The Water Research Commission (WRC) recently hosted a workshop to discuss and develop an integrated approach to deal with the monitoring and management of contaminated sediments. The workshop, which was entitled “The Sediment Conundrum”, was attended by a wide range of researchers, consultants and companies working with sediment analysis. Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa from the WRC opened the proceedings saying that the sediment environment is highly variable and inevitably complex, both of which contribute to the difficulty in monitoring and managing contaminated sediments. She explained that scientific decisions are based on the results received back from laboratories, yet it is only with the use of consistent methods for sample collection, manipulation, and storage that accurate data can be obtained in order to co-ordinate programs which prevent, remediate, and manage contaminated sediment.
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