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-'''Contributor(s):''' Dr. Danny Reible
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 *Processes, Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments<ref name="Reible2014">Reible, D. D., Editor, 2014. Processes, Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments. Springer, New York, NY. 462 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4614-6725-0</ref>
-*Guidance for In-Situ Subaqueous Capping of Contaminated Sediments<ref name="Palermo1998">Palermo, M., Maynord, S., Miller, J. and Reible, D., 1998. Guidance for In-Situ Subaqueous Capping of Contaminated Sediments. Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments (ARCS) Program, Great Lakes National Program Office, US EPA 905-B96-004. 147 pp.  [//www.enviro.wiki/images/e/eb/USEPA_905-B96-004.pdf  Report pdf]</ref>
+*Guidance for In-Situ Subaqueous Capping of Contaminated Sediments<ref name="Palermo1998">Palermo, M., Maynord, S., Miller, J. and Reible, D., 1998. Guidance for In-Situ Subaqueous Capping of Contaminated Sediments. Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments (ARCS) Program, Great Lakes National Program Office, US EPA 905-B96-004. 147 pp.  [//www.enviro.wiki/images/e/eb/USEPA_905-B96-004.pdf Report pdf]</ref>
 ==Introduction==
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 ==Cap Design and Materials for Chemical Containment==
-An inert material such as sand can be effective as a capping material where contaminants are strongly associated with solids and where the operative site specific transport mechanisms do not lead to rapid contaminant migration through such a material. Additional contaminant containment can often be achieved through the placement of clean sediment, e.g. dredged material from a nearby location.   Other materials as cap layers or amendments may be useful to address particularly mobile contaminants or when particular degradative mechanisms can be exploited. The Anacostia River was the site of a demonstration that first tested “active” or “amended” capping in the field<ref name="Reible2003">Reible, D., Constant, D.W., Roberts, K. and Zhu, Y., 2003. Active capping demonstration project in anacostia DC. In Second International Conference on the Remediation of Contaminated Sediments: October.  Free download available from: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danny-Reible/publication/237747790_ACTIVE_CAPPING_DEMONSTRATION_PROJECT_IN_ANACOSTIA_DC/links/0c96053861030b7699000000/ACTIVE-CAPPING-DEMONSTRATION-PROJECT-IN-ANACOSTIA-DC.pdf ResearchGate]</ref><ref name="Reible2006">Reible, D., Lampert, D., Constant, D., Mutch Jr, R.D. and Zhu, Y., 2006. Active Capping Demonstration in the Anacostia River, Washington, DC. Remediation Journal: The Journal of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Technologies and Techniques, 17(1), pp. 39-53.  [https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.20111 DOI: 10.1002/rem.20111] </ref>. Amended caps are often the best option when groundwater upwelling or other advective processes promote significant mobility of contaminants and the addition of sorbents can slow that contaminant migration<ref name="Ghosh2011">Ghosh, U., Luthy, R.G., Cornelissen, G., Werner, D. and Menzie, C.A., 2011. In-situ Sorbent Amendments: A New Direction in Contaminated Sediment Management. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(4), pp. 1163-1168. [//www.enviro.wiki/images/9/94/Ghosh2011.pdf  Article pdf]</ref>.  Although a variety of materials have been proposed for sediment caps, a far smaller number of options have been successfully employed in the field.
