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Lakes Reservoirs: Research and Management 2004 9: 163–170 The management lessons learned from sediment remediation in the Detroit River – western Lake Erie watershed 1 2 3 2 John H. Hartig, * Thomas M. Heidtke, Michael A. Zarull and Bonnie Yu 1Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile, Michigan, USA, 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA, and 3National Water Research Institute, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario, Canada Abstract During the 1970s–1990s, considerable emphasis was placed on minimizing the inputs of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from active sources. In addition, between 1993 and 2001, $US130 106 was spent for sediment remediation within the western Lake Erie – Detroit River basin. In general, although PCB contamination of the Detroit River and Lake Erie declined significantly between the 1970s and mid-1990s, it has remained fairly stable over the past 10 years. Control of PCBs and other contaminants at their source remains a primary imperative for action. Remediation of contaminated sediments is growing in importance, however, as greater levels of source control are achieved. From a sediment management perspective, it is esti- mated that between 1993 and 2001 a substantially higher mass of PCBs (over two orders of magnitude higher) was removed as a result of contaminated sediment remediation, as compared to navigational dredging of shipping channels. In addition, there is a strong and compelling rationale for