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New York Metropolitan Region—A Major Sediment Source
Author(s) -
Gross M. Grant
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr006i003p00927
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , sediment , oceanography , debris , sediment core , sound (geography) , hydrology (agriculture) , population , geography , environmental science , geology , archaeology , physical geography , geomorphology , demography , geotechnical engineering , sociology
Approximately 9.6 million tons per year of waste solids, including dredged sediment and construction debris from the New York metropolitan region, was dumped in New York Bight and in western Long Island Sound between 1964 and 1968. This was apparently the largest sediment source discharging directly into the North Atlantic Ocean (excluding the Gulf of Mexico) from the North American continent. Considering the core metropolitan region (population about 9 million) as the dominant source, the average annual discharge was about 1 ton per person (equivalent to about 6 pounds per person per day)