Coal Waste Artificial Reef Program: Reef Measurements Over Four Years in the Sea

摘要

In September 1980, a fishing reef was constructed off the shore of Long Island, southeast of the Fire Island Inlet. The reef consisted of 15,000 blocks made from coal waste materials. The report documents the conclusions of a four-year project that monitored the physical properties, chemical changes, biological communities, and mineral phases of the reef in an ocean environment. Analyses were made based on the monitoring project, as well as an economics project conducted earlier and sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute. Results showed the stabilized, coal-waste artificial reef had no adverse effect on the sea and showed no deterioration. Fish populations were normal and dense in number.