The Relationships between the Pollutants in the Sediments and in the Water of the Delaware and Raritan Canal

The 60-mile-long Delaware and Raritan Canal in New Jersey, USA, serves a major interbasin water source receiving water from the Delaware River and runoff from some S3 sq. miles of land in New Jersey discharging to the Raritan River Basin. Approximately 78 million gallons of water per day are withdrawn for treatment and distribution to soine 600,000 people. The water and the sediments contain some halogenated organic compounds. The study was that of the significance of these compounds in the water supplies. The sediments in the Canal are to be removed, in part, and disposal of the dredge spoils depends on the chemical pollutants.