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Organic Chemicals in Sediments from the Lower Chesapeake Bay
Huggett, R. J. deFur, P. O.
Huggett, R. J.
deFur, P. O.
Abstract
Many of the toxic organic chemicals affecting the marine environment are hydrophobic and associate with sediments. Sediments can accumulate the substances over long intervals and store them after the original source of the toxic material has been eliminated. Contaminated sediments can provide small but damaging amounts of the to.xicant to the overlying water for decades. For example, more than 10 years after the discovery of Kepone in the James River, Virginia, much of the James' fisheries ·is still closed because Kepone levels are above federal action levels.
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1987
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Chesapeake Research Consortium
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Virginia Institute of Marine Science