The George Washington University Engineering Management &
Systems Engineering Department (EMSE) Environmental & Energy
Management Program (E&EM) Spring 2001 (Volume 2, Number 1) A new
approach to cleaning up contaminated urban rivers was presented
by E&EM Professor Jonathan Deason at the EPA Brownfields 2000
conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Information on the
session at which the paper was presented can be seen at
http://www.brownfields2000.org/proceedings/track4.htm#4.11. The
problem of contaminated river sediments is a major emerging
problem across much of the United States. In its recent National
Sediment Quality Study, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) identified 96 watersheds that have problems with
contaminated EPA estimated that the magnitude of the problem
nationwide is very large; about 1.2 billion cubic yards of
contaminated sediments exist across the nation. While clean-up
attempts are being made at some of these areas, no national
remediation program designed to address this p