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Pile Driving at the New Bridge at Tappan Zee: Potential Environmental Impacts
Arthur N Popper1, Mark Moese2, John Rollino3
1Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. apopper@umd.edu.
Abstract:
A new bridge will be constructed to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River in New York. Construction will potentially result in hydroacoustic impacts to the local fish fauna. As a consequence, a substantial environmental impact analysis had to be conducted to obtain construction permits. This paper describes the process of environmental analysis and some of the results of the studies that led up to the final permitting. The process included modeling of pile-driving acoustics, analysis of river ambient noise, analysis of test piling, and observations on fish behavior during these tests.
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