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Virginia Studies

Completed Studies: (All file format is Adobe Acrobat PDF.)

bullet Field Testing of a Physical/Biological Monitoring Methodology for Offshore Dredging and Mining Operations ( 429 pages) – Field testing of a physical/biological monitoring methodology for offshore dredging and mining operations.
 
bullet OCS Study MMS 99-0036 ( 372 pages) – Environmental report use of Federal sand resources for beach and coastal restoration in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia (November 1999).
 
bullet OCS Report MMS 97-0025 ( 4 pages)  – Final report: environmental studies relative to potential sand mining in the vicinity of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, January 1998.

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Offshore sand mining workshop-North Atlantic Coastal Zone Management Office, Plymouth, Massachusetts, November 9, 1999. PowerPoint Presentation: Offshore sand mining for beach nourishment at Sandbridge, Virginia
Microsoft PowerPoint (6.22 Mb; 28 pages)
 

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