+An inert material such as sand can be effective as a capping material where contaminants are strongly associated with solids and where the operative site specific transport mechanisms do not lead to rapid contaminant migration through such a material. Additional contaminant containment can often be achieved through the placement of clean sediment, e.g. dredged material from a nearby location.   Other materials as cap layers or amendments may be useful to address particularly mobile contaminants or when particular degradative mechanisms can be exploited. The Anacostia River was the site of a demonstration that first tested “active” or “amended” capping in the field<ref name="Reible2003">Reible, D., Constant, D.W., Roberts, K. and Zhu, Y., 2003. Active capping demonstration project in anacostia DC. In Second International Conference on the Remediation of Contaminated Sediments: October.  Free download available from: [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danny-Reible/publication/237747790_ACTIVE_CAPPING_DEMONSTRATION_PROJECT_IN_ANACOSTIA_DC/links/0c96053861030b7699000000/ACTIVE-CAPPING-DEMONSTRATION-PROJECT-IN-ANACOSTIA-DC.pdf ResearchGate]</ref><ref name="Reible2006">Reible, D., Lampert, D., Constant, D., Mutch Jr, R.D. and Zhu, Y., 2006. Active Capping Demonstration in the Anacostia River, Washington, DC. Remediation Journal: The Journal of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Technologies and Techniques, 17(1), pp. 39-53.  [https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.20111 DOI: 10.1002/rem.20111] </ref>. Amended caps are often the best option when groundwater upwelling or other advective processes promote significant mobility of contaminants and the addition of sorbents can slow that contaminant migration<ref name="Ghosh2011">Ghosh, U., Luthy, R.G., Cornelissen, G., Werner, D. and Menzie, C.A., 2011. In-situ Sorbent Amendments: A New Direction in Contaminated Sediment Management. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(4), pp. 1163-1168. [//www.enviro.wiki/images/9/94/Ghosh2011.pdf Article pdf]</ref>.  Although a variety of materials have been proposed for sediment caps, a far smaller number of options have been successfully employed in the field.
 Metals migration is very site dependent due to the potential for many metals to complex with other species in the interstitial water and the specific metal speciation present at a site.  Often, the strongly reducing environment beneath a cap renders many common metals unavailable through the formation of metal sulfides.  In such cases, a simple sand cap can be very effective.  Amended caps to manage metal contaminated sediments may be advantageous when site specific conditions lead to elevated metals mobility, but should be supported with site specific testing<ref name="Viana2008">Viana, P.Z., Yin, K. and Rockne, K.J., 2008. Modeling Active Capping Efficacy. 1. Metal and Organometal Contaminated Sediment Remediation. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(23), pp. 8922-8929. [https://doi.org/10.1021/es800942t DOI: 10.1021/es800942t]</ref>.
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 It is possible to create a hydrophobic, sorbing layer for non-polar organics by exchanging a cationic surfactant onto the surface of clays such as zeolites and bentonites,. Organoclay is a modified bentonite containing such substitutions that has been evaluated for control of non-aqueous phase NAPLs and other organic contaminants<ref name="Reible2007">Reible, D.D., Lu, X., Moretti, L., Galjour, J. and Ma, X., 2007. Organoclays for the capping of contaminated sediments. AIChE Annual Meeting.  ISBN: 978-081691022-9</ref>.  An organoclay cap has been implemented for sediment remediation at the McCormick and Baxter site in Portland, OR<ref name="Parrett2005">Parrett, K. and Blishke, H., 2005. 23-Acre Multilayer Sediment Cap in Dynamic Riverine Environment Using Organoclay an Adsorptive Capping Material. Presentation to Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), 26th Annual Meeting.</ref>.  A similar organic sorbing phase can be formed by treating zeolites with surfactants but this approach has not been reported for contaminated sediments.
-Activated carbon is a strong sorbent of hydrophobic organic compounds and has been used as a [[In Situ Treatment of Contaminated Sediments with Activated Carbon | treatment for sediments]] or as an active sorbent within a capping layer<ref name="Zimmerman2004">Zimmerman, J.R., Ghosh, U., Millward, R.N., Bridges, T.S. and Luthy, R.G., 2004. Addition of Carbon Sorbents to Reduce PCB and PAH Bioavailability in Marine Sediments: Physicochemical Tests. Environmental Science and Technology, 38(20), pp. 5458-5464.  [https://doi.org/10.1021/es034992v DOI: 10.1021/es034992v]</ref><ref name="Werner2005">Werner, D., Higgins, C.P. and Luthy, R.G., 2005. The sequestration of PCBs in Lake Hartwell sediment with activated carbon. Water Research, 39(10), pp. 2105-2113.  [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2005.03.019 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2005.03.019]</ref><ref name="Abel2018">Abel, S. and Akkanen, J., 2018. A Combined Field and Laboratory Study on Activated Carbon-Based Thin Layer Capping in a PCB-Contaminated Boreal Lake. Environmental Science and Technology, 52(8), pp. 4702-4710. [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b05114 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05114] [//www.enviro.wiki/images/e/ec/Abel2018.pdf  Article pdf]</ref><ref name="Payne 2018">Payne, R.B., Ghosh, U., May, H.D., Marshall, C.W. and Sowers, K.R., 2019. A Pilot-Scale Field Study: In Situ Treatment of PCB-Impacted Sediments with Bioamended Activated Carbon. Environmental Science and Technology, 53(5), pp. 2626-2634. [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b05019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05019]</ref><ref name="Yan2020">Yan, S., Rakowska, M., Shen, X., Himmer, T., Irvine, C., Zajac-Fay, R., Eby, J., Janda, D., Ohannessian, S. and Reible, D.D., 2020. Bioavailability Assessment in Activated Carbon Treated Coastal Sediment with In situ and Ex situ Porewater Measurements. Water Research, 185, p. 116259.  [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116259 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116259]</ref>.  Placement of activated carbon for sediment capping is difficult due to the near neutral buoyancy of the material but it has been applied in this manner in relatively low energy environments such as Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, NY<ref name="Vlassopoulos2017">Vlassopoulos, D., Russell, K., Larosa, P., Brown, R., Mohan, R., Glaza, E., Drachenberg, T., Reible, D., Hague, W., McAuliffe, J. and Miller, S., 2017. Evaluation, Design, and Construction of Amended Reactive Caps to Restore Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, New York, USA. Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering, 10(1), pp. 13-27.  Free download available from: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317762995_Evaluation_design_and_construction_of_amended_reactive_caps_to_restore_Onondaga_lake_Syracuse_New_York_USA ResearchGate]</ref>.  Alternatives in higher energy environments include placement of activated carbon in a mat such as the CETCO Reactive Core Mat (RCM)<sup>&reg;</sup> or Huesker Tektoseal<sup>&reg;</sup>, or as a composite material such as SediMite<sup>&reg;</sup> or AquaGate<sup>&reg;</sup>.   In the case of the mats, powdered or granular activated carbon can be placed in a controlled layer while the density of the composite materials is such that they can be broadcast from the surface and allowed to settle to the bottom.  In a sediment treatment application, the composite material would either be worked into the surface or allowed to intermix gradually by bioturbation and other processes.  In a capping application, the mat or composite material would typically be combined or overlain with a sand or other capping layer to keep it in place and to provide a chemical isolation layer away from the sediment surface.
+Activated carbon is a strong sorbent of hydrophobic organic compounds and has been used as a [[In Situ Treatment of Contaminated Sediments with Activated Carbon | treatment for sediments]] or as an active sorbent within a capping layer<ref name="Zimmerman2004">Zimmerman, J.R., Ghosh, U., Millward, R.N., Bridges, T.S. and Luthy, R.G., 2004. Addition of Carbon Sorbents to Reduce PCB and PAH Bioavailability in Marine Sediments: Physicochemical Tests. Environmental Science and Technology, 38(20), pp. 5458-5464.  [https://doi.org/10.1021/es034992v DOI: 10.1021/es034992v]</ref><ref name="Werner2005">Werner, D., Higgins, C.P. and Luthy, R.G., 2005. The sequestration of PCBs in Lake Hartwell sediment with activated carbon. Water Research, 39(10), pp. 2105-2113.  [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2005.03.019 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2005.03.019]</ref><ref name="Abel2018">Abel, S. and Akkanen, J., 2018. A Combined Field and Laboratory Study on Activated Carbon-Based Thin Layer Capping in a PCB-Contaminated Boreal Lake. Environmental Science and Technology, 52(8), pp. 4702-4710. [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b05114 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05114] [//www.enviro.wiki/images/e/ec/Abel2018.pdf Article pdf]</ref><ref name="Payne 2018">Payne, R.B., Ghosh, U., May, H.D., Marshall, C.W. and Sowers, K.R., 2019. A Pilot-Scale Field Study: In Situ Treatment of PCB-Impacted Sediments with Bioamended Activated Carbon. Environmental Science and Technology, 53(5), pp. 2626-2634. [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b05019 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05019]</ref><ref name="Yan2020">Yan, S., Rakowska, M., Shen, X., Himmer, T., Irvine, C., Zajac-Fay, R., Eby, J., Janda, D., Ohannessian, S. and Reible, D.D., 2020. Bioavailability Assessment in Activated Carbon Treated Coastal Sediment with In situ and Ex situ Porewater Measurements. Water Research, 185, p. 116259.  [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116259 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116259]</ref>.  