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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)...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Downloadable,
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OGC WFS Layer,
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Tags: Aquatic Community Health,
Aquatic Community Health,
Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Assessment,
Biogeochemical and Hydrologic Assessment,
BiogeochemicalandHydrologicAssessment, All tags...
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, Organic,
Contaminants, organic,
Cooperative Water Program,
Ecological Assessment of Human and Natural Impacts,
Ecological Assessment of Human and Natural Impacts,
Ecological Assessment of Human and Natural Impacts,
Ecosystem Health,
Ecosystem Health,
Emerging Contaminants,
New York,
Rochester,
Rochester Embayment,
Rochester Embayment AOC,
Rochester Embayment Area of Concern,
USGS New York Water Science Center,
WSC,
Wastewater,
Wastewater,
Wastewater,
Water Quality,
Water Quality,
Water quality, Fewer tags
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