Biomonitoring to Achieve Control of Toxic Effluents

This EPA case study describes the water quality-based toxicity control procedures that researchers used to address a serious water quality problem on the Cuyahoga River in northeastern Ohio. When the Cuyahoga caught fire at Cleveland, OH, on June 22, 1969, the river immediately became a symbol of the degraded state of the nation¹s surface waters. Since then, significant efforts have been made to improve the Cuyahoga River¹s water quality. The objective of this study is to provide National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program managers, NPDES permit writers, and water quality specialists with an example of how toxicity testing can be used to address pre-identified toxic water quality problems. Charts and tables.Steen, Alexis is the author of 'Biomonitoring to Achieve Control of Toxic Effluents' with ISBN 9780756727987 and ISBN 0756727987.