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Estimating Acute and Chronic Toxicity of Waters from the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern Using Two Plankton Species

Dates

Start Date
2013-06-01
End Date
2016-09-30

Summary

Background Discharges from non-point sources, municipal and industrial point sources, and combined sewage overflows over the last century resulted in elevated levels of heavy metals, conventional pollutants, phosphorus, and toxic organic contaminants in water and sediments of the Lower Genesee River and Rochester Embayment. As a result, the zooplankton and phytoplankton or “plankton” communities were designated as one of fourteen Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI); i.e., the resource was either impaired or in need of assessment in the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern (AOC). The Rochester Embayment Remedial Action Committee (RAC) was formed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and the Monroe County [...]

Contacts

Principal Investigator :
Barry P Baldigo
Funding Agency :
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Cooperator/Partner :
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
Co-Investigator :
Brian Duffy
CMS Group :
New York Water Science Center

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“Study Sites in the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern”
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“Collecting water sample on Lake Ontario”
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“Zooplankton test organism: Ceriodaphnia dubia”
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“Phytoplankton test organism:Selenastrum capricornutum”
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valueThe results from standardized toxicity tests that expose zooplankton and phytoplankton species to local waters were used to determine if the plankton beneficial use is currently impaired in the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern.
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productDescriptionBaldigo, B. P., B. T. Duffy, A. J. Smith and S. D. George. In press (2016). Toxicity of waters from the Rochester Embayment Area of Concern to the plankton species Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata and Ceriodaphnia dubia. Journal of Great Lakes Research. doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2015.12.007
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Additional Information

Alternate Titles

  • Chronic Toxicity Rochester AOC

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