methodology for aquatic ecological risk assessment

... 2.3 Criteria for Selection of Assessment Endpoints for Ecological Risk Assessments Policy goals and societal values — Because the risks to the assessment endpoint are the basis for decision making, ... the maximum baseline risk, and ecological risks will decline in the future and need not be assessed However, separate ecological risk assessments should be performed if these risks could increase ... it is not particular to ecological risk assessment Ecological risk assessors need not know how to sample a well or perform a mass spectral analysis Rather, ecological risk assessors must understand...

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... useful for screening assessments, but the dissolved form is appropriate for definitive risk assessments of aquatic biota for two reasons First, the form in the exposure assessment should match the form ... useful for scoping and screening assessments but are unlikely to be acceptable for definitive assessments Two different expressions of sediment contamination are commonly used in ecological risk assessments: ... estimate risks, but also present results for total concentrations to satisfy the state and regional regulators The total metal analyses were performed in any case for the assessment of risks from...

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... Anguiliformes Anguiliformes Atheriniformes Atheriniformes Atheriniformes Atheriniformes Gasterosteiformes Gasterosteiformes Perciformes Mean Weighted mean Y Variable Perciformes Tetraodontiformes ... Salmoniformes Salmoniformes Salmoniformes Cypriniformes Cypriniformes Taxonomic Extrapolation: Orders within Classes Cypriniformes 225 Siluriformes 203 Perciformes 443 Siluriformes 111 Perciformes ... Perciformes Tetraodontiformes Perciformes Gasterosteiformes Atheriniformes Cypriniformes Tetraodontiformes Perciformes Gasterosteiformes Tetraodontiformes Perciformes Tetraodontiformes n 190 12 34 46 46...

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... REPORTING ECOLOGICAL RISKS The form in which ecological risks are reported is an often neglected aspect of the practice of ecological risk assessment The EPA internal guidance for risk characterization ... as individuals, most risk management decisions for wildlife are based on population-level effects Therefore, for the results of the risk characterization to be of use for risk management, extrapolations ... should be repeated for each new assessment Methods for screening assessments are presented in Chapter The results of the screening assessment should be presented in the definitive assessment as a...

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... necessary to use an ecological risk assessment framework that has been developed for multiple activities The standard ecological risk assessment framework was developed for assessments of individual ... acceptable health and ecological risks would result from remedial decisions It provided a formal methodology for organizing the results of the risk assessment so that the risks that must be balanced ... Risk to an ecological component of a site that has extraordinary local value Intermediate ecological risk • Ecological risk of magnitude between de minimis and de manifestis risk De minimis ecological...

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... LAND USE Land-use scenarios play a different role in ecological risk assessments than they in human health risk assessments For human health risk assessments, remediation depends on the land-use ... piscivores may not forage The PRG for a particular chemical cannot be assumed to protect piscivorous wildlife if information on the toxicity is not available As in the risk assessment for aquatic organisms, ... based on ecological risk or even what level of protection is analogous to the 10-6 risk for human carcinogens (See Section 9.2.3 for a discussion of balancing health and ecological risks.) PRGs...

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... as tiered assessments with increasingly rigorous analysis NRDAs might benefit from the logic of the ecological risk framework and from the ability to adopt risk assessments performed for the remedial ... adjunct to risk assessment, NRDA and ecological risk assessment practices may converge The NRDA process is particularly problematical for federal agencies that have contaminated sites for which ... is likely to be needed for spills or CERCLA emergency actions, but is unlikely to be needed for typical CERCLA NRDAs Where an RI/FS has been performed, the ecological risk assessments in those...

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... W Suter II (Ed.), Ecological Risk Assessment Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL 247–274 Barnthouse, L W 1996 Guide for Developing Data Quality Objectives for Ecological Risk Assessment at DOE Oak ... Agency) 1992a Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment EPA/630/R-92/001 Risk Assessment Forum, Washington, D.C EPA (U.S Environmental Protection Agency) 1992b Dermal Exposure Assessment: Principles ... 2:627–1037 Callahan, C A and B D Steele 1998 Ecological risk assessment guidance for Superfund sites In A de Peyster and K E Day (Eds.), Ecological Risk Assessment: A Meeting of Policy and Science...

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... table with pdf form of a chart for chosen parameter from the attribute table On the described way it is possible to obtain data of water parameters for measured and simulated values for 2006, 2008, ... locations of sampling water for determining its quality; one layer for each year Spatial presentation of locations where hydrometric measurements were preformed; one layer for each year Searching ... protection and other fields, the methodology enables determining permissive pollution loads for each pollutant, by calculating TMDL values The methodology has been developed for the purpose of the research...

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... regional relative risk assessment FRAMEWORK OF THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL The framework for the RRM for regional risk assessment was outlined by Landis and Wiegers (1997) Ecological risk assessment (EcoRA) ... AM 18 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT The first four steps are critical to performing a regional ecological risk assessment and are the foundation of a useful risk assessment that can ... INTRODUCTION TO THE REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT Ecological Risk Assessment Framework Decision Maker Ten Steps Problem Formulation 1,2,3,4 Verification Analysis 17 Risk Characterization Risk Communication...

