Abstract
Sediment is the product of erosion processes that has disaggregated soil into its components of sand, silt, clay, and organic matter, and carried that material into a water body whereupon the particles settle out on the bottom. Sediment is found in every body of water, and can be comprised of one or more of the various particle classes (from fine silts and clays to coarse gravel) in an infinite variety of combinations. Siltation of water reservoirs with sediments belongs to the important problems in water management mainly due to the reducing of the basin’s accumulation capacity and also because of the utilization of sediment waste extracted from water reservoirs. It was evaluated that the storage capacity of the world’s reservoirs is reducing annually by more than 1 % due to siltation. Enormous volumes of sediments have to be dredged worldwide for both maintenance and also environmental reasons.
Beneficial reuse of dredged materials in confined utilization facilities is a new approach that has the potential to productively utilize large quantities of dredged materials. Dredged sediments have a wide range of uses. Considering their properties, it can be thought about their biotic and abiotic utilization.
This paper is focused on the analyzing of chosen physical and chemical bottom sediment characteristics in the reservoirs. It also describes the impact of determined sediment parameters on their properties and reuse in civil engineering.
