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Technical Note DOER-C3

May 1999

POINT OF CONTACT: For additional information, contact one of the authors, Mr. Richard A.

Price (601-634-3636, pricer1@mail.wes.army.mil) or Dr. Charles R. (Dick) Lee (601-634-3585,

leec@mail.wes.army.mil), or the program managers of the Dredging Operations Environmental

Research Program, Mr. E. Clark McNair (601-634-2070, mcnairc@mail.wes.army.mil) and

Dr. Robert M. Engler (601-634-3624, englerr@mail.wes.army.mil). This technical note should be

cited as follows:

Price, R. A., and Lee, C. R. (1999). "Evaluation of dredged material for

phytoreclamation suitability," DOER Technical Notes Collection (TN DOER-C3), U.S.

Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS.

www.wes.army.mil/el/dots/doer

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