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Biological and Water Quality Studyof the Mahoning River and Hines Run
Mahoning River Corridor of OpportunityCASTLO Property
2002
Mahoning County, OhioDecember 16, 2002OEPA Report EAS/2002-12-7prepared forState of Ohio Environmental Protection AgencyDivision of Emergency and Remedial ResponseNortheast District Officeprepared byState of Ohio Environmental Protection AgencyDivision of Surface WaterLazarus Government Center122 South Front StreetColumbus, Ohio 43215Bob Taft, GovernorChris Jones, DirectorState of OhioEnvironmental Protection Agency
 
DSW/EAS 2002-12-7Mahoning River/Hines Run - CASTLODecember 16, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION.............................................................1SUMMARY..................................................................1RECOMMENDATIONS........................................................2METHODS..................................................................6RESULTS...................................................................9Surface Water............................................................9Sediment Chemistry........................................................9Physical Habitat for Aquatic Life.............................................10Fish Community.........................................................10Macroinvertebrate Community...............................................11REFERENCES..............................................................18APPENDICES...............................................................21
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DSW/EAS 2002-12-7Mahoning River/Hines Run - CASTLODecember 16, 2002
NOTICE TO USERSOhio EPA incorporated biological criteria into the Ohio Water Quality Standards (WQS; OhioAdministrative Code 3745-1) regulations in February 1990 (effective May 1990). These criteriaconsist of numeric values for the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) and Modified Index of Well-Being(MIwb), both of which are based on fish assemblage data, and the Invertebrate Community Index(ICI), which is based on macroinvertebrate assemblage data. Criteria for each index are specifiedfor each of Ohio's five ecoregions (as described by Omernik 1987), and are further organized byorganism group, index, site type, and aquatic life use designation. These criteria, along with theexisting chemical and whole effluent toxicity evaluation methods and criteria, figure prominentlyin the monitoring and assessment of Ohio’s surface water resources.The following documents support the use of biological criteria by outlining the rationale for usingbiological information, the methods by which the biocriteria were derived and calculated, the fieldmethods by which sampling must be conducted, and the process for evaluating results:Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. 1987a. Biological criteria for the protection of aquatic life:Volume I. The role of biological data in water quality assessment. Div. Water Qual. Monit.& Assess., Surface Water Section, Columbus, Ohio.Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. 1987b. Biological criteria for the protection of aquatic life:Volume II. Users manual for biological field assessment of Ohio surface waters. Div. WaterQual. Monit. & Assess., Surface Water Section, Columbus, Ohio.Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. 1989b. Addendum to Biological criteria for the protectionof aquatic life: Volume II. Users manual for biological field assessment of Ohio surfacewaters. Div. Water Qual. Plan. & Assess., Ecological Assessment Section, Columbus, Ohio.Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. 1989c. Biological criteria for the protection of aquatic life:Volume III.. Standardized biological field sampling and laboratory methods for assessingfish and macroinvertebrate communities. Div. Water Quality Plan. & Assess., Ecol. Assess.Sect., Columbus, Ohio.Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. 1990. The use of biological criteria in the Ohio EPAsurface water monitoring and assessment program. Div. Water Qual. Plan. & Assess., Ecol.Assess. Sect., Columbus, Ohio.Rankin, E.T. 1989. The qualitative habitat evaluation index (QHEI): rationale, methods, andapplication. Div. Water Qual. Plan. & Assess., Ecol. Assess. Sect., Columbus, Ohio.
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