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Dredged Material Disposal Management Program for the 
Port of New York and New Jersey: Incremental 
Implementation Pian 
New York District, Corps of Engineers Mitre Corporation, 
May 1980 
* Recognizing the need to evaluate all available 
options for the disposal of dredged material from 
the Port of New Yerk, the Corps of Engineers commis- 
sioned the Mitre Corporation to prepare a two volume 
report which screened and analyzed potential disposal 
options. The Corps of Engineers’ 5 Year Disposal 
Management Program is an outgrowth of the Mitre report 
and is the culmination of years of study of alternatives 
for disposal of dredged material. The options in- 
cluded in this implementation program have been charac- 
terized as "feasible for large volumes of material" and 
"possible in special cases." All of the disposal options 
are being studied in detail and implemented as their 
initial feasibility or continued use is determined. 
* Options ''Feasible for Large Volumes of Material" 
Subaqueous Borrow Pits - Subaqueous Borrow Pits are 
irregularly shaped, shallow sloped sea-floor depressions 
caused by sand and gravel mining. Dredged material is 
transported to aspot over the pit, dropped through the 
water column into the pit and covered with a layer of 
clean sand. This isolates the dredged material from the 
marine ecosystem. 
Upland Disposal - This alternative represents a 
suecinic type of land disposal where special measures 
are taken to confine the dredged material. The objective 
of such a project is to ensure the safe disposal of all 
dredged material. 
Ocean Disposal - Ocean disposal involves the trans- 
port of dredged material from the dredging site to a 
designated shallow ocean disposal site where it would 
be discharged directly into the marine environment. 
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