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Central Plains Center for BioAssessment. An overview of our projects. Debbie Baker. Sept. 2004. History. Facilitate coordination of regional-based nutrient criteria and biocriteria for waterbodies of USEPA Region 7. Region. Nutrient and Biocriteria Workgroups. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Central Plains Center Central Plains Center for BioAssessmentfor BioAssessment

Debbie BakerDebbie Baker

An overview of our projects.An overview of our projects.

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• Facilitate coordination of regional-based nutrient criteria and biocriteria for waterbodies of USEPA Region 7.

History

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Region

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Nutrient and Biocriteria Workgroups

• EPA's Clean Water Action Plan 1998• Goal – protect aquatic life from nutrient

overenrichment. • USEPA Region 7, Kansas City• Nebraska• Iowa• Kansas• Missouri

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Nutrient Criteria• Goal – establish draft benchmark nutrient criteria for

lakes, streams, and wetlands of the US EPA Region 7 and the Central Plains Region.

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Streams

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Nutrient Criteria cont’d

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Biocriteria workgroup• Goal - adoption of narrative biological criteria as part of State water quality standards.• Annual meetings (workshops) available on website.• Symposia open to others.• Currently macroinvertebrate database to examine reference stream conditions.

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National Park Service• Heartland Network Inventory and

Monitoring Program

• Develop monitoring plan for surface waters

• Literature, database, GIS, analyses

• 15 parks

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DO monitoring

• Kansas TMDL streams• Measure DO levels in water column and oxygen demand (BOD and SOD)• Long-term productivity at Soldier and Cedar Creeks

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REMAP

• KDWP sampled streams 2000/2001

• LeeAnn taxonomist for 2001 bugs

• KU museum ID fish

• Liz format data

• Raw data metrics

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Physical Habitat Variables(1) Channel morphology

• Mean thalweg depth (m) (xdepth)• Standard deviation of thalweg depth (cm) (sddepth)• Mean wetted width (m) (xwidth)• Mean wetted width x depth (m2) (xwxd)• Mean residual depth (m2/100 m reach length)=cm (rp100)• Mean bankfull width (m) (xbkf_w)• Mean bankfull height (m) (xbkf_h)• Mean incision height (m) (xinc_h)• Channel Sinuosity (sinu)• Water Surface gradient over reach (%) (xslope)

NDEQ Dec. 2000

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Mean Bankfull Height (m) From All Basins In Nebraska, 1994-95 REMAP

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Wadeable Stream Assessment

• National EPA study on over 500 randomly chosen streams

• Follow-up to study in Western and Atlantic states

• REMAP methods• Sample TX and NE streams• Sort and identify macroinvertebrates from

TX, NE, KS, MO, and OK

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Outreach

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