DOCSLIB.ORG

Water Quality Reports, and Entry Into Computerized Databases (I.E

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Water Quality Reports, and Entry Into Computerized Databases (I.E STATE OF MISSISSIPPI WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT 1998 Pursuant to Section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act Prepared by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Office of Pollution Control P. O. Box 10385 Jackson, Mississippi 39289-0385 May, 1999 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Mississippi's 1998 Water Quality Assessment Report was prepared by the Office of Pollution Control of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality pursuant to Section 305(b) of the Federal Clean Water Act. The report was the immediate responsibility of the Surface Water Division's Water Quality Assessment Branch. In addition to the Water Quality Assessment Branch, personnel of the Field Services Division, Laboratory, Groundwater Division, Hazardous Waste Division, and others within the Surface Water Division contributed to the report. The purpose of the report is to describe the most recently known status of the quality of the State's waters. The cover photo (Choctaw Lake, near Ackerman) was taken by Jennifer Griffin, of the Environmental Resource Center (ERC). A copy of this report may be obtained by contacting: Betty Smith ERC Freedom of Information Officer Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality P.O. Box 20305 Jackson, MS 39289-1305 Fax: (601) 354-6356 E-Mail: [email protected] ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................................ ii TABLE OF CONTENTS......................................................... iii TABLE OF TABLES............................................................. x TABLE OF FIGURES........................................................... xi PART I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/OVERVIEW.................................................. 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY/OVERVIEW.................................................. 2 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE ................................................... 2 TOTAL WATERS ............................................................. 2 Assessment Methodology ................................................. 3 Assessment Methodology - Monitored Assessments ......................... 3 Assessment Methodology - Evaluated Assessments ......................... 4 Assessment Methodology - Basin Assessments and Maps .................... 5 Section 303(d) Waters .................................................. 5 Use Support Summary .................................................... 6 Causes and Sources of Impairment of Designated Uses .................... 8 WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAMS ......................................... 9 Surface Water Division ................................................. 9 Point Source Control Program ........................................... 9 Nonpoint Source Control Program ....................................... 10 Basinwide Approach to Water Quality Management ........................ 11 Emergency Pollution Control ........................................... 11 Wetlands Protection Activities ........................................ 12 Ground Water Protection Program ....................................... 13 SURFACE WATER MONITORING PROGRAM ........................................ 13 Objectives ............................................................ 13 Monitoring Strategy ................................................... 14 Ambient Fixed Station Monitoring ...................................... 14 Primary Fixed Station Monitoring Network .............................. 15 Ambient Biological and Fish Tissue Monitoring ......................... 15 Basin Fixed Station Monitoring Network ................................ 16 Intensive Surveys and Special Studies ................................. 16 WLA Investigations/Biological Assessments Below Point Source Discharges ....................................... 17 Source Compliance and Environmental Damage Assessment Monitoring ...... 17 GROUND WATER ASSESSMENT ................................................. 18 Assessment Methodology ................................................ 18 Ground Water Monitoring Program ....................................... 18 Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer ............................. 19 Paleozoic Aquifer System, Coffee Sand Aquifer, and Ripley Aquifer ..... 20 Ground Water Quality .................................................. 20 SPECIAL STATE CONCERNS .................................................. 20 RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................... 21 PART II BACKGROUND................................................................. 22 BACKGROUND................................................................. 23 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE..................................................... 23 TOTAL WATERS ............................................................ 23 WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAMS ........................................ 25 Surface Water Division ................................................ 25 Water Quality Management Branch ....................................... 26 iii Water Quality Assessment Branch ....................................... 26 Municipal Permit Compliance Branch .................................... 27 Commercial Control Branch ............................................. 28 Data Control Branch ................................................... 28 Field Services Division ............................................... 28 Emergency Response Branch ............................................. 29 Basinwide Approach to Water Quality Management ........................ 