Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission Annual Report 2014 Table of Contents

To the President and Governors 2 Chairman’s Message 3 A Collaborative Approach to Clean Water 5 ORSANCO: Working Together to Protect the and its Uses 7 Working Together to Protect Drinking Water 9 Working Together to Protect Aquatic Life 13 Working Together to Protect Recreational Use 17 Working Together to Investigate Current Water Quality Issues 19 Nutrient Reduction Activities 19 Mercury Studies 20 Working Together to Teach and Reach the Public 21 2014 Resources Overview 24 ORSANCO Staff 25 Members of the Commission 26

1 To The President and Governors*

The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) is an interstate water pollution control agency created in 1948 by the State of Illinois, the State of Indiana, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the State of , the State of Ohio, the Commonwealth of , the Commonwealth of , and the State of with approval of the Congress of the . The Commissioners of ORSANCO respectfully submit the following fiscal report of activities for 2014 to:

The Honorable Pat Quinn The Honorable Mike Pence Governor of Illinois Governor of Indiana

The Honorable Steven L. Beshear The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of Kentucky Governor of New York

The Honorable John R. Kasich The Honorable Tom Corbett Governor of Ohio Governor of Pennsylvania

The Honorable Terry McAuliffe The Honorable Earl Ray Tomblin Governor of Virginia Governor of West Virginia and

The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States

*As of June 30, 2014 2 Chairman’s Message

The roots of ORSANCO to protect the Ohio work with less financial assistance. ORSANCO River were not cultivated from a single state, has also faced economic challenges and has person, or place within the watershed, but as a continued to produce critically important studies revolutionary agency set up to represent multiple and information without sacrificing the programs states, people, and waters of these states. that are necessary to maintain and continue water quality improvement for its member Recognition that the member states must work states. This close working relationship with together along with multiple agencies with a the states is the foundation of the Commission, similar mission creates better science and better and ORSANCO has continued to build decisions. ORSANCO works with this scientific innovative partnerships with many agencies and knowledge and commitment to improve water organizations to help them in their mission for quality. Sound science is at the core of the clean water. ORSANCO, our member states, Commission, and our member states and water and our many partners build and thrive on quality agencies and organizations strengthen the foundation that our best work is a result of this science by working together. The Ohio River working together in many places and with many runs through all who live within the watershed, people, bringing us all together… where the and it is this river that brings us together as a river runs through it. collaborative whole to generate data to help preserve and maintain water quality for future decisions and for people both now and for generations to come. Toby Frevert, Chairman In times of economic instability, water quality organizations who strive to continue to improve water quality face an important challenge of maintaining and continuing their quality of

3 “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

(Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.)

4 A Collaborative Approach to Clean Water The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission A Team Effort: ORSANCO’s Water Users (ORSANCO) was established in 1948 to protect Advisory Committee the water quality of the Ohio River when the The Water Users Advisory Committee (WUAC) Governors and appointed Commissioners of eight is comprised primarily of drinking water utility states in the Ohio River Basin – Illinois, Indiana, managers. The committee directly advises the Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Commission on ways to ensure the Ohio River and West Virginia – signed into law the Ohio River continues to serve as an excellent source of drinking Valley Water Sanitation Compact. ORSANCO water to more than 5 million people. Members of was created, not from a single state, person, or the WUAC provide in-kind services for ORSANCO’s place within the basin, but as an innovative agency Organics Detection System (ODS) by providing day- established to protect the water quality for multiple to-day operation and maintenance of the monitoring states and their people. This multi-state agency instrumentation. The ODS and the committee works with local, regional and national groups, members’ analytical teams demonstrated their value agencies, and organizations to demonstrate that a in January 2014 during the Elk River Spill event. cooperative approach to water quality management greatly improves the scientific basis for management Ten thousand gallons of an industrial chemical, decisions. 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM), spilled into the Elk River in Charleston, WV, making its ORSANCO works through an extensive network way to the River and on to the Ohio of committees to advise the Commission on its River. Through the efforts of the WUAC members, programs, matters of public interest, and water ORSANCO staff, and the newly renovated ODS, quality management needs. These committees the MCHM contaminant plume was successfully are a collaboration of water quality professionals monitored as it moved downstream. Time of travel and experts who advise and assist ORSANCO estimates were provided to downstream utilities, in developing scientific approaches for technical providing them adequate time to prepare and issues. The committees work cooperatively with the implement appropriate treatment measures. Due to Commission to identify Ohio River water quality the combined efforts of the drinking water utilities management needs and other issues. Committee and the ODS, no Ohio River drinking water utilities members are appointed by the Chairman of the were compromised during this event. Commission. In January 2014, one of these committees, the Water Users Advisory Committee, The committee also provides input on ORSANCO’s proved invaluable in tracking an industrial chemical Pollution Control Standards from the viewpoint of spill discharged to the Elk River in Charleston, WV, protecting the Ohio River as a source of drinking and subsequently to the Ohio River. Their efforts water. Most recently, the committee provided were successful in protecting downstream drinking valuable assistance and input on the development water intakes to ensure drinking water quality for and adoption of the Commission’s stream criterion 1.5 million people in the Ohio River Valley. for total dissolved solids.

< ORSANCO staff members Travis Luncan and Stacey Cochran present at the National Water Quality Monitoring Conference.

> L to R: Jerry Schulte, ORSANCO’s Manager of External Relations; U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie; Kentucky Commissioner Ron Lovan; and ORSANCO’s Executive Director, Peter Tennant.

