Datasets / Survey for contaminants in sediments in Pigeon Creek at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Marion, Illinois


Survey for contaminants in sediments in Pigeon Creek at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Marion, Illinois

Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

A survey for environmental contaminants was conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel in 1986 which included several locations on Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge CONWR. During this survey, small concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls PBCs were detected in the Pigeon Creek, a small stream located along the northern edge of Crab Orchard Lake. A followup survey was initiated in 1988 to make a further determination of specific areas of potential PCB contamination in Pigeon Creek.