29 Water Quality Standards Program ....................................... 33 Point Source Control Program .......................................... 33 NPDES Permits ......................................................... 33 State Operating Permits ............................................. 34 Pretreatment Permits ................................................ 34 Dredge and Fill Permits ............................................. 34 Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Testing and Monitoring ................ 35 Environmental Improvements Due to Point Source Controls ............. 35 Nonpoint Source Control Program ....................................... 36 BMP Effectiveness Demonstration Projects ............................ 38 New BMP Technology Projects ......................................... 41 Monitoring/Assessment Projects ...................................... 41 Water Quality Education Projects .................................... 41 COST/BENEFIT ASSESSMENT ................................................. 42 SPECIAL STATE CONCERNS .................................................. 42 Specific State Concerns ............................................... 43 Mississippi Gulf Coast .............................................. 43 Agricultural Impacts ................................................ 44 Escatawpa River near Moss Point ..................................... 44 Mercury Contamination in Fish Tissue from Surface Waters ............ 45 Lower Pearl River ................................................... 45 Tallahala Creek Below Laurel ........................................ 45 Other State Water Quality Concerns .................................. 46 Resource Concerns ................................................... 46 RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................... 48 PART III SURFACE WATER ASSESSMENT................................................... 49 CHAPTER ONE SURFACE WATER MONITORING PROGRAM ............................ 50 Objectives ............................................................ 50 Monitoring Strategy ................................................... 50 Ambient Fixed Station Monitoring Network .............................. 50 Primary Fixed Station Monitoring Network ............................ 51 Ambient - Physical/Chemical/Bacteriological Monitoring .............. 53 Ambient Biological and Fish Tissue Monitoring..................... 55 Biological Monitoring - 1995 ................................... 57 Biological Monitoring B1996 .................................... 58 Biological Monitoring-1997 ..................................... 60 Basinwide Approach Pilot Study - Pascagoula River Basin (1997)........................... 60 Biological Monitoring-1998 ..................................... 60 Basinwide Approach Studies-1998 ................................ 60 Northern Independent Streams Basin ............................. 60 Tennessee River Basin .......................................... 61 Southern Coastal Streams Basin ................................. 61 Biological Criteria Development ....................................... 61 Basin Fixed Station Monitoring Network .............................. 62 Intensive Surveys and Special Studies ................................. 64 Model Calibration/Verification Surveys for WLA and TMDL Development...................................... 65 WLA Investigation Studies/Biological Assessments Below Point Source Discharges..................................... 65 Special Water Quality Studies for Parameters of Concern .............. (Dioxin, Mercury, Bacteria, etc.) ................................... 68 iv Source Compliance and Environmental Damage Assessment Monitoring ...... 68 Source Compliance Monitoring .......................................... 69 NPDES Permit Compliance Monitoring .................................. 69 Facility/Permittee In-Stream Monitoring ............................. 69 Environmental Damage Assessment Monitoring .........................
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Humid Landforms Ian Douglas Professor of Geography University of New England
    I I Humid Landforms Landforms Humid Douglas Volume One An Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology Landscapes which contain moving water are perhaps the most sccnically attractive, and to a geomorphologist have long been a central focus for Humid Landforms landform studies. Humid Landforms examines from a novel angle the effects of running water on the landscape, emphasising the processes Ian Douglas changing valleys and rivers. The author takes the humid tropics as the most characteristic case of landform evolution through water erosion and deposition and treats humid temperate lands, previously accepted as the ‘normal’ pattern of landform evolution, as a variation of the situation in the humid tropics. The book emphasises the basic principles of chemical, physical and biotic interrelationships which affect the pattern of landform evolution and provides the reader with a greater understanding of the changes, sometimes dramatic, that moving water makes to the surrounding countryside. Jacket photograph of the Crystal Cascades of Freshwater Creek near Cairns, Queensland, taken by the author I I Humid Landforms Landforms Humid Douglas Volume One An Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology Landscapes which contain moving water are perhaps the most sccnically attractive, and to a geomorphologist have long been a central focus for Humid Landforms landform studies. Humid Landforms examines from a novel angle the effects of running water on the landscape, emphasising the processes Ian Douglas changing valleys and rivers. The author takes the humid tropics as the most characteristic case of landform evolution through water erosion and deposition and treats humid temperate lands, previously accepted as the ‘normal’ pattern of landform evolution, as a variation of the situation in the humid tropics.