5 Special Events staff to participate and provided an Several events in 2014 provided opportunity to showcase the extent of special recognition of the efforts of the monitoring activities carried out by the Commission and its many partners: Commission, its member states, and its other collaborators in the Ohio- Ohio River Basin Congressional Kentucky-Indiana area. Caucus Meetings The Ohio River Basin Congressional River Sweep 25 Event In May 2014, ORSANCO and the Peter Tennant, ORSANCO’s Executive Caucus was formed in 2009 to address Director, is recognized for his role in critical water-oriented issues within the Foundation for Ohio River Education bringing the NQWMC to Cincinnati. Basin. The major goal of the Caucus hosted River Sweep 25 to celebrate the is to ensure support from Congress sponsors, supporters, and volunteers and the Administration for programs who have made River Sweep and Ohio and projects essential to and within River education programs a success for the watershed. ORSANCO works with the last 25 years. The event was held Congressional staff to provide briefings at the Behringer-Crawford Museum to the Caucus on emerging issues. in Covington, KY, home to a variety In January 2014, a briefing was held of exhibits focused on local history on efforts to improve the understanding and the Ohio River. River Sweep 25 of how much water is used in the Ohio also featured live music from Jake River Basin and in the entire United Speed and the Freddies, a local folk States. The briefing took place several and country blues band famous for days after the Elk River chemical their “Ohio River Waltz”. Over the release; a brief presentation of the years, the band has held several effects of the release and how special music festivals to raise money for River Sweep. The event honored both Jake Jake Speed and the Freddies perform funding by Congress of ORSANCO’s at the River Sweep 25 event. Organics Detection System enabled for his support of River Sweep, as well protection of downstream water as Jeanne Ison, ORSANCO’s retired supplies was added to the program. Public Information Manager, who ORSANCO’s U. S. Congressman Thomas Massie founded and organized River Sweep Active Advisory (R-KY), a new member of the Caucus, for 24 years! visited ORSANCO headquarters, Committees meeting with Commissioners and staff, The Success learning about the Commission and its Story: A Life Below the programs, the Ohio River, and many Waterline Event contemporary water-related issues. In the 1960s, the Kanawha River in Congressman Massie represents West Virginia was one of the most Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, polluted rivers in the Ohio River which extends along the Ohio River Basin. Dissolved oxygen levels fell from Ashland, KY to Louisville, KY, a to zero in June of most years, and distance of approximately 276 river stayed there until October. Thanks miles. to the efforts of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection 9th National Water Quality (WVDEP) working with industries and Monitoring Conference municipalities on the river, oxygen The 9th biennial National Water levels are now sufficient to support a Quality Monitoring Conference thriving population of sport fish, and (NWQMC) was held in Cincinnati the river is a recreational asset to the the week of April 28, 2014. This region. In October 2013, ORSANCO conference has become the premier biologists collected fish from the national gathering of water quality Kanawha River and displayed them in monitoring personnel, including ORSANCO’s Life Below the Waterline agency, academic, private, and citizen mobile aquarium in Charleston, WV. monitoring groups and individuals. The aquarium displayed fish in a park The 2014 conference attracted about in downtown Charleston so that the 650 individuals from 49 states and public could view the many fish species several countries. The Cincinnati that now inhabit the Kanawha River. location allowed many ORSANCO 6 ORSANCO: Working Together to Protect the Ohio River and its Uses

Citizens in the Ohio River Basin use the river surrounding water body. This extension will allow in various ways, and ORSANCO must protect for a re-evaluation of the mixing zone prohibition these uses and help improve water quality for the for the Ohio River. Two webinars and a public citizens of the Ohio River Valley. The Ohio River hearing were held to gather public comments. is a source of drinking water for over 5 million More than 50 individual public comments were people, a major transportation route for and received on this issue; most were opposed to other energy products, and a natural resource for the extension and several were in favor of the many plants and animals. ORSANCO works with revision. many state and local agencies and organizations to provide safe drinking water, protect aquatic The Commission is also currently undertaking a life, and guide citizens with decisions about fish new review of its Pollution Control Standards for consumption and recreational activities in and Discharges to the Ohio River. The Commission around the river. ORSANCO’s Pollution Control initially identified several topics for evaluation Standards outline these specific uses for the Ohio including the mixing zone prohibition and criteria River and establish certain criteria to ensure that for mercury, total dissolved solids (TDS), E. coli, the river is capable of supporting these uses. temperature, ammonia, and nutrients. Two webinars were held for the public, and comments Pollution Control Standards were received from 35 entities. The Commission The Commission revised its Pollution Control will be developing specific proposals on several Standards for Discharges to the Ohio River in of these issues in 2014-2015. 2013. This revision extended the date of the prohibition on mixing zones for bioaccumulative In 2014, ORSANCO also received a mixing chemicals of concern to October 2015. A mixing zone prohibition variance request to its Pollution zone is an area where the wastewater discharged Control Standards. A variance is a temporary from a permitted facility enters and mixes with the modification of ORSANCO’s Pollution Control 7 Standards granted to a specific discharger whose The National Water Quality request has been subject to extensive review by Inventory Report to Congress: the Commission. ORSANCO will only consider 305(b) Report a variance when there are no other reasonable In 2014, the Commission approved its Assessment alternatives available to a discharger to meet of Ohio River Water Quality Conditions. This the requirements of the Commission’s Pollution report contains ORSANCO’s water quality Control Standards. Variances are allowed for a assessment for the attainment of the beneficial maximum five-year period. During that period, uses of the Ohio River, including aquatic life, the discharger must develop a pollution reduction public water supply, contact recreation, and fish plan to eventually meet all the requirements of the consumption. The entire Ohio River was classified Pollution Control Standards. as fully attaining the aquatic life and public water supply uses. Two-thirds of the river was Broad Scan for Unmonitored designated as impaired for contact recreational Pollutants use, and the entire river was designated as In 2014, ORSANCO completed a survey of impaired for fish consumption due to levels of pollutants not included in routine monitoring polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxin. programs by analyzing samples for 113 A new assessment methodology based on the pollutants with water quality criteria. Sampling U.S. EPA’s recommendation was employed to was conducted in high and low flow conditions evaluate the fish consumption use for mercury. at three upper, middle, and lower river segments Results indicated that mercury was not a cause of of the Ohio River. Results of that study show impairment for fish consumption. no detections of the previously unmonitored pollutants and do not indicate a need for additional parameters in routine monitoring programs. 8 The Ohio River and its tributaries are geared toward some form Protection Program initiatives provide millions of people in the of water quality communication. include communication of water Ohio River Basin with a source of Through this program, a wide quality conditions; activities that drinking water for many different range of information sources are could affect, influence, or otherwise activities including washing, accessed regarding activities on threaten water quality conditions; cooking, cleaning, and countless or near the Ohio River and in and interstate communication other daily uses. The water goes the Ohio River Basin that have between state and federal agency through traditional and enhanced the potential to impact water personnel. With this program, a treatment processes prior to use; quality for drinking water utilities. comprehensive understanding of however, ORSANCO monitors river Drinking water utilities use this activities, procedures, personnel, water quality closely to assure high information in conjunction with agencies, and utilities coalesce to quality source water for the people their own monitoring efforts to provide the maximum coordinated in the Ohio River Basin. help understand the water quality protection for Ohio River drinking conditions of the river and develop water utilities and the 5 million SOURCE WATER PROTECTION appropriate treatment strategies consumers who rely on them daily ORSANCO’s Source Water when needed. The program also for their drinking water. Protection Program serves to serves as a forum for meetings and protect Ohio River drinking discussions with state and federal Emergency Response water utilities and consumers agency personnel regarding source Preparedness and Spill Tracking through the implementation of water protection, water quality ORSANCO’s Emergency Response a variety of program-specific management, and emergency Preparedness and Spill Tracking activities. Most of the activities response activities. Source Water programs continue to demonstrate 9 Working Together to Protect Drinking Water

