Environmental Contaminants in Aquatic Plants, Invertebrates, and Fishes of the San Juan River Mainstem, 1990-1996
Citation
Joel D Lusk, and Zachary R Simpson, Environmental Contaminants in Aquatic Plants, Invertebrates, and Fishes of the San Juan River Mainstem, 1990-1996: .
Summary
The San Juan River Recovery Implementation Program (“SJRIP�) was initiated in October 1991. The SJRIP's goals are to: a) recover the endangered fish in the San Juan River Basin, and b) accommodate the needs of future water development in the San Juan River Basin. The San Juan River provides habitat essential to the survival of two fishes in danger of extinction: the Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) and the razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus). The SJRIP funded investigations of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the San Juan River mainstem environment. The SJRIP Biology Committee identified environmental contamination of river sediment, biota, and water quality, as important aspects of San Juan [...]
Summary
The San Juan River Recovery Implementation Program (“SJRIP�) was initiated in October 1991. The SJRIP's goals are to: a) recover the endangered fish in the San Juan River Basin, and b) accommodate the needs of future water development in the San Juan River Basin. The San Juan River provides habitat essential to the survival of two fishes in danger of extinction: the Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius) and the razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus). The SJRIP funded investigations of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the San Juan River mainstem environment. The SJRIP Biology Committee identified environmental contamination of river sediment, biota, and water quality, as important aspects of San Juan River to be investigated during the 7-year research period (1991-1997). From 1993 to 1994, the SJRIP funding studies on water quality (Abell 1994a). From 1994 to 1996, the SJRIP funded an environmental contaminant investigation of aquatic plants, invertebrates and fish collected from the San Juan River mainstem (this “Synoptic Study�).