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Main Title Assessment of Interstate Streams in the Susquehanna River Basin, Monitoring Report No. 19, July 1 2004 Through June 30, 2005.
Author L. Y. Steffy ; D. L. Sitlinger
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Assessment and Watershed Protection Div.
Year Published 2006
Report Number PUB-NO-244; I-003991-04
Stock Number PB2010-101138
Additional Subjects Watersheds ; Bioassessments ; Streams ; Water pollution monitoring ; Data synthesis methods ; Tables (Data) ; Figures ; Stream discharge ; Water samples ; Field chemistry ; Macroinvertebrate sampling ; Physical habitat sampling ; Interstate streams ; Susquehanna River Basin ; Water quality indices
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NTIS  PB2010-101138 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 148p
Abstract
The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) used a water quality index (WQI) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (USEPAs) Rapid Bioassessment Protocol III (RBP III) to assess the chemical water quality, biological conditions, and physical habitat of 52 sample sites in the Interstate Streams Water Quality Network from July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2005. Seventy-two of 734 possible parameter observations exceeded water quality standards. Assessment results indicate that approximately 49 percent of the sites supported nonimpaired biological communities. Water quality impacts in the NYPA border streams continue to be mostly from metals, while most PA-MD border sites continued to have higher nitrogen and nitrate values, in addition to some elevated metals.