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

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10158540· OSTI ID:10158540

Loar, J M ^[1]; Adams, S M; Bailey, R D; Blaylock, B G; Boston, H L; Cox, D K; Huston, M A; Kimmel, B L; Loar, J M; Olsen, C R; Ryon, M G; Shugart, L R; Smith, J G; Southworth, G R; Stewart, A J; Walton, B T; Talmage, S S; Murphy, J B; Valentine, C K ^[2]; Appellanis, S M ; Jimenez, B D ^[3]; Huq, M V ^[4]; Meyers-Schone, L J ^[5]; Mohrbacher, D A ^[6]; Olsen, C R ^[7]; Stout, J G ^[8]

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1. ed.
2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
3. Puerto Rico Univ., San Juan (Puerto Rico)
4. Connecticut Dept. of Environmental Protection, Hamden, CT (United States)
5. Frankfurter, Gross-Gerau (Germany)
6. Automated Sciences Group, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
7. USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States). Environmental Sciences Div.
8. Cincinnati Univ., OH (United States)

As a condition of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on April 1, 1986, 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. BMAP consists of seven major tasks that address both radiological and nonradiological contaminants in the aquatic and terrestrial environs on-site and the aquatic environs off-site. These tasks 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; (6) radioecology of WOC and White Oak Lake (WOL); and (7) contaminant transport, distribution, and fate in the WOC embayment-Clinch River-Watts Bar Reservoir system. This document, the second of a series of annual reports, described the results of BMAP studies conducted in 1987.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 10158540
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM--10804; ON: DE93013746
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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