Port Prespective

摘要

The opening speakers mentioned two NRC reports. I want to mention an ealier report produced by the NRC in 1985, Dredging Coastal Ports: An Assessment of the Issues. This report essentially stated that there is a need for dredging, that port channels will get deeper, and that there are contaminated sediments. The second NRC report, released in 1989, confirmed the presence of contaminated sediments and the need to do something about them. The third report was issued in 1997, again stating that there are contaminated sediments in our ports, harbors, and other waterways, and we need to do something about them. I am afraid that, in five years or so, there will be yet another report that says we have contaminated sediments in our ports and harbors and we should do something about them.