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Sediment Toxicity to Benthic Communities Description of Work At two of Wisconsin's Areas of Concern (AOCs) on Lake Michigan, the Sheboygan River AOC and Milwaukee Estuary AOC, the USGS will assess whether sediment toxicity from PCBs, PAHs, selected metals, ammonia, or dissolved oxygen is present at acutely toxic or chronically toxic concentrations using sediment toxicity tests conducted with amphipods and midges. Study planning and literature search have been completed. Sediment was collected in October 2016 from sites in the two AOCs and sites in two non-AOC comparison sites. Assesments will be done at two additional sites: Kewaunee River and Oak Creek. Laboratory toxicity tests and chemical analyses are in progress, including sediment toxicity testing... Categories: Project; Tags: Area of Concern, Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Has Spatial, Short term (2 to 5 years), Template 685, Toxic Substances, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, beikenberry@usgs.gov, benthos, sediment, toxicity, Fewer tags Jeorse Park Beach Contamination Description of Work Jeorse Park Beach is located in East Chicago, Indiana, within the Grand Calumet River Area of Concern (AOC), which has been identified as having all 14 beneficial use designations impaired, including beach closings. Jeorse Park Beach has been identified as one of the most highly contaminated beaches in the nation, with annual beach closings due to bacterial contamination as high as 76% in 2010. Further, beach closings have steadily increased each year since beach monitoring was initiated in 2005 in response to the Beaches Environmental and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act. Beach closings represent an environmental, social, and economic burden, the alleviation of which require various remediation strategies... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, E. coli, Ecosystem health, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Human health, Lake, Lake:Lake Michigan, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, area of concern, beach closings, environmental justice, hydrodynamics, sewage contamination, Fewer tags Benthic Communities and Sediment and Water Toxicity in the Rochester Embayment AOC Description of Work The study will be implemented in two phases due to logistical constraints and the need to incorporate methods developed (and findings) from a comparable investigation underway in another AOC. The first phase will consist of site selection, methods refinement, work-plan development, subcontract assembly, site reconnaissance, and sediment collection which will be done mainly during FY2013. The second phase will consist of macroinvertebrate identification, sediment toxicity testing, data analysis and interpretation, and report preparation and review mainly during FY2014. In brief, we will generate bed sediment toxicity and benthic community data needed to test two related hypotheses that address... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Area of Concern, Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Chironomus dilutus, GLRI, All tags... Genesee River, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Rochester Embayment, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, beneficial use impairment, bioassay, macroinvertebrate, plankton, sediment toxicity, Fewer tags Benthic Communities and Sediment Toxicity in the St Lawrence River AOC Description of Work This study will generate bed sediment toxicity and benthic community data needed to test two related hypotheses that address the two criteria for delisting the benthos BUI. The first hypothesis is that bed sediments at selected sample locations in the AOC (in three tributaries and in the St. Lawrence River) are no more toxic to the test species than bed sediments collected from control sites located outside (generally upstream from) the AOC. Acute (survival) and chronic (growth) whole bed-sediment toxicity tests will be conducted using the midge (Chironomus dilutus), following standard methods (USEPA 1994; USEPA 2000). The second hypothesis is that the benthic macroinvertebrate communities from... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Area of Concern, Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Chironomus dilutus, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River at Massena, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, beneficial use impairment, bioassay, macroinvertebrate, sediment toxicity, Fewer tags Water Toxicity in the St. Lawrence River at Massena Area of Concern Description of Work Past water-quality issues in the St. Lawrence River at Massena, NY resulted in a determination that selected beneficial uses may be impaired in a surrounding Area of Concern (AOC) and on the Canadian side of the international boundary (Cornwall, Ontario). The plankton (phytoplankton and zooplankton) Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) was so designated because impairment metrics were unavailable or inconclusive. Recent investigations, however, suggest that plankton communities are relatively healthy and no longer threaten the local ecosystem. Thus, the BUI for plankton may now be outdated in all, or parts of, the St. Lawrence River in the Massena AOC. The primary goal for the Massena (and Cornwall)... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Area of Concern, Areas of concern, Beneficial use impairment, Ceriodaphnia dubia, GLRI, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Ontario, Plankton, Plankton Bioassay, Selenastrum capricornutum, St. Lawrence River, Template 146, Toxic Substances, Toxicity Test, Uploaded in Batch, beneficial use impairment, Fewer tags