their value during actual spill cooperation and coordination to On January 9, 2014, a release events. The Emergency Response protect the resource and drinking of MCHM from a chemical Preparedness program serves to water interests. storage facility in Charleston, WV, bring together state and federal contaminated the Elk River and emergency response and water Organics Detection System the drinking water supply for the quality agency personnel who will Another key component to the Kanawha Valley Water Treatment work together during spill events Source Water Protection Program plant that serves all or parts of 9 or other incidents that may impact is the Commission’s Organics counties surrounding Charleston, the water quality of the Ohio Detection System (ODS). A WV. Over a quarter of a million River. Due to the interstate nature premier system internationally, this people were affected for multiple of the Ohio River, developing program has been the front line days due to this event. a better understanding of the water quality sentinel for Ohio personnel, authorities, capabilities, River water quality and Ohio The first agency on the scene of and limitations of each agency is River drinking water utilities since the spill was the West Virginia critical to coordination of response 1978. The location of the pollution Department of Environmental activities during actual spill events. incident responsible for the Protection (WVDEP), who Through this program, boundaries creation of the ODS, the Kanawha responded to citizen complaints (as they exist between states River in Charleston, WV, has the of a powerful sweet smell in their and federal agencies the length unfortunate distinction of being drinking water. WVDEP reported of the Ohio River) are softened, featured again in 2014, when the spill to the National Response promoting and supporting ORSANCO responded to the Center (NRC), who issued a better, faster, and more efficient Elk River Spill event. continued 10 formal alert to ORSANCO and other agencies. The MCHM traveled downstream 58 miles from the spill site to the Ohio River. Once in the Ohio, it threatened the water resource relied upon by more than 1.5 million people. The ODS was ready for the challenge, and upgrades made to ODS instrumentation proved essential to the detection and identification of the MCHM. The substance is an industrial, coal-cleaning chemical, and little is known about its affects to human health after exposure.

The first Ohio River drinking water utility Cincinnati’s Drinking Water Intake on the Ohio River to be effected by the spill was West Virginia American Water’s (WVAW) Huntington Drinking water plant in Huntington, WV, which is part of the ODS. ORSANCO’s ODS staff worked with WVAW’s Huntington water staff to develop a detection methodology and calibration curve that provided accurate concentration data for the MCHM plume as it approached and passed by their intake. Downstream utilities were notified of the plume’s location and estimated concentration. Time of travel projections were developed by ORSANCO and distributed to downstream utilities along with treatment information provided from upstream utilities. The plume was tracked Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam in Gallipolis Ferry, WV by the ODS for over 400 Ohio River miles.

The coalescence of ORSANCO’s various programs, including the Source Water Protection Program, the Emergency Response Preparedness Program, the Spill Tracking and Notification Program, the Water Users Advisory Committee, and the ODS culminated in a well-coordinated, exceptional spill response effort. Due to the efforts of many individuals, no Ohio River utilities were compromised by the MCHM contaminant plume.

11 Transporting potable water from an Ohio River drinking water utility ODS MVP: Glenn Anderson (1957-2014) ORSANCO could not operate its ODS program without its many partners and people who work behind the scenes in its various locations along the river. One such invaluable member of the ODS team was Glenn Anderson from Pennsylvania American Water Company (PAWC). Glenn was employed by PAWC as a chemist the method protocol. He was the scientific basis for water quality at the Hays Mine drinking water meticulous and exacting when it management decisions. A study treatment facility in Pittsburgh, PA came to preparing standards for to characterize dissolved solids for more than 29 years. calibration curves, and the data in the Ohio River and selected he generated was always of the tributaries is the most recent Soon after his employment at highest quality. example of the value provided by PAWC, Glenn became familiar with this collaborative initiative. This purge and trap technology and Glenn put others first, and his project was a response to the lack the gas chromatograph (GC) and children and grandchildren were of existing total dissolved solids became one of the most respected very precious to him. He enjoyed (TDS) data that was needed to analysts within ORSANCO’s ODS hunting, camping, archery, fishing, evaluate Ohio River conditions system. He was able to keep the and dartball. He was also a relative to the TDS ambient water same GC system running for over Pittsburgh fan to the core, from quality standard adopted by the 19 years! Years later, PAWC took the Steelers and the Penguins to Commission in 2011. advantage of more sophisticated the Pirates. The sadness in his technologies and purchased a passing in spring 2014 reflects ORSANCO partnered with GC/MS (gas chromatograph/ our gratitude in the many years of municipal water utilities and mass spectrometer) unit to identify service and dedication that Glenn industries with surface water volatile organic substances in Ohio gave to the ODS program. He is intakes to conduct a year-long River water samples. Once again, missed and fondly remembered. monitoring effort involving weekly Glenn took on the challenge and sample collection at 11 Ohio mastered the art of operating a TDS Bromide Study River and 5 tributary locations. highly complex piece of analytical The Ohio River Users Program is a Samples were analyzed for TDS instrumentation. His advice and prime example of how ORSANCO and 14 individual ion constituents. expertise were relied upon in engages stakeholders to improve Laboratory results indicate that upgrading ORSANCO’s ODS understanding of the Ohio River all samples collected from the program, and he was the “go-to through collaboration. The need Ohio River were well below the guy” when other ODS operators for strong scientific data is the 500 mg/L standard. Sulfate needed assistance in mastering the driving force behind this innovative and bicarbonate were the most GC and GC/MS technologies. program. The program’s advisory abundant ions detected, followed committee brings together by calcium, chloride, and sodium. Glenn was a highly gifted representatives from a diverse The Commission approved the analytical chemist with a desire group of industries that rely on final report in February 2014 and for perfection, but operating the the river to conduct their business, published the complete results on ODS for ORSANCO was only one along with water and wastewater ORSANCO’s website at of the roles he had at PAWC. In utilities, to identify and support www.orsanco.org. everything he did, Glenn followed relevant projects that will improve 12 Working Together to Protect Aquatic Life

