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| Title | Chemical Contamination, Acute Toxicity in Laboratory Tests, and Benthic Impacts in Sediments of Puget Sound: A summary of results of the joint 1997-1999 Ecology/NOAA survey |
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Chemical Contamination, Acute Toxicity in Laboratory Tests, and Benthic Impacts in Sediments of Puget Sound: A summary of results of the joint 1997-1999 Ecology/NOAA survey (Number of pages: 167) (Publication Size: 12MB)
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| Author(s) | Long, E., M. Dutch, S. Aasen, K. Welch, and M.J. Hameedi | ||||
| Description | From 1997-1999, sediments were collected throughout Puget Sound as part of a joint monitoring program conducted by the Washington State Department of Ecology and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Analyses were performed to quantify concentrations of potentially toxic chemicals, responses in laboratory toxicity tests, and the structure of benthic infauna communities in sediments. Degraded sediment conditions occurred in samples that represented about 1%, high quality in about 68%, and intermediate conditions in about 31% of the total study area. Quality is also compared between six Puget Sound regions, and to estuaries nationwide. Relative to many other estuaries and marine bays along the U.S. coastline, Puget Sound sediments were ranked among the least contaminated and toxic. | ||||
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| Keywords | analyses, results, toxicity, ocean, urban, study, water, chemical, WRIA 17, sediment, toxic, quality, survey, Puget Sound, laboratory, contamination, benthic | ||||
| WATERSHED | Water Resource Inventory Areas (WRIA 01,WRIA 03,WRIA 06,WRIA 07,WRIA 09,WRIA 10,WRIA 13,WRIA 14,WRIA 15,WRIA 17,WRIA PS) |
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| RELATED PUBLICATIONS | Title:
POSTER: South Sound Sediment Quality and Partnership Opportunities for 2011 Sediment Monitoring in South Puget Sound and Budd Inlet Sediment Quality Triad Index in Puget Sound Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Year 3, Southern Puget Sound Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Year 2, Central Puget Sound Sediment Quality in Puget Sound: Year 1, Northern Puget Sound Final Quality Assurance Project & Implementation Plan: Measures of Bioeffects Associated with Toxicants in Puget Sound: Survey of Sediment Contamination, Toxicity, and Benthic Macroinfaunal Community Structure |
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