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... SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION This chapter explores the important link between the regional (ecological) risk assessment (RRA) process and the decisions these assessments inform ... (U.S Environmental Protection Agency) 1997 Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund: Process for Designing and Conducting Ecological Risk Assessments, Interim Final EPA 540-R-97-006 ... applied to ecological risk assessments of multiple stressors, Hum Ecol Risk Assess., 7, 231–237 Moraes, R., Landis, W.G., and Molander, S 2002 Regional risk assessment of a Brazilian rain forest,...

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... 1998 Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment, EPA/630/R-95/002F, Risk Assessment Forum, Washington, D.C U.S Environmental Protection Agency 2003 Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment, EPA/600/P-02/001F, ... REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Results of the Problem Formulation: Conceptual Model Information gathered during the problem formulation phase provided the foundation for constructing ... 2004 2:45 PM 54 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Relative Risk Model as a Tool for Risk Assessors and Resource Managers 86 Limitations of Relative Risk Models 87 Conclusions...

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... 10:18 AM 116 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) 1998b Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment Risk Assessment Forum, Washington, D.C EPA/630/R95/OOZF ... test these findings The results of this assessment show the RRM to be robust for large-scale screening-level ecological risk assessments (EcoRA) Uncertainty in risk predictions was high due to course ... habitat within each risk region The matrices thus provide an accounting of risks within a risk region and a comparison of risks among risk regions One of the advantages of the relative risk procedure...

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... 10:18 AM 120 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION The risk assessment for Codorus Creek was the second regional-scale risk assessment using the relative risk model (RRM) to be published ... Conceptual site model (CSM) for the interaction between stressors, habitats, and assessment endpoints This is the conceptual model used for the original risk assessment and then for management scenarios ... ranks per habitat, sum of relative risks per endpoint, and relative risk per risk area Overall Risk Ranks Figure 6.3 provides a summary of overall risk ranks for regions in the CCW, and the scores...

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... for confirmation of the risk predictions The RRM format allows for the creation of hypotheses in the form of patterns of predicted risk These patterns can easily be tested to confirm the risk assessment ... a drawback to the USEPA format is that it does not incorporate a standard methodology for evaluating future trends in risk A recent issue of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (April 2001) ... 152 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Table 7.2 Summary of Percent Changes in Total Risk Scores for Option #2 (10% increase in urban landuse) by Risk Region and Endpoint Risk Water Water...

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... REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT 171 risk region, sum of potential stressor exposure within the risk region, total risk to assessment endpoints within the risk region, and total risk to each assessment ... models for complex ecological risk assessments, Hum Ecol Risk Assess., 5, 375–396 Suter, G.W., II 1999b A framework for assessment of ecological risks from multiple activities Hum Ecol Risk Assess., ... REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION A regional ecological risk assessment was conducted for the Mountain River catchment in Tasmania, Australia The relative risk model (RRM)...

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... REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION The Parque Estadual Turístico Alto Ribeira (PETAR) is a natural reserve in southeastern Brazil that was selected for an ecological risk assessment ... IN A RAIN FOREST RESERVE 189 50 Low risk Risk Score High risk 100 Particles Metals Nutrients Pesticides Pc la Pg Bc Bd Bb Ic Pf Pa Pe lb Pd Ba Pb Subarea 150 Low risk Risk Score High risk 300 ... rain forest: composition, ecology, and conservation, Biotropica, 32, 882–893 U.S Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) 1998 Guidelines for ecological risk assessment, EPA/630/R-95/002F, Risk Assessment...

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... USING THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL 197 PART I: USING THE RELATIVE RISK MODEL FOR A REGIONAL-SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE SQUALICUM CREEK WATERSHED Introduction Ecological risk assessment (EcoRA) ... 10.9 in Appendix A) Risk Region Risk Scores Risk region risk scores represent the relative risks to each risk region Each risk region risk score is a summation of all the risk scores contributing ... stressor risk assessment of the Codorus Creek watershed applying the relative risk model, Hum Ecol Risk Assess., 8, 405 Thomas, J.F et al 2001 Confirmation of a Relative Risk Model ecological risk assessment...

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... structures, and shipping activities ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT 1999 Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment The 1999 screening-level ecological risk assessment conducted for WDNR specifically focused ... 2004 3:03 PM 242 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Table 11.1 Alternative Assessment Endpoints and Criteria Used for Selection Assessment Endpoints Reasons for Selection Eelgrass (Zostera ... starvation and sedimentation Assessment Endpoints The assessment endpoints selected by WDNR for the initial risk assessment with input from the other stakeholders for the retrospective and prospective...

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... modified for a retrospective assessment incorporating Monte Carlo analysis to describe uncertainty RELATIVE RISK MODEL AND THE WOE APPROACH The RRM was developed during our ecological risk assessment ... of risks with the sources of risk clearly identified Spatially Explicit Sources and habitats are specifically included in the risk assessment, making it spatially explicit Risks can be defined for ... effects on aquatic systems, Hum Ecol Risk Assess., 9, 17–35 Landis, W.G and McLaughlin, J.F 2000 Design criteria and derivation of indicators for ecological position, direction and risk, Environ...

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