ORSANCO’s biologists work to and protecting the aquatic life that environmental data sampled ensure that the Ohio River is depends on the integrity of the from the various navigational capable of maintaining healthy habitat and waters in the Ohio pools of the Ohio River. In 2003, populations of fish and aquatic River Basin. ORSANCO developed the Ohio life. They also partner with many River Fish Index, which was different agencies to generate Ohio River Fish Index subsequently modified in 2008 data, complete projects, and In 1993, ORSANCO developed to become the mORFIn (modified attain their goals of maintaining and implemented an assessment Ohio River Fish Index). Using the a healthy Ohio River watershed technique to compare fish and collected data, the index assigns

13 Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership The Ohio River Basin Fish Habitat Partnership (ORBFHP) is one of 19 current officially recognized working units of the National Ohio River Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) Macroinvertebrate which aims to protect, restore, Index and enhance the nation’s fish ORSANCO biologists and aquatic communities through have collaborated extensively partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation. ORSANCO is one with outside agencies of a diverse group of entities on the development of a that includes state, regional, macroinvertebrate (macro) and federal agencies, non- index since 2004. In 2007, governmental organizations, ORSANCO was awarded a U.S. and universities that helped form scores to rate the relative condition EPA Environmental Monitoring the ORBFHP and help steer its of fish communities among the and Assessment Program (EMAP) activities today. In addition to pools. Each year, ORSANCO cooperative grant to continue work serving as Steering Committee biological crews collect data from on the development of the index. chair, ORSANCO staff members up to four navigational pools The grant allowed for additional have also participated as Science using a random, probability-based environmental data (e.g. water Committee chairs, helping to design that selects 15 sampling quality, sediment quality, nutrient guide the partnership through locations within each of the pools. levels) to be collected alongside a collaborative effort with other Fish are captured, identified, normal macro samples. With FHPs across the Midwest to measured, and inspected prior to these data, ORSANCO was able develop data-driven, basin-wide release. The data obtained are to better identify and classify the aquatic habitat assessments that converted into multiple metrics environmental stressors affecting led to the identification of priority (e.g. diversity, abundance, macro assemblages in the Ohio action areas. It was this effort, pollution tolerance, etc.) that are River; an essential first step in in part, that helped the ORBFHP become the only FHP in the country added together for each site and developing a biological index. to be evaluated at the highest compared to previous results in After the EMAP co-op concluded, level (Level 3) in a new funding order to calculate the mORFIn the Ohio River Macroinvertebrate allocation strategy employed score values. Index (ORMIn) was created and by the NFHP. This evaluation tested in ORSANCO’s annual ORSANCO biological crews led to three times the resources assessed Dashields, Hannibal, pool assessments. In addition, being directed to the Ohio River RC Byrd, and Smithland pools the Louisville District of the U.S. Basin for aquatic habitat and in 2013 and are sampling Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) water quality improvements in Belleville, Markland, McAlpine, contributed funds allowing 2014 than in any previous year. and Olmsted/Open Water pools ORSANCO to continue collecting ORSANCO and the ORBFHP are in 2014. All four pools sampled the essential environmental also currently collaborating with in 2013 were found to be in data from two pools within their other Midwest FHPs and the U.S. “good” condition. Over the years, jurisdiction. These data have given Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) the various pools have generally ORSANCO the opportunity to test to develop a web-based habitat ranked from “fair” to “very good.” and validate the newly developed improvement application that To date, no pools have ranked as ORMIn before its incorporation in will consist of three tools to aid “poor” or “very poor.” annual assessments. managers in directing resources. continued 14 When completed, users will be able to: 1) visualize current landscape conditions within the entire basin; 2) rank watersheds based on a large suite of anthropogenic or natural landscape factors; and 3) estimate future consequences to aquatic habitats and in-stream variables due to changes in landscape conditions.

National Rivers and Streams Assessment The National Rivers and Streams Assessment (NRSA) is one of four National Aquatic Resource Surveys that are probability- based studies designed to provide nationally consistent and scientifically-defensible assessments of our nation’s waters that can be used to define current conditions, identify major impacts, and track changes in condition over time. Rivers, streams, coastal waters, wetlands, lakes, and reservoirs across the country are rigorously surveyed every five years through a collaborative process involving the U.S. EPA, state, regional, and tribal water quality agencies, and many other organizations. The NRSA is a two-year survey that developed from the 2004 Wadeable Streams Assessment and the 2005- 2006 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program - Great River Ecosystems survey. ORSANCO was invited by the U.S. EPA and several member states to participate in the first NRSA survey period in 2008-2009, sampling boatable sites on the main stem of the Ohio River and throughout Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Indiana. U.S. EPA and three states again invited ORSANCO to participate in the 2013-2014 survey. Between the two years, ORSANCO staff and contractual biologists will sample 42 sites throughout Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio. During the 2013 field season of May to September, crews successfully completed sampling at 27 of these events and spent much of the off-season completing data submission and quality assurance protocols associated with the program and preparing for the final 15 events.

Ohio River Invasive Species Control The Ohio River has been subject to invasions from exotic aquatic species since the mid to late 1800’s when common carp were first encountered in the basin. Since that time, numerous other aquatic animals and plants have made their way into the river. In addition to common carp, the most notable animals to become established in the Ohio River include zebra mussels, Asiatic clams, rusty crayfish, striped bass and their hybrids, white perch, goldfish, and grass carp. More recently (since the late 1990’s), two new carp species, bighead carp and silver carp, and a submerged aquatic plant, hydrilla, have all been currently experiencing population explosions in the river at the expense of native species.

