JANUARY 20, 2017--Ken Finkelstein and Jay Field of OR&R’s Assessment and Restoration Division attended the Ninth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments, sponsored by Battelle, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 9 -12.

This seminal conference meets every two years and provides updates on sediment toxicity and ecological risk assessment of interest to NOAA's Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP). A variety of interests were represented. New York-New Jersey presentations were highly represented and waste site information presented included the Hudson River, the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, and the Passaic River, all headed for NOAA-led Natural Resource Damage Assessments. Questions to the speakers were encouraged and NOAA attendees made use of that to ask some probing questions concerning potential impacts to NOAA trust resources.

For further information, contact Ken.Finkelstein@noaa.gov.

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