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Inferring Causes of Biological Impairment In the Clear Fork Watershed, West Virginia (Final)
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Inferring Causes of Biological Impairment In the Clear Fork Watershed, West Virginia (Final). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-08/146, 2010.
Impact/Purpose:
The Coal River, WV case study illustrates a causal assessment in a watershed using the USEPA stressor identification process described on www.epa.gov/caddis.
Description:
EPA announced the availability of the final report, Inferring Causes of Biological Impairment in the Clear Fork Watershed, West Virginia. This study illustrates a causal assessment in a watershed using the US EPA stressor identification process described on the www.epa.gov/caddis website. This case study demonstrates that a watershed-wide causal assessment has several advantages for making analysis practical, defensible, and showing the relationships among interconnected waterbodies.
URLs/Downloads:
Inferring Causes of Biological Impairment in the Clear Fork Watershed, West Virginia (PDF, 108 pp, 8398 KB, about PDF)The Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System (Caddis)