An Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Sand and Gravel Mining …
Sand and gravel mining refers to the actual process of removal of sand or gravel from a place of occurrence. ... (Kondolf, 1998; Langer, 2003; Kondolf et al., 2008) show that in-stream mining of these aggregates can reduce water quality as well as degrade the channel bed and banks. The mining of these aggregates on the floodplain can affect the ...