Placement of activated carbon for sediment capping is difficult due to the near neutral buoyancy of the material but it has been applied in this manner in relatively low energy environments such as Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, NY<ref name="Vlassopoulos2017">Vlassopoulos, D., Russell, K., Larosa, P., Brown, R., Mohan, R., Glaza, E., Drachenberg, T., Reible, D., Hague, W., McAuliffe, J. and Miller, S., 2017. Evaluation, Design, and Construction of Amended Reactive Caps to Restore Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, New York, USA. Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering, 10(1), pp. 13-27.  Free download available from: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317762995_Evaluation_design_and_construction_of_amended_reactive_caps_to_restore_Onondaga_lake_Syracuse_New_York_USA ResearchGate]</ref>.  Alternatives in higher energy environments include placement of activated carbon in a mat such as the CETCO Reactive Core Mat (RCM)<sup>&reg;</sup> or Huesker Tektoseal<sup>&reg;</sup>, or as a composite material such as SediMite<sup>&reg;</sup> or AquaGate<sup>&reg;</sup>.   In the case of the mats, powdered or granular activated carbon can be placed in a controlled layer while the density of the composite materials is such that they can be broadcast from the surface and allowed to settle to the bottom.  In a sediment treatment application, the composite material would either be worked into the surface or allowed to intermix gradually by bioturbation and other processes.  In a capping application, the mat or composite material would typically be combined or overlain with a sand or other capping layer to keep it in place and to provide a chemical isolation layer away from the sediment surface.
 As an alternative to a sorptive capping amendment, low-permeability cap amendments have been proposed to enhance cap design life by decreasing pore water advection.  Low permeability clays are an effective means to divert upwelling groundwater away from a contaminated sediment area but are difficult to place in the aqueous environment.  Bentonite clays can be placed in mats similar to what is done to provide a low permeability liner in landfills. There are also commercial products that can place clays directly such as the composite material AquaBlok<sup>&reg;</sup>, a bentonite clay and polymer based mineral around an aggregate core<ref name="Barth2008">Barth, E.F., Reible, D. and Bullard, A., 2008. Evaluation of the physical stability, groundwater seepage control, and faunal changes associated with an AquaBlok<sup>&reg;</sup> sediment cap. Remediation: The Journal of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Technologies and Techniques, 18(4), pp.63-70.  [https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.20183 DOI: 10.1002/rem.20183]</ref>.

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 Capping is an ''in situ'' remedial technology for contaminated sediments that involves placement of a clean substrate on the sediment surface.Capping contaminated sediments following [[Wikipedia: Dredging | dredging operations]] and capping of dredged material to stabilize contaminants has been a common practice by the United States Army Corps of Engineers since the 1970s.  Beginning in the 1980s, in Japan and subsequently elsewhere, capping has been used more widely as a remedial approach to improve the quality of the bottom substrate and reduce contaminant exposures to benthic organisms and fish.  The USEPA published a capping guidance document in 1998 that summarizes past uses of sediment capping and outlines its basic design<ref name="Palermo1998" />.    Although capping technology has developed substantially in the past 20 years, this early reference still provides useful information on the approach and its applications.  A more recent summary of capping is described in Reible 2014<ref name="Reible2014" />.
 <onlyinclude>Capping serves to contain contaminated sediment solids, isolate contaminants from benthic organisms and reduce contaminant transport to the sediment surface and overlying water.  The clean substrate may be an inert material such as sand, a natural sorbing material such as other sediments or clays, or be amended with an active/reactive material to enhance the isolation of the contaminants.  Amendments to enhance contaminant isolation include permeability reduction agents to divert groundwater flow, sorbents to retard contaminant migration through the capping layer or provide greater accumulation capacity, or reagents to encourage degradation or transformation of the contaminants.</onlyinclude>
 The basic concept of a cap is illustrated in Figure 1.  The Figure also illustrates that a cap is often a thin layer or layers relative to water depth and generally causes little disturbance to the underlying sediments or body of water in which it is placed.   Depending upon the erosive forces to which the cap may be subjected, the surface layer may be composed of relatively coarse material to withstand those erosive forces.