15 Bighead and Silver Carp ensuring the carp do not enter the In addition to monitoring, Although found in the river as early via existing connections several state agencies have been as 1983, bighead and silver carp between the Great Lakes Basin sponsoring and encouraging did not start becoming nuisance and the Ohio River Basin. In practices to remove bighead and species until the late 1990’s. 2013, USFWS assisted West silver carp from state waters, Introduced into Arkansas from Virginia Department of Natural including the Ohio River and its China, both species migrated up Resources (WVDNR) and Kentucky direct tributaries. In the spring of the Mississippi River and quickly Department of Fish and Wildlife 2013, KYDFWR hosted the first became established in the lower Resources (KYDFWR) to place 58 commercial fishing event which Ohio River. They are currently stationary receivers between Willow successfully removed 42 tons of spreading upstream with the Island and Meldahl Locks and Dam the two carp species from Barkley leading edges of their populations to track the movements of 24 carp and Kentucky lakes. Other states believed to be just upstream of implanted with transmitters. In such as Indiana are encouraging Cincinnati. While much federal addition, the effort has included more people to eat silver carp as attention has been directed towards the collection of 200 water samples a means of population control. keeping the species from reaching from Pittsburgh, PA to Wheeling, ORSANCO biologists have been the Great Lakes, efforts to reduce WV that were tested for carp involved in carp monitoring and populations in the Ohio River have DNA. Of these samples, two tested removal efforts, participating in been primarily state-driven. U.S. positive. In a similar study, several workshops and meetings and Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) agencies collaborated to test 222 reporting occurrences of the two has been working with several water samples from the Muskingum species observed during routine state agencies to track the leading River in Ohio and detected genetic sampling. edge of the invasion, but most of material from bighead carp in 10 of their resources are directed towards them.

Hydrilla ORSANCO biologists have also played a role remote sensing techniques using satellite in working with other agencies to develop imagery to detect dense beds of submerged monitoring and eradication plans for the invasive aquatic vegetation (presumably hydrilla) on the submerged plant hydrilla. This nuisance species shorelines of the river. ORSANCO biologists was first observed in the upper sections of the also attended an information exchange Ohio River in the mid-2000’s and has spread workshop on methods to eradicate the plant upstream into the Monongahela River and hosted by ORBFHP and the Appalachian Ohio downstream to below Greenup Locks and Dam, Weed Control Partnership. The workshop was covering both shorelines in extremely dense part of a larger educational effort funded by mats. ORSANCO biologists worked closely with the ORBFHP and coordinated by the Central the ORBFHP and researchers from Northwest Hardwoods Invasive Plant Network. Missouri State University to develop

16 Working Together to Protect Recreational Use

ORSANCO monitors water quality for the safety of decisions about recreating on the Ohio River. MSD people who live in the Ohio River watershed during developed Recr8OhioRiver, a website and free the spring, summer, and fall when people engage in wireless app, to help predict E. coli counts in the Ohio recreational activities such as fishing, boating, skiing, River. Further information is available online at and swimming. www.recr8ohioriver.org.

Contact Recreation Bacteria Monitoring Bacteria levels are typically lower during the dry During the recreation season from April through summer months; however, all six urban areas can October, ORSANCO monitors bacteria levels in be unsuitable for contact recreation for some period six urban areas with combined sewer systems of the season, especially when there is frequent on the Ohio River. In addition to ORSANCO’s rainfall. Because of the unpredictability of the weather, environmental specialists, staff from local water plants ORSANCO has also provided monitoring for events and wastewater treatment plants sample these sites that bring numerous people in contact with the River. every week. The samples are then taken to a local laboratory to be analyzed for bacteria, including E.coli and fecal coliform. These bacteria indicate the presence of fecal contamination that can cause illness after swimming, jet-skiing, or participating in other activities with the potential for direct contact with the river. Bacteria monitoring data and updates regarding water quality are available to the public on ORSANCO’s website at www.orsanco. org. ORSANCO and Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky (SD1) also worked with Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) to develop the Recr8OhioRiver app to help the public make informed 17 In 2014, ORSANCO monitored for the following events:

• The Great Ohio River Swim (Cincinnati, OH) • Cincinnati Triathlon (OH) • Louisville Triathlon (KY) • Ironman Louisville (KY)

18 Working Together to Investigate Current Water Quality Issues

NUTRIENT REDUCTION ACTIVITIES agricultural best management practice (BMP) in one state to offset the permit limit in another state. The Pilot ORSANCO works cooperatively with various federal, Trading Plan 1.0 for the Ohio River Basin Interstate state, and local agencies to address nutrient pollution Water Quality Trading Project was signed within the Ohio River Basin and in other connecting on August 9, 2012 by the Commissioners of the watersheds. Excess nutrient pollution, including agricultural and permitting agencies of each of the nitrogen and phosphorus, leads to significant water states. The first trades under this agreement were quality problems such as harmful algal blooms, completed on March 11, 2014. hypoxia (low oxygen), and negative impacts on The project also funded 20 projects which resulted aquatic life and habitat. in the removal of nearly 50,000 lbs of nitrogen and Nutrient Trading Program phosphorus from the Ohio River Basin. The first The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is leading “credits” generated from these projects were sold in an effort to develop an interstate water quality trading March to Duke Energy, American Electric Power, and program for the Ohio River Basin. Partners in the Hoosier Energy. effort include American Farmland Trust, ORSANCO, In March, Peter Tennant, ORSANCO’s Executive the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Director, made a testimony to a subcommittee of the Ohio Farm Bureau. The project partners are facilitating United States House of Representatives regarding the “pilot trades” of nutrients between point and nonpoint role of nutrient trading to achieve Clean Water Act sources, marking the first trades in what could provide goals and the role of collaborative leadership and a model for dischargers to comply with emerging cooperation of many states, federal agencies, local requirements in many watersheds facing high nutrient utilities, and industries to make the program successful. levels. Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Water quality trading programs in the United States A hypoxic (low oxygen) zone develops in the Gulf of have been confined by political boundaries, while Mexico near the Mississippi River every summer. It is many pollutants, notably nutrients, are problems caused by excess nutrients coming from the Mississippi on a watershed scale. Some regions, such as the River that feed large algal blooms in the Gulf. These , have allowed cross-state trading; algal blooms are eventually decomposed by bacteria however, even the Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Trading which consume oxygen in the process. The resulting Program has limited participation due to conflicting area of low dissolved oxygen has been measured rules between the states surrounding the Bay. in excess of 20,000 km2 (about the size of the state of Massachusetts). As a member of the Mississippi The Ohio River Basin Trading Project is the first trading River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, project designed from its inception to be interstate in ORSANCO helps to set priorities for nutrient reductions nature. During the pilot phase of the project, three throughout the Mississippi River and Ohio River basins. states (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana) agreed to allow an

