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. 2022 Jan 1:40:107778.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107778. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Dataset on geosynthetic material debris contamination of the South-East Baltic shore

Boris Chubarenko  1 , Alexander Kileso  1   2 , Elena Esiukova  1 , Vasiliy Pinchuk  2 , Franz-Georg Simon  3
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Dataset on geosynthetic material debris contamination of the South-East Baltic shore

Boris Chubarenko et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

The database gives information on the contamination of the shore of the South-Eastern Baltic with the debris of geosynthetic materials for the period 2018-2020. This new type of coastal pollution enters the natural environment due to the destruction of coastal protection structures and construction activities. The database contains sections: (1) a list of types of geosynthetic material residues, their photographic images and photographs illustrating examples of finds in natural conditions [1 List_geosynthetic_debris_SEB], (2) monitoring data on the contamination of the beach strip with the debris of geotextiles, braids from gabions, geocontainers (big bags), geocells and geogrids for the beaches of the South-Eastern Baltic for the period 2018-2020 [2 Monitoring_geosynthetic_debris_SEB]; (3) statistical distributions of the found geosynthetic debris by size [3 Scales_geosynthetic_debris_SEB] and (4) results of test surveys on the shores of Lithuania and Poland adjacent to Kaliningrad Oblast. All data refer to the beaches of the Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), including the Russian parts of the Vistula and Curonian Spits, but also contains information on a one-time assessment of the pollution of the beaches of the adjacent territories: the Polish shore from the Poland-Russia border on the Vistula Spit to the mouth of the Vistula River, the Lithuanian shore from the border Lithuania-Russia on the Curonian Spit to the border of Latvia-Lithuania. Materials were collected during field surveys within the ERANET-RUS_Plus joint project EI-GEO, ID 212 (RFBR 18-55-76002 ERA_a, BMBF 01DJ18005).

Keywords: Contamination; Geosynthetics; Geotextiles; Marine littering; Sandy beach.

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Conflict of interest statement

The preparation of the secondary data was organised within the theme 0128-2021-0012 of the State Assignment of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships which have or could be perceived to have influenced the work reported in this article.

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Fig. 1
Monitoring field design in the South-Eastern Baltic. The numbers of the monitoring shore segments are in circles. The numbers of reference points mark the end of the monitoring segment.
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Fig. 2
The group of observers on the beach.
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