DREDGED MUD FROM THE PORT OF KOPER - CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS MULJ IZ LUKE KOPER - UPORABNOST V GRADBENI(TVU

The Port of Koper, one of the biggest and the most important ports in the Northern Adriatic Sea, is constantly faced with the problems caused by the accumulation of marine sediments inside the port, disturbing some of the port’s crucial operations. However, these sediments can be viewed as a potential raw material and, in order to define the best way of using them in the civil-engineering field, an extensive research project has been launched. The preliminary results of this project are presented and discussed in the paper. So far the project has given two main results: first, the concentration of heavy metals in the aqueous leachates is low and, secondly, in their present state, the sediments are too wet, so that there are only limited possibilities for drying them out naturally. For this reason additional technological treatment will be needed.