19 The Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed from the USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility Nutrient Task Force began as a partnership of and adapted a boat for sampling. Cross-sectional 5 federal agencies and 10 states bordering the composite sampling was conducted monthly for one Mississippi River. In 2001, the Task Force adopted an year. Water samples were collected for mercury action plan to guide the group in reducing nutrients and methylmercury in total and dissolved phases to the Gulf of Mexico. Although not a member of the and compared with fish tissue methylmercury Task Force at the time, ORSANCO convened the Ohio levels. Results were compared to assess the range River Sub Basin Steering Committee to help coordinate of mercury levels in the water that would protect the implementation of the Action Plan. Over the against the bioaccumulation of methylmercury in years, ORSANCO has worked to add the Ohio River fish tissue. Data indicate that long-term average Basin states to the Task Force; currently Indiana, Ohio, methylmercury concentrations in the Ohio River are and Kentucky are members. below the site-specific threshold for bioaccumulation of methylmercury for ORSANCO’s human health In a 2013 update to the Action Plan, ORSANCO was criterion in fish tissue. named a member of the Task Force and joined the states and federal agencies as a full partner. Discharge Survey In 2014, ORSANCO also completed an investigation As a partner, ORSANCO has worked with states in of mercury discharges from Flue Gas Desulfurization developing their nutrient reduction strategies. In the (FGD) systems at coal-fired power plants. FGD systems future, the Commission will help the states implement are used by power plants to remove sulfur dioxide, these strategies to meet the goals of the Action Plan selenium, mercury, and other volatile metals from and to restore the Gulf of Mexico. their flue gas emissions. This partnership with the Commission’s Power Industry Advisory Committee Wabash River Nutrient Monitoring (PIAC) granted ORSANCO direct access to sample Under a grant from the Indiana Department of waters of three American Electric Power (AEP) plants Environmental Management (IDEM), ORSANCO is and one Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corporation engaged in a study of the output from the Wabash (IKEC) plant. Contacts made at each facility guided River. The initial period of this project began in July ORSANCO staff to the restricted access sample points 2010 and ended in September 2011. The project was within the plant. Intake waters, FGD wastewaters, and reauthorized for an additional 3 years beginning in final effluent were sampled by clean techniques during January 2012. In 2014, ORSANCO completed the each event. The one-year project of quarterly sampling third year of sampling. The program is scheduled to indicated that, at those facilities, mercury removed by be completed in January 2015. FGD systems does not contribute to additional mercury loads in the final effluent discharged to the Ohio River. The data from this project is used by ORSANCO to evaluate the contribution of nutrients from the Wabash River to the Gulf of Mexico and to identify the causes of low dissolved oxygen on the Ohio River. The data is also used by IDEM to report to Congress on the health of the river.

MERCURY STUDIES

Bioaccumulation Study In 2014, ORSANCO completed a bioaccumulation study of aqueous methylmercury at a location near Hannibal Dam on the Ohio River. ORSANCO completed the study using sampling techniques learned from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). ORSANCO purchased highly specific equipment

20 Working Together to Teach and Reach the Public ORSANCO participates in river- • Cincinnati Earth Day Celebration litter from the Ohio River that first related events and activities (Cincinnati, OH) year. Now the Ohio River Sweep throughout the Ohio River Basin to • Louisville Water Company’s Water covers over 3,000 miles of shoreline, provide the public with educational Wows Event (Louisville, KY) including many tributaries. In 2014, opportunities to learn more about • Navy Bean Festival (Rising Sun, IN) approximately 17,000 people the Ohio River and the quality of this • Ohio Tobacco Festival (Ripley, OH) volunteered! great natural resource. • ORSANCO’s 207th Commission Meeting (Charleston, WV) Every year, ORSANCO distributes LIFE BELOW THE WATERLINE • Paddlefest Kids Outdoor Adventure River Sweep posters and T-shirts Expo (Cincinnati, OH) throughout the counties bordering ORSANCO’s mobile aquarium is • River Days Festival (New Richmond, the Ohio River to promote the event. displayed at selected educational OH) ORSANCO invites schools along events and festivals within the Ohio the Ohio River to participate in an River Watershed every year. The RIVER SWEEP environmental contest to provide 2,200-gallon mobile aquarium was artwork for the event. The 2014 designed to display Ohio River fish 2014 marked the 25th annual River River Sweep Poster Contest winner and demonstrate the biodiversity of Sweep. During the past 25 years, was Katie Long from Ripley, WV. aquatic life in the Ohio River and volunteers have collected thousands Katie’s artwork was printed on 1,200 improvements in water quality that are of bags of trash from the shorelines posters. The T-shirt design winner essential for these species to thrive in of the Ohio River every June. In was Jessica Dunham from Florence, the watershed. ORSANCO biologists addition to bringing volunteers KY. Jessica’s artwork was printed collect the fish onsite by electrofishing together and promoting awareness on 18,000 T-shirts. The posters and and return them to the river following of the Ohio River, a major goal of the T-shirts were distributed at each each event. event is to create a clean shoreline River Sweep location throughout the with greater appeal for recreation on watershed. In 2013-2014, the mobile aquarium the river. The first Ohio River Sweep, was displayed at the following Ohio held in 1989, covered 150 miles of In addition to all the volunteers River events: shoreline from Portsmouth, OH to who make the River Sweep events • American Electric Power Earth Day Cincinnati, OH and from Constance, possible, many state and local county Event (Conesville, OH) KY to Ashland, KY. Approximately coordinators are also an invaluable • Barbecue on the River (Paducah, KY) 1,000 volunteers collected trash and part of the River Sweep team.