    [Show full text]
  • Mississippi Academy of Sciences
    MISSISSIPPI ACADEMY OF SCIENCES EIGHTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING February 20-21, 2020 Mississippi Gulf Coast and Convention Center Biloxi, MS Sponsors (Annual Meeting Sponsor) Mississippi State University- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences College of Forest Resources James Worth Bagley College of Engieering Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences Volume 65 January 2020 Number 1 Contents 3 ACADEMY OFFICERS & DIVISION CHAIRS 2019-2020 Editor 4 GENERAL SCHEDULE Michelle Tucci University of Mississippi Medical Center 7 DIRECTIONS TO CONFERENCE CENTER Editorial Board 8 SUSTAINING MEMBERS 9 LIFE MEMBERS Maria Begonia Jackson State University 10 EXHIBITORS 11 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S COLUMN Ibrahim O. Farah 12 MAS AWARDS AND DODGEN LECTURE Jackson State University 16 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS Millsaps Undergraduate Student Awards and Mississippi INBRE Robin Rockhold Graduate Student Awards, LSMAMP University of Mississippi Medical Center Ham Benghuzzi 24 OVERVIEW OF DIVISIONAL PROGRAMS University of Mississippi Medical Center Biloxi Convention Center Floor Plans and Notes Program Editor ABSTRACTS Kenneth Butler 36 Agriculture and Plant Science University of Mississippi Medical Center 43 Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology 63 Chemistry and Chemical Engineering The Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences (ISSN 0076-9436) is published in 88 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology January (annual meeting abstracts), April, 94 Geology and Geography July, and October, by the Mississippi Acad- emy of Sciences. Members of the Academy 101 Health Sciences receive the journal as part of their regular (nonstudent) membership. Inquiries 123 History and Philosophy of Science regarding subscriptions, availability of back 127 Marine and Atmospheric Sciences issues, and address changes should be addressed to The Mississippi Academy of 130 Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics Sciences, Post Office Box 55709, Jackson, 136 Physics and Engineering MS 39296-5709, telephone 601-977-0627, or email [email protected].
    [Show full text]
  • Earth's Fresh Waters Test Answer Sheet by the Way Limnology Is
    Earth’s Fresh Waters test answer sheet By the way limnology is SOMETIMES considered the study of freshwater. In reality it isn’t exactly and is actually the study of inland waters. This especially includes lakes, ponds, rivers, springs, streams, wetlands. Also, when you don’t know the answer use common sense (some of the pictures are hard, but at least make educated guesses (in earth science it is complete common sense minus the laws, fill in pictures, etc.) . My personal recommendation is to do two things: look at as much random info in your memory as possible and link it to water (have fun with it) and to look at websites other than Wikipedia. I have to admit Wikipedia is good, but it seems to be a weakness in which getting info. from multiple sources makes the test more diverse (JD’s tests for example with the waterfalls). By the way for certain questions that you did guess I did actually give half to a quarter credit meaning you would do better if you gave decent guesses that applied to the question. Label both the black and white boxes: 1. Compare Hard and Soft water. Such answers include, but are not limited to: Hard water consists of concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+. Soft water involves the removal of hardness ions, sometimes with distillation. Hard water has certain positive effects like getting calcium or magnesium. It is also negative because it can lead to the consumption of toxic metals or heavy metals. 2. By adding this element to water tooth decay can occur.
    [Show full text]
  • Illustrations. GM
    DOCUMENT RESUME 740 ED 056 814 RC (..0 kUTHOR Tatum, W. Hugh; And Others TITLE Mississippi Statewide ComprehensiveOutdoor Recreation Plan. INSTITUTION Mississippi Research and DevelopmentCenter, Jackson. SPONS AGENCY Department of the Interior,Washington, D.C. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation.;Mississippi State Park System, Jackson. PUB DATE Dec 69 NOTE 205p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$9.87 DESCRIPTORS Demography; Land Use; *NaturalResources; *Recreation; *RecreationalFacilities; *Rural Development; State RecreationLegislation; *Statewide Planning; Water Resources IDENTIFIERS Mississippi ABSTRACT Objectives of the officialcomprehensive outdoor recreation plan for the State ofMississippi are (1)to guide recreaticnal development in Mississippiin an orderly fashion ')11 a statewide level;(2) to survey public,semipublic, commercial, and private outdoor recreationalopportunities;(3) to determine recreational needs for meeting presentand future demand;(4) to develop minimum standards forrecreational development; and (5) to develop a 5-yeav action program foracquisition and development of lands and waters. The plan hasencompassed (1) examination of planning objectives, legal anthorityto participate in theLand and Water Conservation Fund Program,participation in the planning process, and coordinationwith related plans and programsand (2) description of state delineationof recreational responsibilitiesand special probleNs. Demand, supply,needs, and the program implementation are the primary elementsof the plan ant in detailed description withillustrations. GM kl 1 14 Ccfz Iv()W 0)11.1Jzo1J(::0N.21L-J410-\ 11°%140 0(11, 1,1p041' ;10 w,Z 11,'Ik9rf/'°1;;1,;;;;,4 114.i ,111 ;I /it11AI )14'1111°'it ,;y11::,11.40111,1;6tilpI 1'1 ,7, I ,''0",I.II 4,4,4, 14,4 16r'ito,&, , ,e1,1 110,10 ' 4i,l'Ort r ' krol PP Ki.
