Megan A. Lionberger Bruce E. Jaffe Neil K. Ganju Scott Wright Gregory Shellenbarger David H. Schoellhamer 2005 <ul> <li>Comparison of a budget developed for 1955-1990 with a budget developed for 1995- 2002 showed decreasing sediment inflow and increased amounts leaving the Bay to upland disposal and sand mining, resulting in an increased rate of erosion of sediment from the Bay floor</li> <li>Finding a way to shift disposal from the Ocean back to the Bay could provide sediment for restoration projects and decrease dredging costs</li> <li>Increased erosion of the Bay is mobilizing legacy contaminants from the sediment bed</li> <li>Restoration projects could increase erosion and mobilization of legacy contaminants</li> <li>Sand mining, ignored in previous budgets, removes almost twice as much sediment from the Bay as dredging</li> </ul> application/pdf en San Francisco Estuary Institute Bay sediment budget: Sediment accounting 101 reports