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-<onlyinclude> Capping is an ''in situ'' remedial technology that involves placement of a clean substrate on the surface of [[Contaminated Sediments - Introduction | contaminated sediments]] to reduce contaminant uptake by benthic organisms and contaminant flux to surface water.  Simple sand caps can be effective in reducing exposure of benthic organisms and in limiting oxygen transport into the contaminated sediments, resulting in precipitation of metal sulfides. Amendments are sometimes included in caps to reduce cap permeability and groundwater upwelling, to increase contaminant sorption or biodegradation, or to improve habitat <onlyinclude>
+Capping is an ''in situ'' remedial technology that involves placement of a clean substrate on the surface of [[Contaminated Sediments - Introduction | contaminated sediments]] to reduce contaminant uptake by benthic organisms and contaminant flux to surface water.  Simple sand caps can be effective in reducing exposure of benthic organisms and in limiting oxygen transport into the contaminated sediments, resulting in precipitation of metal sulfides. Amendments are sometimes included in caps to reduce cap permeability and groundwater upwelling, to increase contaminant sorption or biodegradation, or to improve habitat
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 Capping is an ''in situ'' remedial technology for contaminated sediments that involves placement of a clean substrate on the sediment surface.Capping contaminated sediments following [[Wikipedia: Dredging | dredging operations]] and capping of dredged material to stabilize contaminants has been a common practice by the United States Army Corps of Engineers since the 1970s.  Beginning in the 1980s, in Japan and subsequently elsewhere, capping has been used more widely as a remedial approach to improve the quality of the bottom substrate and reduce contaminant exposures to benthic organisms and fish.  The USEPA published a capping guidance document in 1998 that summarizes past uses of sediment capping and outlines its basic design<ref name="Palermo1998" />.    Although capping technology has developed substantially in the past 20 years, this early reference still provides useful information on the approach and its applications.  A more recent summary of capping is described in Reible 2014<ref name="Reible2014" />.
-Capping serves to contain contaminated sediment solids, isolate contaminants from benthic organisms and reduce contaminant transport to the sediment surface and overlying water.  The clean substrate may be an inert material such as sand, a natural sorbing material such as other sediments or clays, or be amended with an active/reactive material to enhance the isolation of the contaminants.  Amendments to enhance contaminant isolation include permeability reduction agents to divert groundwater flow, sorbents to retard contaminant migration through the capping layer or provide greater accumulation capacity, or reagents to encourage degradation or transformation of the contaminants.
+<onlyinclude>Capping serves to contain contaminated sediment solids, isolate contaminants from benthic organisms and reduce contaminant transport to the sediment surface and overlying water.  The clean substrate may be an inert material such as sand, a natural sorbing material such as other sediments or clays, or be amended with an active/reactive material to enhance the isolation of the contaminants.  Amendments to enhance contaminant isolation include permeability reduction agents to divert groundwater flow, sorbents to retard contaminant migration through the capping layer or provide greater accumulation capacity, or reagents to encourage degradation or transformation of the contaminants.</onlyinclude>
 The basic concept of a cap is illustrated in Figure 1.  The Figure also illustrates that a cap is often a thin layer or layers relative to water depth and generally causes little disturbance to the underlying sediments or body of water in which it is placed.   Depending upon the erosive forces to which the cap may be subjected, the surface layer may be composed of relatively coarse material to withstand those erosive forces.

