stressor wide area ecological risk assessment

... 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 ... apply to ecological assessments Part of the problem is simply the complexity of ecological risks relative to human health risks, discussed above It is difficult to define a “bright line” risk level...

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... human health risk assessment are abundant and should be applied to mechanistic models of wildlife exposure 3.2 EXPOSURE TO CONTAMINANTS IN SURFACE WATER In most cases, ecological risk assessments ... 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: concentrations ... contaminated habitat areas Al = area (ha) of a distinct contaminated habitat area Cijkl = concentration of contaminant (j) in type (k) of medium (i) from the lth area (mg/kg or mg/l) These areas should...

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... derive environmental criteria and has been recommended as a standard ecological risk assessment technique (Suter, 1993a; Aquatic Risk Assessment and Mitigation Dialog Group, 1994; Parkhurst et al., ... Uncertainty factors are widely used for the development of toxicity values for human health risk assessment (Dourson and Stara, 1983) and have also been applied for wildlife risk assessment (e.g., ... of organisms, populations, or communities in contaminated areas 4.1 SINGLE-CHEMICAL OR SINGLE-MATERIAL TOXICITY TESTS In ecological risk assessments for contaminated sites, single-chemical or singlematerial...

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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 ... represent the area to be assessed, including directly contaminated areas, indirectly contaminated areas, and indirectly affected areas In some cases the most contaminated or most susceptible areas were ... peer review For consistency with other risk characterizations: • Describe how the risks posed by one set of stressors compare with the risks posed by a similar stressor( s) or similar environmental...

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... level of either ecological risk that is equivalent to a 10-6 human cancer risk Moreover, the greater conservatism in health risk assessments compared with typical ecological risk assessments makes ... Intermediate ecological risk • Ecological risk of magnitude between de minimis and de manifestis risk De minimis ecological risk • Mild, transient, or localized effect(s) on one or more ecological ... more important dimension of ecological risk in remedial assessments than in assessments of most purely toxicological risks 9.1.5 RISK CHARACTERIZATION As in other risk characterizations (Chapter...

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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 ... Develop RGO using risk assessment If the site is considerably different from the assumptions used in the derivation of PRGs, risk assessment is recommended More specifically, risk assessment is recommended: ... factored into the final ecological remedial goals (e.g., CCME, 1996b) The ecological risk assessor’s role is to provide the risk manager with remedial goal options based on ecological risks However, the...

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... concern in fish from the areas where risks had been significant The assessment would document the trends in contaminant levels and associated risks over time and would identify when risks dropped below ... RI/FS has been performed, the ecological risk assessments in those documents should provide a more-than-adequate basis for a preassessment screen Another part of the preassessment process is notification ... efficiency The relationship of NRDA to risk assessment in general is unclear The NRDA procedure was published in 1986, the same year as the first ecological risk assessment framework (Barnthouse and...

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... relevant to the assessment risk characterization: A phase of ecological risk assessment that integrates the exposure and stressor response profiles to evaluate the likelihood of adverse ecological ... and ecological risk assessment Risk Anal 14:477–481 Burmaster, D E and D A Hull 1997 Using lognormal distributions and lognormal probability plots in probabilistic risk assessments Hum Ecol Risk ... Carlo Hum Ecol Risk Assess 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...

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... 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 ... REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT measured/ estimated STRESSOR 13 measured/ estimated RESPONSE RECEPTOR exposure effect (a) Traditional Risk Assessment Components SOURCES of STRESSORS Locations of Multiple Stressors ... 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)...

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... SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Table 3.3 Washington Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) Decisions Relative to Ecological Risk Assessment The Kinds of Decisions to which WDNR May Apply Risk Assessment ... nearby geographic areas (Table 3.3) These pending decisions (about stressors) indicated that WDNR risk assessments are geographically based, across wide areas, with multiple stressors (and multiple ... REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION This chapter explores the important link between the regional (ecological) risk assessment (RRA) process and the decisions these assessments...

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... subtidal area — narrow shallow subtidal area — no shallow subtidal areas — extensive deep subtidal areas — moderate deep subtidal areas Open water — limited deep subtidal areas — no deep subtidal areas ... 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, ... September 22, 2004 2:45 PM 62 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Table 4.1 Subareas, Sources, and Habitats Defined for the Port Valdez Ranking Risk Assessment (continued) Vessel Traffic Small...

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... 2004 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, ... 114 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Risk Confirmation By comparing standard measures of risk with the risk scores appropriately filtered for effects, the magnitude of stressors represented ... AM 98 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Table 5.2 Sources of Stressors and Examples of Stressors Released Source of Stressors Occurrence in and Upstream of Project Area Forestry About...

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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 ... risk region Relative ecological ranks were summarized by the sum of relative ranks per stressor, sum of relative ranks per habitat, sum of relative risks per endpoint, and relative risk per risk ... September 22, 2004 10:18 AM 126 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Table 6.2 The CCW EcoRA Risk Region and Sampling Site Descriptions Risk Region Area Description Landuse Fisheries Type Biological...

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... 10:18 AM 158 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Moore, D.R.J 2001 The Anna Karenina principle applied to ecological risk assessments of multiple stressors, Hum Ecol Risk Assess., 7, 231–237 ... distinct outcomes in ecological risk assessment, Environ Toxicol Chem., 17, 1640–1649 Thomas, J.F 2001 Confirmation of a Relative Risk Model Ecological Risk Assessment of Multiple Stressors Using Multivariate ... future trends in risk A recent issue of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (April 2001) featured a Debate and Commentary section on regionalscale ecological assessment of cumulative risks in which...

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... 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 ... calculating risk are: • Sum of stressors in risk region = Σstressors • Sum of potential stressor exposure in risk region = Σ (stressor × habitat) for interactions where an exposure arrow indicates the stressor ... 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.,...

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... 9.6 REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Environmentally protected reserves, quilombo territories and limits of the 14 subareas in the risk assessment The same type of stressor can be released ... 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 Particles Metals ... 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...

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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) ... SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT Risk Estimation Results .207 Stressor Sources 207 Stressors 207 Habitats .207 Endpoints 209 Risk Regions ... the relative risks contributed by each of the stressors Each stressor risk score is a summation of all the risk scores contributed by the particular stressor in the entire study area (Equation...

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... Level Ecological Risk Assessment The 1999 screening-level ecological risk assessment conducted for WDNR specifically focused on identifying and evaluating the natural and anthropogenic factors or stressors ... the CP area These additional assessment endpoints in combination with the results of the CP regional-scale ecological risk assessment will help to ensure responsible management of the ecological ... THE USE OF REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT 243 Hart Hayes, E and Landis, W.G 2004 Regional ecological risk assessment of a nearshore marine environment: Cherry Point, WA Hum Ecol Risk Assess., 10, 299–325...

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... 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 Port ... providing a map 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 ... studies include examples of prospective risk assessments where future impacts are calculated In a retrospective risk assessment the goal is to identify stressors and the sources that have contributed...

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... contribution of risk from sources, risk in habitats, and risk to assessment endpoints can be calculated in a region The ultimate difference between an RRM risk assessment and traditional risk assessments ... Recent trends in ecological risk assessment have shifted toward assessing risk from multiple stressors at a regional scale (Cook et al 1999; Cormier et al 2000) Such regional-scale risk assessments ... REGIONAL SCALE ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT DISCUSSION The need to characterize risk at regional scales introduces opportunities and challenges to ecological risk assessors Multiple sources, stressors,...

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