    [Show full text]
  • Yazoo-Mississippi River Basin Study Mississippi
    Historic, Archive Document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. YAZOO-MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN STUDY MISSISSIPPI UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE FOREST SERVICE IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI JUNE 1975 r YAZOO-MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN STUDY ^ MISSISSIPPI Prepared by UNITED SJATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE r Soil Conservation Service Economic Research Service Forest Service Jackson, Mississippi June 1975 . 6.X)344 PREFACE This study encompasses the entire Yazoo River Basin located in the State of Mississippi. The report contains a description of the basin's resources and identifies problems, needs, and alternative solutions for meeting the problems and needs. A recommended early- action plan and a long-range plan was formulated to schedule de- velopment features. The study emphasizes the need for coordination between the Corps of Engineers and the Soil Conservation Service's planning efforts and project installations. The most critical prob- lem areas and needs requiring close planning and coordination are identified. A supplemental study for part of the basin has been approved. This study will investigate the need for additional flood damage reduction and the control of erosion and sediment. All alternatives solutions and recommended plan elements will be coordinated with the Corps of Engineers' planned and installed outlets and other structural measures. This supplemental area includes all of the upland area below the Corps of Engineers' reservoirs and the delta area east of the Yazoo, Tallahatchie, and Coldwater Rivers. These areas are re- ferred to in this study as areas 9, 8E, and a small part of area 8W below Yazoo City.
    [Show full text]
  • Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology
    0632060441_1_pretoc.qxd 11/30/05 8:32 Page iii Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology Paul Goldberg and Richard I. Macphail Department of Archaeology, Boston University and Institute of Archaeology, University College London 0632060441_1_pretoc.qxd 11/30/05 8:32 Page i 0632060441_1_pretoc.qxd 11/30/05 8:32 Page i Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology 0632060441_1_pretoc.qxd 11/30/05 8:32 Page ii Dedicated by RIM to the late Peter Reynolds (Butser Ancient Farm, United Kingdom) and Roger Engelmark (University of Umeå, Sweden): pioneers of experimental farms (see Chapter 12) From RIM: to Mum, Jill, and Flora From PG: to my folks for sending me away to summer camp 0632060441_1_pretoc.qxd 11/30/05 8:32 Page iii Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology Paul Goldberg and Richard I. Macphail Department of Archaeology, Boston University and Institute of Archaeology, University College London 0632060441_1_pretoc.qxd 11/30/05 8:32 Page iv © 2006 by Blackwell Science Ltd, a Blackwell Publishing company BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Paul Goldberg and Richard I. Macphail to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher.
    [Show full text]
  • Soule River Habitat Surveys a Field Journal  • Soule River Surveys
    Richard Carstensen Discovery Southeast Juneau, Alaska for the Shipley Group Woods Cross, Utah July, 2009 SOULE RIVER HABITAT SURVEYS A FIELD JOURNAL 2 • Soule River surveys • ArcMap convention for dates is used in this journal: 20090713 = July 13th, 2009. • 4-letter plant codes are used for species encountered frequently. See table at end of journal. Animals or sign thereof are noted in bold. • This pdf is “bookmarked,” allowing quick navigation from the bookmarks tab or Contents below. The left-arrow icon (or alt+backarrow) returns to your previous position. Parts of the journal are best viewed in facing-pages mode. • Map on page 8 shows portions of the Soule watershed surveyed on each field day. CONTENTS Watershed context 1 Bedrock geology 2 NWI 4 Hydrology 5 Tree size 5 20090713 Juneau-Ketchikan-Hyder 6 20090714 North Fork W side 7 Ground-truthing field techniques 12 Bushwacking difficulty scale 13 20090715 N Fork & confluence 15 Mapping Taricha 18 20090716 North Fork E side 26 20090717 RC office day 34 Yazoo channels 30 Glacial episodes 32 Paleo-shorelines? 32 20090718 Mainstem, W side 35 20090719 Mainstem, E side 45 Kim Hastings fish studies 48 Bracken and fire 57 20090720 West Fork, delta 58 GPS photolink issues 59 Soule Glacier retreat 61 20090721 Aerial wrap-up, delta 68 20090721 Hyder to Ketchikan 75 4-letter plant codes 76 When in doubt, ask a local 76 Baichtal-Streveler correspondence 77 Summary thoughts on the Soule 79 Potential Soule mammals 80 References 83 [email protected] 3 SOULE RIVER PRE-FIELD SCOPING Preface: Koren Bosworth and I will be traveling to the Soule River to help with assessments for a proposed hydro development there.
