Abstract
Approximately 9.6 million tons per year of waste solids, including dredged sediment and construction debris from the New York metropolitan region, was dumped in New York Bight and in western Long Island Sound between 1964 and 1968. This was apparently the largest sediment source discharging directly into the North Atlantic Ocean (excluding the Gulf of Mexico) from the North American continent. Considering the core metropolitan region (population about 9 million) as the dominant source, the average annual discharge was about 1 ton per person (equivalent to about 6 pounds per person per day)
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