Physical, Chemical, and Bioassay Data from the Study on Effects of Elevated Major Ions in Surface Water Contaminated by a Produced Water from Oil Production

Publication Date

2020-03-12

Start Date

2016-09-29

End Date

2016-10-06

Kunz, J.L., and Wang, N., 2020, Physical, Chemical, and Bioassay Data from the Study on Effects of Elevated Major Ions in Surface Water Contaminated by a Produced Water from Oil Production: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BNJ0BT.

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The present method and results could be used for the development of standard methods for conducting short-term effluent and receiving water toxicity tests with juvenile mussels. Furthermore, information on the aquatic toxicity of major ions is needed to support risk assessment and management of complex produced water that may be released to surface waters. Resource managers and UOG production operators have struggled to determine the safe levels of chemical constituents in produced water to make it suitable for beneficial reuse (e.g., irrigation, livestock watering, and stream and wetland augmentation. Major ions associated with reuse have the potential to reach surface waters and cause adverse effects on aquatic biota. Therefore, engineering solutions must be informed by design criteria based on constituent concentrations that do not cause adverse effects, or that minimize biological effects, to aquatic invertebrates and fish. Toxicity data, including the effects of major ions (the present results) and other produced water constituents, could be used by land managers within a risk-based framework to inform decisions on (1) the remediation of produced water spills, (2) mitigation of biological effects following release, and (3) treatment of produced water for beneficial use

• Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC)
• USGS Data Release Products

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