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 ==Cap Design and Materials for Habitat Restoration==
-In addition to providing chemical isolation and containment, a cap can also be used to provide improvements for organisms by enhancing the habitat characteristics of the bottom substrate</onlyinclude><ref name="Yozzo2004">Yozzo, D.J., Wilber, P. and Will, R.J., 2004. Beneficial use of dredged material for habitat creation, enhancement, and restoration in New York–New Jersey Harbor. Journal of Environmental Management, 73(1), pp. 39-52.  [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.05.008 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.05.008]</ref><ref name="Zhang2016">Zhang, C., Zhu, M.Y., Zeng, G.M., Yu, Z.G., Cui, F., Yang, Z.Z. and Shen, L.Q., 2016. Active capping technology: a new environmental remediation of contaminated sediment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23(5), pp.4370-4386.  [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-6076-8 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6076-8]</ref><ref name="Vlassopoulos2017" /><onlyinclude>. </onlyinclude>Often, contaminated sediment environments are degraded for a variety of reasons in addition to the toxic constituents.  One way to overcome this is to provide both a habitat layer and chemical isolation or contaminant capping layer. Figure 2 illustrates just such a design providing a more appropriate habitat enhancing substrate, in this case by incorporation of additional organic material, vegetation and debris, which is often used by fish species for protection, into the surface layer. In a high energy environment, it should be recognized that it may not be possible to keep a suitable habitat layer in place during high flow events.  This would be true of suitable habitat that had developed naturally as well as a constructed habitat layer and it is presumed that if such a habitat is the normal condition of the waterbody that it will recover over time between such high flow events.
+In addition to providing chemical isolation and containment, a cap can also be used to provide improvements for organisms by enhancing the habitat characteristics of the bottom substrate</onlyinclude><ref name="Yozzo2004">Yozzo, D.J., Wilber, P. and Will, R.J., 2004. Beneficial use of dredged material for habitat creation, enhancement, and restoration in New York–New Jersey Harbor. Journal of Environmental Management, 73(1), pp. 39-52.  [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.05.008 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.05.008]</ref><ref name="Zhang2016">Zhang, C., Zhu, M.Y., Zeng, G.M., Yu, Z.G., Cui, F., Yang, Z.Z. and Shen, L.Q., 2016. Active capping technology: a new environmental remediation of contaminated sediment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23(5), pp.4370-4386.  [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-6076-8 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6076-8]</ref><ref name="Vlassopoulos2017" />. Often, contaminated sediment environments are degraded for a variety of reasons in addition to the toxic constituents.  One way to overcome this is to provide both a habitat layer and chemical isolation or contaminant capping layer. Figure 2 illustrates just such a design providing a more appropriate habitat enhancing substrate, in this case by incorporation of additional organic material, vegetation and debris, which is often used by fish species for protection, into the surface layer. In a high energy environment, it should be recognized that it may not be possible to keep a suitable habitat layer in place during high flow events.  This would be true of suitable habitat that had developed naturally as well as a constructed habitat layer and it is presumed that if such a habitat is the normal condition of the waterbody that it will recover over time between such high flow events.
 ==Summary==
-Clean substrate can be placed at the sediment-water interface for the purposes of reducing exposure to and risk from contaminants in the sediments.  The cap can consist of simple materials such as sand designed to physically stabilize contaminated sediments and separate the benthic community from those contaminants or may include other materials designed to sequester contaminants even under adverse conditions including strong groundwater upwelling or highly mobile contaminants.  The surface of a cap may be designed of coarse material such as gravel or cobble to be stable under high flow events or designed to be more appropriate habitat for benthic and aquatic organisms. <onlyinclude>As a result of its flexibility, simplicity and low cost relative to its effectiveness, capping is one of the most prevalent remedial technologies for sediments.
+Clean substrate can be placed at the sediment-water interface for the purposes of reducing exposure to and risk from contaminants in the sediments.  The cap can consist of simple materials such as sand designed to physically stabilize contaminated sediments and separate the benthic community from those contaminants or may include other materials designed to sequester contaminants even under adverse conditions including strong groundwater upwelling or highly mobile contaminants.  The surface of a cap may be designed of coarse material such as gravel or cobble to be stable under high flow events or designed to be more appropriate habitat for benthic and aquatic organism. As a result of its flexibility, simplicity and low cost relative to its effectiveness, capping is one of the most prevalent remedial technologies for sediments.
