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Impact of dredging and dumping on the stability of ebb–flood channel systems
Jeuken, M.-C.J.L.; Wang, Z.B. (2010). Impact of dredging and dumping on the stability of ebb–flood channel systems. Coast. Eng. 57(6): 553-566. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.12.004
In: Coastal Engineering: An International Journal for Coastal, Harbour and Offshore Engineers. Elsevier: Amsterdam; Lausanne; New York; Oxford; Shannon; Tokyo. ISSN 0378-3839; e-ISSN 1872-7379, meer
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Trefwoorden
    ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde
    Dumping
    Environmental management > Dredging
    Hydrographic features > Physiographic features > Estuaries
    Westerschelde [Marine Regions]
Author keywords
    Estuaries; Tidal channels; Dredging; Dumping; Westerschelde;Observations
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  • Jeuken, M.-C.J.L., meer
  • Wang, Z.B., meer
Abstract
    The impact of dredging and dumping on the morphologic stability of the tidal channels is investigated using morphologic field observations for the Westerschelde estuary dating back to 1955. The results are used to verify the theoretical concept presented by Wang and Winterwerp (2001). This concept states that a critical threshold for the amount of sediment dumping exists above which a channel system in equilibrium may become unstable and degenerate. The value of this threshold amounts to 5–10% of the total sediment transport capacity. Verification of this concept using field observations is not straightforward as the morphology of tidal channel often changes as a result of both natural processes and human interferences, i.e. the channels are not in equilibrium. In addition, the morphological timescales associated with channel degeneration are large (decades to centuries). Verification of the theory thus requires a careful analysis of abundant morphological data and numerical modeling of sediment transports. The results of such analyses presented in this study confirm the existence and the approximate magnitude of the critical level for dumping that follows from theory. Refined guidelines are derived to use the theoretical concept as an engineering tool for the evaluation and design of strategies for dumping in estuarine multi-channel systems. In the absence of the required morphological data the indicative theoretical level of 5–10% can be used to obtain a first estimate of the dump capacity in two-channel systems.
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