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Investigation of impacts to federally endangered freshwater mussels of the Lower Ohio River: Chemical and biological survey for environmental contaminants adjacent to the Republic Creosoting Hazardous Waste Site near Joppa, Illinois

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Release Date
12 February 2015
Modified Date
27 August 2015
Publishers
US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Keywords
contaminants, environmental-contaminants-investigation, mussels, organochlorines, polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons, sediment, trace-elements
Identifier
investigation-of-impacts-to-federally-endangered-freshwater-mussels-of-the-lower-ohio-rive
Landing Page
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Maintainers
Richard Easterbrook richard_easterbrook@fws.gov

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Description

A survey for contaminants in bed sediments and freshwater mussels was conducted in the region of the Lower Ohio River adjacent to the Republic Creosoting hazardous waste site near Joppa, Illinois during the 1990 field season. Inorganic and organic chemical analysis was conducted with bed sediments and tissue samples of two freshwater mussel species, Megalonaias gigantea and Ouadrula guadrula, collected from selected locations upstream, adjacent to, and downstream from the site. This paper reports the results of the chemical analyses, which suggest that creosote wastes originating from a creosote waste lagoon at the Republic Creosoting facility are currently being transported into the Ohio River adjacent to the site.


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