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ASSESSING WATER QUALITY AND BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY OF THE GREAT RIVERS OF THE CENTRAL U.S.
Citation:
Angradi, T., D W. Bolgrien, B H. Hill, J. R. Kelly, AND E. W. Schweiger. ASSESSING WATER QUALITY AND BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY OF THE GREAT RIVERS OF THE CENTRAL U.S. Presented at Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Symposium 2004, Newport, RI, May 3-7, 2004.
Description:
The goal of USEPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program for Great River Ecosystems (EMAP-GRE) is to demonstrate techniques with which to assess environmental conditions in the Upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers. Previous EMAP efforts have focused on streams, lakes, and estuaries. EMAP-GRE is providing technical guidance nd opportunities to collect and analyze water chemistry, fish, benthic invertebrate, zooplankton, algae, sediment, and habitat data for large floodplain rivers. State-level assessments, based on approximately 30 sites per state, should be completed in 2006. The program is part of EPA's effort to improve the science to assess, and then monitor, water quality and biological integrity. - - - Better understanding of how conditions in Great Rivers respond to environmental stresses will lead to more informed environmental decisions for river management, ecological function restoration, and hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.