A comparative screening-level ecological and human health risk assessment for dredged material management alternatives in New York/New Jersey Harbor

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 603-626

  Kane Driscoll, Susan B ^a   Wickwire, W Theodore ^a   Cura, Jerome J ^a   Vorhees, Donna J ^a   Butler, Cheri L ^a   Moore, David W ^b   Bridges, Todd S ^b  

^a Menzie Cura and Associates   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative risk; Environmental assessment; Sediment contamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242666726     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20028091057105     Document Type: Article

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