Potential Boston Harbor Deep Draft Project

Approximately 10 million cubic yards of improvement material

Potential for Use

• Large volume of material

• Close to IWS

Concerns for Use

• Highly consolidated Boston Blue Clay

• Capping cannot interfere with dredging and disposal operations

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Conceptual Model

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Capping Approach

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Capping Demonstration Project

Objectives

• Assess the ability to precisely direct material placement at the IWS from a production–level dredging project

• Assess the impact of the disposal process on ambient seafloor sediments

• Assess any differences in impact disturbance between disposals placed on ambient seafloor and those placed on a berm of disposal material.

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Sequential Disposal and Monitoring

Monitoring Operations

• Bathymetry/Backscatter/Side‐Scan Sonar

• Sub‐bottom Profiling

• Sediment‐Profile & Plan‐View Imaging

• Sediment Coring

Disposal Operations

• Directed placement of split‐hull scows

• Individual placements and sequential, overlapping placements

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Placement

• Single placement impacts were measureable on the seafloor

• Impact points were very close to target coordinates (often within the length of the scow)

• Targeted placement did not affect disposal operations

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Crater Characteristics

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Disposal Profiles

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Conclusions

• Individual placement events were highly discernible on the seafloor—based on their location it was concluded that it was possible to accurately direct placement of material at this site.

• Horizontal spread from individual placement events were focused within 650 ft (200 m) of the impact center.  Vertical displacement of the ambient seafloor ranged from 1.5 to 5 feet (0.5 to 1.5 m).

• The buildup of a berm of “flank” material over the ambient seafloor with limited impact can be observed after multiple, overlapping placement events.

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Next Steps

• Develop a model of impact potential from Boston Blue Clay disposal at the IWS

• Use the model and empirical data to develop minimum thickness dimensions for the berm area to successfully mitigate impact forces from disposal

• Turn those dimensions into a useable capping plan for potential full‐scale implementation using Boston Harbor Deep Draft Project material

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