21 RIVERWATCHERS Dave and his students monitor water quality from these sites monthly from The RiverWatchers volunteer September through April every year. monitoring program began as a pilot program in 1992 with only five Dave began his graduate work in monitoring groups and has since environmental science in the fall of grown to include school groups 1985 under the leadership of Dr. and citizens in six Ohio River Basin Stanley Zegorski in Erie, PA. Dave states. These groups are not only was inspired by “Dr. Z” with many concerned about water quality trips to Presque Isle Bay and was issues but are trained to conduct the Becky Ploucha, New Richmond, OH taught to have a deep understanding scientific tests to measure the health Becky Ploucha has been involved of aquatic ecology as it relates to of Ohio River water in their local water and to oneself…as human with River Sweep for over 15 years. community. Each group conducts stewards of this precious natural She grew up in New Richmond sampling throughout the year and resource. The trips to the lake and originally organized the River submits their results to ORSANCO. inspired many, including Dave, to Sweep event in her hometown. She The data is available on ORSANCO’s take similar trips with their own then coordinated the event for the website. students and inspired his deep entire county! This year, Becky had love and connection to the aquatic over 300 volunteers who collected 2013-2014 Participating environment and aquatic life. more than 850 bags of trash and RiverWatchers: debris from the riverbanks. They “My father, grandfather, and I built also collected tires and metal for • Clymer Central School (NY) our first pond while I was still in high recycling. Becky has represented • Warren County Conservation school back in 1978. It was 4-5 acre Clermont 20/20, a nonprofit group District (PA) farm pond, and I take my students to created to improve the quality of • Woodland Hills School District (PA) that same pond on our property. We built the pond with farm equipment • Williamstown High School (WV) life in Clermont County, OH. She and our own sweat; I was still a now represents the Valley View • Wahama High School (WV) junior in high school at the time. My Foundation, a nature preserve and • Leon Elementary School (WV) biology class was taught by a friend education facility located near the • Raceland High School (KY) of my family. His name was Kenneth of the East Fork and Little • New Richmond High School (OH) Sullivan, and being in his class was Miami tributaries of the Ohio River • Cincinnati State Career and like being home on the farm. Not in Milford, OH. a hard stretch, considering he had Technical College (OH) rented a little rental house from my • Ivy Tech Community College (IN) father and lived right next door to “I grew up in New Richmond and • Switzerland County High School (IN) my actual home on the farm. He have always had a connection with • Mater Dei High School (IN) has fished and hunted with us on the the Ohio River. It would take a same piece of land. When I left for team of wild horses to keep me from School groups and other volunteers college in the fall of 1980, picking continuing to work in and for this take part in the RiverWatchers a major was easy- biology was initiative. The time has flown by and program from many areas along the only area of study I knew and I honestly love organizing this event the Ohio River and its tributaries. loved.” just as much now as when I started.” In 2006, almost 15 years since the program began, Clymer Central Dave currently teaches in the same Becky coordinates one of the School from the Chautauqua class room as his first biology teacher, Mr. Sullivan. Love of nature several Clermont County sites in Watershed in New York was added and aquatics has now filled the walls the village of Moscow, OH. In to the RiverWatchers team. Although of the school building in Clymer, NY March 2012, a tornado destroyed the area is near the Lake Erie Basin, waters from the Chautauqua region for well over 60 years. 80% of the village and claimed the continued life of village councilwoman and drain into the Allegheny River in Moscow Sweep coordinator, Carol Warren, PA and then into the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. Forsee. Although the Sweep event was cancelled in Moscow the year Clymer Central School of the tornado, village residents Dave VanEarden and his students returned to “pick up the pieces” at Clymer Central School have (and the riverbank) a year following been sampling water for over 30 the devastating event. Becky’s years. Dave has been incorporating passion for the project continues to his data with the RiverWatchers encourage the residents of Moscow program for the last eight years from to participate in River Sweep. two sites in Chautauqua County, NY. 22 Dr. Z taught not only Dave, brook trout and other invasive THE FOUNDATION FOR OHIO but his high school mentor species with the New York State RIVER EDUCATION and teacher, Mr. Sullivan, too. Department of Environmental Between the teachers, they have Conservation (NYSDEC); 4) a The Foundation for Ohio River all shared the stream and pond survey of every tributary in the Education (FORE) is a non-profit with hundreds of students. entire Beaver Meadow Brook education foundation that was drainage to determine the established by ORSANCO in 2004. In 1999, Dave became involved water quality using a Water with Allegheny College in Quality Index formula from Each year, FORE reaches over Meadville, PA, through a stream Allegheny College; 5) work to 3,000 people in the Ohio River monitoring program called restore riparian buffer zones by Basin through a variety of “Creek Connections”. Only planting over 15,000 trees on programs that engage students a few years old at the time, drainages in Pennsylvania and and the general public in river the program has now been New York, and many more! monitoring, ecology studies, successfully teaching students in and stewardship. In the past the local schools of Pennsylvania “In all of these things we year, FORE conducted 29 and New York for almost 20 have done, I will tell you that River Research, Education and years. Creek Connections taught it has also been the trained Adventure Charters on the Ohio water monitoring in a local professionals that I have worked River for schools in the Greater stream called French Creek, with that have made our work Cincinnati area. These charters, where Dave’s own farm stream and success possible.” known as “River REACH” and pond empty into. Dave and programs, bring students in his students also monitor the Dave and his students grades 4 through 12 aboard creek, and it is one of two sites clearly define how successful a Queen City Riverboat for a they monitor for ORSANCO’s research is attained through day of hands-on water quality RiverWatchers program. the cooperation of many monitoring, biological monitoring, individuals and organizations… and river ecology studies. FORE Not only has Dave taught his working together to protect our also worked with 17 agencies, students the value of their local watershed in its many areas utilities, and organizations to water resource, but they have within the Ohio River Basin. shared their data with Findley Lake Watershed Foundation (FLWF) for almost 10 years. Their data has been used by FLWF to verify the water quality results measured each year by professional water quality consultants.

