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Report of water masses receiving wastes from ocean dumping at the 106-mile dumpsite
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1992
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Description:The 106-Mile Dumpsite, a deep ocean site located 106 miles southeast of New York, receives sewage-treatment sludge from the municipallty of New York City. The site is occupied predominantly by slope water, however incursions of shelf water and warm-core rings occur periodically. Satellite infrared data are used to determine which water masses are present at the time of each dump. Records of sewage sludge dumping at the site are obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This report correlates data regarding volumes and dates of dumps at the site with information on the water masses present at each dump. It is the latest in a series of summaries covering the last fifteen years. A summary of the amounts of wastes received by each of the three principal water masses for 1991 is presented. In 1991, 1538.8 X 10⁶ gallons of sewage sludge were dumped at the 106-mile site. Approximately 72 percent (by volume) of the sludge was disposed of in slope water, 7 percent in shelf water, and the remalnlng 21 percent was received by warm-core rings.
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Content Notes:by Cynthia M. Ruhsam.
"May 1992."
Includes bibliographical references (page 4).
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