Third report on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program for White Oak Creek Watershed and the Clinch River

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10149547· OSTI ID:10149547

Loar, J M ^[1]; Adams, S M; Bailey, R D ^[2]

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1. ed.
2. and others

As a condition of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on April 1, 1985, a Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program (BMAP) was developed for White Oak Creek (WOC); selected tributaries of WOC, including Fifth Creek, First Creek, Melton Branch, and Northwest Tributary; and the Clinch River. The BMAP currently consists of six major tasks that address both radiological and nonradiological contaminants in the aquatic and terrestrial environs at ORNL. These are (1) toxicity monitoring, (2) bioaccumulation monitoring of nonradiological contaminants in aquatic biota, (3) biological indicator studies, (4) instream ecological monitoring, (5) assessment of contaminants in the terrestrial environment, and (6) radioecology of WOC and White Oak Lake (WOL). The investigation of contaminant transport, distribution, and fate in the WOC embayment-Clinch River-Watts Bar Reservoir system was originally a task of the BMAP but, in 1988, was incorporated into the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Facility Investigation for the Clinch River, a separate study to assess offsite contamination from all three Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 10149547
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM--11358; ON: DE94011606
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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540230
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AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION
CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
LAKES
MONITORING
ORNL
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOECOLOGY
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
STREAMS
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
TOXICITY