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Main Title Site-specific water quality studies of the Straight River, Minnesota : complex effluent toxicity, zinc toxicity, and biological survey relationships /
Author Carlson, Anthony R. ; Carlson, A. R. ; Roush, T. H.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Roush, Thomas H.
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1985
Report Number EPA 600/3-85/005
Stock Number PB85-160703
OCLC Number 18576006
Subjects Fishes--Effect of water pollution on ; Water quality--Measurement ; Sewage disposal in rivers, lakes, etc--Environmental aspects
Additional Subjects Zinc ; Toxicity ; Minnows ; Sewage treatment ; Water pollution ; Surveys ; Summer ; Winter ; Rivers ; Environmental impacts ; Daphnia ; Abundance ; Sites ; Tests ; Autumn ; Ceriodaphnia reticulata ; Pimephales promelas ; Water quality data
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=91015EB2.PDF
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EKCD  EPA/600/3-85/005 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 01/30/2009
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-3-85-005 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ELDD  EPA/600/3-85/005 CCTE/GLTED Library/Duluth,MN 03/28/2012
NTIS  PB85-160703 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation ii, 56 p. ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Comparative laboratory toxicity tests using Ceriodaphnia reticulata and the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas were conducted to establish relationships between the toxicity of a sewage treatment plant effluent containing high concentrations of zinc, toxicity of the effluent in the receiving water, toxicity of zinc added to the receiving water and a reference water, and receiving water biota survey data. Water and biota were sampled under summer (3 times), fall (once) and winter (once) conditions over a one year period. The relationships were used in evaluating the protectiveness of a site-specific water quality criterion derived for zinc. A strong correlation between the effluents toxicity to daphnids was established, however, toxicity correlation with adverse impact on river biota could not be established.
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"PB85-160703. "January, 1985." "EPA-600/3-85-005." Photocopy.
Contents Notes
Comparative laboratory toxicity tests using Cariodaphnia reticulata and the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas were conducted to establish relationships between the toxicity of a sweage treatment plant effluent containing high concentrations of zinc, toxicity of the effluent in the receiving water, toxicity of zinc added to the receiving water and a reference water, and receiving water biota survey data. Water and biota were sampled under summer (3 times), fall (once), and winter (once) conditions over a one year period. The relationships were used in evaluating the protectiveness of a site-specific water quality criterion derived for zinc. A strong correlation between the effluents toxicity to daphnids was established, however, toxicity correlation with adverse impact on river biota could not be established. It was concluded that the effluent did not adversely affect taxa composition and abundance at 2 miles (3.2 km) below the discharge to the river. At 2 miles the zinc concentrations ranged from 100 to 154 g/l and averaged 144 g/l on 3 of 4 sampling dates indicating that a site-specific criterion average concentration of 145 g/l, approximately 3 times greater than the national average concentration, would be protective of river biota.