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| Title: | Residuals Management: Disposal of Sewage Sludge in the New York Bight |
| Authors: | Conrad, Jon M. |
| Issue Date: | 1985 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marine Resource Economics
Vol. 1 No. 4 |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses a problem facing New
York and several other coastal cities: how and where they should dispose of the sludge produced in the treatment of municipal
and industrial wastewater. A dynamic model of sludge accumulation is constructed that identifies conditions under which it is optimal to "cease and switch" or dispose simultaneously at both nearshore and offshore sites. Environmental conditions in the New York Bight are discussed along with
incidents occurring during the summer of 1976 that galvanized public concern over the amount and types of contaminants entering the bight. While sludge accumulations were not a major factor in either incident, the cost of sludge-related degradation,
particularly if inner bight fisheries were well managed, is probably sufficient to warrant disposing of sludge at the more distant 106-mile site. It is important to institute ecological and economic monitoring of both the offshore and nearshore sites if the role of ocean disposal in residuals management is to be better defined. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/47538 |
| Identifiers: | 0738-1360 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 01, Number 4, 1985 |
| Total Pages: | 25 |
| From Page: | 321 |
| To Page: | 345 |
| Collections: | Volume 01, Number 4, 1985
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