Evaluation of the Eological Management and Enhancement Alernative for Remediation of the K1007-P1 Pond Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Evaluation of the Eological Management and Enhancement Alernative for Remediation of the K1007-P1 Pond

Creator

  • Author: Peterson, M. J.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: [Tennessee]
    Additional Info: ORNL

Date

  • Creation: 2005-10-31

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: An evaluation of the human and ecological risks associated with the P1 Pond and surrounding environs was conducted as part of the ETTP Site-Wide Remedial Investigation. The RI provides the basis for the focus on PCBs as the most important unacceptable risk to human and ecological health in the pond. Other P1 contaminants, media, or pathways of risk to receptors are identified in the RI, but are not addressed as a major risk reduction goal for the ETTP Site-Wide Feasibility Study. Therefore, the goal of the Ecological Management alternative is to reduce unacceptable risks associated with PCBs in fish. Many of the actions proposed for this alternative, however, are likely to reduce risks associated with other contaminants and their pathways. The high PCB concentrations in fish from the P1 Pond are most certainly due in part to the current ecological condition of the pond that maximizes PCB biomagnification. This basic assumption and the factors contributing to it were evaluated by conducting an intensive field study of the P1 Pond in the summer of 2004 (for a thorough presentation of current P1 Pond biological conditions, see Peterson et al. 2005). Major hypotheses regarding the P1 Pond's current fish community, PCB fate and transport processes, pond vegetation, and limnological conditions that contribute to the high PCB levels in fish were validated by the study (Appendix A), The results of the 2004 ecological assessment, in concert with long-term datasets obtained as part of the ETTP Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program (BMAP) and recent abiotic sampling for the RI, provide the basis for the assessment of current conditions.

Subject

  • Keyword: Plants
  • Keyword: Ponds
  • Keyword: Monitoring
  • Keyword: Management
  • Keyword: Sampling
  • Keyword: Transport
  • STI Subject Categories: 54 Environmental Sciences
  • Keyword: Evaluation

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: ORNL/TM-2005/172
  • Grant Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
  • DOI: 10.2172/886006
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 886006
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc874662
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