First annual report on the Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6707946· OSTI ID:6707946

Loar, J. M. ^[1]; Adams, S. M.; Blaylock, B. G.; Boston, H. L.; Frank, M. L.; Garten, C. T.; Houston, M. A.; Kimmel, B. L.; Ryon, M. G.; Smith, J. G.; Southworth, G. R.; Stewart, A. J.; Walton, B. T.; Berry, J. B.; Talmage, S. S. ^[2]; Amano, H. ^[3]; Jimenez, B. D. ^[4]; Kitchings, J. T. ^[5]; Meyers-Schoene, L. ^[6]; Mohrbacher, D. A. ^[7] ; Olsen, C. R. ^[8]

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2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
3. JAERI, Tokai Res., Establishment, Ibari-Ken (Japan)
4. School of Pharmacy, Univ. of Puerto Rico (San Juan)
5. ERCE, Denver, CO (United States)
6. Advanced Sciences, Inc., Fernald, OH (United States)
7. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
8. USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Health and Environmental Research

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 first of a series of annual reports presenting the results of BMAP, describes studies that were conducted from March through December 1986.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6707946
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-10399; ON: DE93003679
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Environmental Sciences Division Publication No. 2915
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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