Aquatic Life Studies at Badger Army Ammunition Plant. Volume I.

Abstract

The United States Army Medical Research and Development Command has been supporting research in order to recommend environmental quality standards for the munitions industry. Areas investigated included water quality, sediment chemistry, munitions constitutent concentrations, periphyton community and the benthic macroinvertebrate community. Periphyton and invertebrates were selected for study because of the relative ease of sampling and analysis of this group as well as their usefulness as indicators of environmental quality. A variety of parameters were calculated for both groups of organisms studied. Standing crop, species diversity, and colonization rates were obtained for both algae and invertebrates. Additionally, chlorophyll a and biomass were calculated from algal samples.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1976
Accession Number
ADA033547

Entities

People

  • B. E. Sherwood
  • D. C. Cooper
  • J. M. Stilwell
  • M. A. Eischen
  • M. C. Matthews

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  • Battelle Memorial Institute

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  • Biomedical

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  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Analytical Chemistry
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  • Environmental science

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