Flocculation of fine-grained sediment in the freshwater fluvial environment : a method of analysis / by I.G. Droppo and E.D. Ongley. : En13-5/90-89E-PDF

"It is known that flocculation significantly alters the settling characteristics of fine-grained suspended sediment. This has important consequences for sediment transport modelling of pathways, fate and effects of sediment-associated contaminants. Traditional sediment sizing techniques are indirect methods which make no attempt to maintain, the original grain-size distribution. This report provides an inexpensive, non-destructive, direct observation alternate method of sediment sizing. This method has demonstrated that flocculation is an important process occurring in rivers which produces relatively stable flocs"--Management Perspective.

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Ministère/Organisme Canada. Environment Canada.
National Water Research Institute (Canada). Rivers Research Branch.
Titre Flocculation of fine-grained sediment in the freshwater fluvial environment : a method of analysis / by I.G. Droppo and E.D. Ongley.
Titre de la série NWRI contribution ; no. 90-89
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
"February 1990."
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes abstract in French.
Information sur la publication Burlington, Ontario : Rivers Research Branch, National Water Research Institute, 1990.
Auteur / Contributeur Droppo, I. G., author.
Ongley, Edwin D., author.
Description 1 online resource (20, (12) pages) : figures.
Numéro de catalogue
  • En13-5/90-89E-PDF
Descripteurs Sediments
Rivers
Water pollution
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