 ==References==

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 ==Introduction==
 [[File:SedCapFig1.png|thumb|left|470px|Figure 1. Conceptual sketch of a cap configuration]]
-<onlyinclude>Capping is an ''in situ'' remedial technology for contaminated sediments that involves placement of a clean substrate on the sediment surface. </onlyinclude>Capping contaminated sediments following [[Wikipedia: Dredging | dredging operations]] and capping of dredged material to stabilize contaminants has been a common practice by the United States Army Corps of Engineers since the 1970s.  Beginning in the 1980s, in Japan and subsequently elsewhere, capping has been used more widely as a remedial approach to improve the quality of the bottom substrate and reduce contaminant exposures to benthic organisms and fish.  The USEPA published a capping guidance document in 1998 that summarizes past uses of sediment capping and outlines its basic design<ref name="Palermo1998" />.    Although capping technology has developed substantially in the past 20 years, this early reference still provides useful information on the approach and its applications.  A more recent summary of capping is described in Reible 2014<ref name="Reible2014" />.
+Capping is an ''in situ'' remedial technology for contaminated sediments that involves placement of a clean substrate on the sediment surface.Capping contaminated sediments following [[Wikipedia: Dredging | dredging operations]] and capping of dredged material to stabilize contaminants has been a common practice by the United States Army Corps of Engineers since the 1970s.  Beginning in the 1980s, in Japan and subsequently elsewhere, capping has been used more widely as a remedial approach to improve the quality of the bottom substrate and reduce contaminant exposures to benthic organisms and fish.  The USEPA published a capping guidance document in 1998 that summarizes past uses of sediment capping and outlines its basic design<ref name="Palermo1998" />.    Although capping technology has developed substantially in the past 20 years, this early reference still provides useful information on the approach and its applications.  A more recent summary of capping is described in Reible 2014<ref name="Reible2014" />.
-<onlyinclude>Capping serves to contain contaminated sediment solids, isolate contaminants from benthic organisms and reduce contaminant transport to the sediment surface and overlying water.  The clean substrate may be an inert material such as sand, a natural sorbing material such as other sediments or clays, or be amended with an active/reactive material to enhance the isolation of the contaminants.  Amendments to enhance contaminant isolation include permeability reduction agents to divert groundwater flow, sorbents to retard contaminant migration through the capping layer or provide greater accumulation capacity, or reagents to encourage degradation or transformation of the contaminants. </onlyinclude>
+Capping serves to contain contaminated sediment solids, isolate contaminants from benthic organisms and reduce contaminant transport to the sediment surface and overlying water.  The clean substrate may be an inert material such as sand, a natural sorbing material such as other sediments or clays, or be amended with an active/reactive material to enhance the isolation of the contaminants.  Amendments to enhance contaminant isolation include permeability reduction agents to divert groundwater flow, sorbents to retard contaminant migration through the capping layer or provide greater accumulation capacity, or reagents to encourage degradation or transformation of the contaminants.
-The basic concept of a cap is illustrated in Figure 1.  The Figure also illustrates that a cap is often a thin layer or layers relative to water depth and generally causes little disturbance to the underlying sediments or body of water in which it is placed.   <onlyinclude>Depending upon the erosive forces to which the cap may be subjected, the surface layer may be composed of relatively coarse material to withstand those erosive forces.</onlyinclude>
+The basic concept of a cap is illustrated in Figure 1.  The Figure also illustrates that a cap is often a thin layer or layers relative to water depth and generally causes little disturbance to the underlying sediments or body of water in which it is placed.   Depending upon the erosive forces to which the cap may be subjected, the surface layer may be composed of relatively coarse material to withstand those erosive forces.
 Although a cap is typically thin compared to the water depth, it generally must be thicker than the biologically active zone (BAZ) of the sediments.  The biologically active zone is that zone in which benthic organisms live and interact with the sediment.  Their activities tend to mix the BAZ (known as [[Wikipedia: Bioturbation | bioturbation]]) over the course of a few years and thus a cap that is thinner than the BAZ will tend to become intermixed with the underlying contaminated sediments.   Processes other than bioturbation including diffusion, advection or groundwater upwelling, hyporheic exchange near the interface, biogenic gas production and migration and underlying sediment consolidation can all lead to contaminant migration into and through a cap.  These occur at different rates and intensities and their assessment and evaluation ultimately governs the effectiveness of a cap and the feasibility of its use as a sediment remediation technology for a particular site.

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 *[[Contaminated Sediment Risk Assessment]]
 *[[In Situ Treatment of Contaminated Sediments with Activated Carbon]]
 *[[Passive Sampling of Sediments]]