In addition to RiverWatchers and water quality monitoring, Dave and his students have worked on many different environmental projects in their local watershed, including: 1) a well water nitrate level study when the city of Clymer had to drill a new well; 2) an electrofishing field trip with ORSANCO in Pennsylvania to survey the Allegheny River; 3) an electrofishing survey for

23 2014 Resources Overview bring hands-on exhibits, presentations, Resources2014 Rbyeso Majorurces Ove Sourcerview trainings, summer camps, and professional Federal Funding development workshops to a variety of State FundingRes ources by Major Source audiences in the region. This past June, Other Program Funding FORE collaborated with Greater Cincinnati 2014 Resources Overview Water Works (GCWW) and Northern Kentucky’s Ecological Stewardship Institute 11% Resources by Major Source on a Source Water Protection Workshop Federal Funding 35% 54% for students enrolled in GCWW’s summer State Funding internship program and for students from Other Program Funding NKU’s Center for Environmental Education. 11% Students participating in the workshop Federal Funding 35% 54% worked directly with staff in ORSANCO’s State Funding watershed, ODS, and biological programs Other Program Funding to learn how they monitor and protect the Resources by Major Program Area Water Quality Monitoring & Assessment Ohio River. The highlights of the workshop Resources by Major Program Area for many students were getting out on Biological Assessment & Research the river to learn about electrofishing Drinking Water Security and processing water samples for E. coli Water Resources Public OutreachResou r/ce Educations by Majo rPrograms ProgramWat Areear Quality Monitoring & in ORSANCO’s mobile lab. FORE looks 3% Assessment Capital Improvement forward to another great year of outreach 2% 11% Biological Assessment & Research programming with their partners in the 44% DWatrinkeinr gQ Wuaatliteyr M Soencuitorirityn g & local community while continuing to 22% 3% Assessment promote the great work of ORSANCO’s 2% 11% WatBioelorgic Reasl oAusrcseesssme nt & Research staff and the entire Commission. 18% 44% Drinking Water Security 22% Public Outreach / Education Programs Water Resources 18% Capital Improvement Public Outreach / Education Programs Capital Improvement

AuditAuditeded financi afinanciall statements fstatementsor 2014 will be for ava il2014able in Febwillr uabery 2015available. in February 2015. Audited financial statements for 2014 will be available in February 2015.

24 ORSANCO Staff Peter Tennant, P.E., BCEE, Executive Director & Chief Engineer Tracey Edmonds, Administrative Assistant

Technical Programs Jason Heath, P.E., Technical Programs Manager Eben Hobbins, Environmental Specialist Greg Youngstrom, Environmental Specialist

Biological & Research Programs ORSANCO staff members participate in the 2014 Jeff Thomas, Manager of Biological Programs River Sweep. Ryan Argo, Senior Biologist Rob Tewes, Senior Biologist

Source Water Protection & Emergency Response Jerry Schulte, Manager of Source Water Protection, Emergency Response & External Relations Travis Luncan, Environmental Chemist Lila Xepoleas Ziolkowski, Analytical & Environmental Chemist

Water Resources Jason Heath and son Sam Dinkins, Water Resources Assessment Manager Steve Braun, Environmental Specialist Stacey Cochran, Environmental Specialist

Public Information Programs Lisa Cochran, Communications Coordinator Melissa Mann, Public Information/Education Specialist

Administrative Programs & Human Resources David Bailey, Director of Administration & Human Resources Stacey Cochran and family Joe Gilligan, Comptroller Adam Scott, Computer Systems Administrator Donna Beatsch, Data Processing Specialist, Part-time Matt Glazer, Maintenance, Part-time

FORE Heather Mayfield, Director

Staff Milestones Jason Heath – 25 years Stacey Cochran – 10 years Ryan Argo – 5 years Ryan Argo and daughter 25 Members of the Commission Chairman: Toby Frevert Vice-Chairman: Thomas Easterly *As of June 30, 2014. An updated list of ORSANCO’s Secretary/Treasurer: Douglas E. Conroe Commissioners is available at www.orsanco.org Executive Director and Chief Engineer: Peter Tennant, P.E., BCEE Joseph H. Harrison, Sr. Illinois A Commissioner of Distinction Lisa Bonnett, Director, Illinois EPA Toby Frevert Phillip C. Morgan Joe was appointed to the Commission in 1982 by then- Indiana Governor Robert Orr. He served Joseph H. Harrison, Sr., Bowers Harrison, LLP as Commission Chairman in Thomas Easterly, Commissioner, Indiana Department of 1986-87. He subsequently served Environmental Management on a number of Commission Vasiliki Keramida, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive committees, most notably the Congressional Liaison Officer, Keramida Environmental, Inc. Committee which he chaired from its inception until Kentucky the present. His 32 years as a commissioner mark the Leonard Peters, Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet longest service to ORSANCO of any commissioner. Jerry Abramson, Lieutenant Governor C. Ronald Lovan, P.E., President/CEO, Northern Kentucky Joe was a founding member and former managing Water District partner of Bowers Harrison and has recently retired after 60 years of practicing law. He represented New York numerous businesses and individuals in the Evansville Douglas E. Conroe, Director of Operations, Chautauqua area concerning their daily business and personal Institution needs. Joe was admitted to practice in Indiana and Joe Martens, Commissioner, New York Department of the District of Columbia, as well as being admitted to Environmental Conservation Michael P. Wilson practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, United States Court of Ohio Appeals, 7th Circuit and the United States Tax Court. Craig Butler, Director, Ohio EPA He was a member of the Evansville Bar Association, Paul Tomes Indiana State Bar Association, and the American Bar Stuart F. Bruny Association. We thank Joe for his lifetime of dedication to Ohio River water quality and his commitment to Pennsylvania ORSANCO and wish him the best in his retirement. Greg Phillips, District Manager/CEO, Westmoreland Conservation District E. Christopher Abruzzo, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Charles Duritsa

Virginia David Paylor, Director, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Robert L. Dunn, Virginia State Water Control Board

West Virginia Randy C. Huffman, Cabinet Secretary, Department of Environmental Protection David Flannery, Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC Ronald R. Potesta, President, Potesta and Associates

Federal George Elmaraghy, Senior Project Manager, Stantec Consulting Tom FitzGerald, Director, Kentucky Resources Council Susan Hedman, Administrator, EPA Region 5 Joe Harrison, Jr. accepts service recognition award on his father’s behalf. 26 ORSANCO 5735 Kellogg Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45230 Phone (513) 231-7719 Fax (513) 231-7761 www.orsanco.org

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