    [Show full text]
  • Dissertation
    ABSTRACT This project considers the development of the cultural landscape of Native American chiefdoms in the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi. Chronicles written by certain members of the Hernando de Soto expedition offer exciting glimpses into the landscape and lifeways of Native American societies in 1541, but they do not shed light on how the landscape of chiefdoms in the Lower Mississippi Valley developed during the period before Spanish contact. This dissertation research focuses on the time period just before Spanish contact, the Mississippi Period (AD 1200-1540), and on Mississippian culture, and it investigates how monuments were built and used in a rapidly changing and dynamic landscape, one in which the meandering and flooding Mississippi river affected the long-term formation of social and political networks. This research relies on environmental, ethnohistoric, and archaeological data to provide a historically contingent description of the processes leading to the development of one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the region. Sediment cores excavated in mound and off- mound contexts suggest the site was constructed over a crevasse splay, a high-elevation landform. Both coring data and trench excavation demonstrate that Mound D, the largest mound at Carson, was built in four stages and that stages II and III were the largest stages. Excavations on Mound D demonstrate that a moderately large-sized structure was once constructed on the southwest corner of the mound summit and that the structure was used to produce craft goods such as shell beads, shell gorgets, and statuary. Data from mound construction and craft production, as well as ethnohistoric and geomorphic research, are used to describe social organization, hierarchy, and leadership at Carson.
    [Show full text]
  • Appendix D BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION
    Appendix D BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION I. INTRODUCTION This Biological Evaluation (BE) documents analysis and potential for effects on threatened, endangered, and sensitive (TES) species resulting from making National Forests in Mississippi lands available for federal oil and gas leasing of all federally owned minerals. There are 3 objectives of this BE: 1) to ensure that Forest Service actions do not contribute to loss of viability of any native or desired non-native plant or animal species, 2) to include concerns for sensitive species within the planning process, thereby reducing potential negative effects to these species, and 3) to ensure that activities will not cause a species to move toward federal listing. Such species are those whose viability is most likely to be put at risk from management actions. This BE conforms with legal requirements set forth in Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (19 U.S.C. 1536 ©), and the direction given in Forest Service Manual (FSM) 2672, and to meet the biological evaluation standard in the 1989 ROD for Vegetation Management in the Coastal Plain. As part of the NEPA decision making process, this evaluation provides information in sufficient detail to determine how proposed actions may affect any TES species. Consideration of the information contained within this BE will ensure that no species is placed in jeopardy by management decisions and actions. II. CONSULTATION WITH THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Interagency cooperation between the Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding proposed, endangered, or threatened species is described in Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.
    [Show full text]
  • 2010 Annual Report Draft 12/28/10
    Mississippi’s Nonpoint Source Management Program Mississippi River 2010 Annual Report Prepared Pursuant to Section 319 of the Clean Water Act Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality December 2010 14 Mississippi’s 2010 Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program Annual Report Table of Contents Executive Summary..........................................(3) Nonpoint Source Pollution Definition............ (5) History of NPS Program........................................ (6) First Ten Years Moving into the Future Highlights of the Year...................................... (7) Assessment & Monitoring/TMDL Activity TMDLs Stressor Identification Program Mississippi Benthic Index of Stream Quality Mississippi Alluvial Plain Monitoring Geographic Information Systems Mapping Watershed Resource Management System Agrichemical Groundwater Monitoring Program Supplemental Watershed Project Monitoring Section 319 Watershed Projects ............... (14) Section 319 Grant Awards Graph Nutrient Reduction Strategy Basin Management Approach Map Depicting NPS Watershed Project Locations List of NPS Projects by Name Showcased Section 319 Projects……..….(20) Fourteen Mile / Baker Red Creek Watershed Magees Creek Watershed Buttahatchie River Project Steele Bayou Turkey Creek Watershed Ross Barnett Reservoir Foundation Formation NPS Education/Public Outreach................... (30) Adopt-A-Stream Envirothon Competition Watershed Harmony Mississippi Urban Forestry Council Storm Water Workshops Project Earth Teacher Workshops Yazoo River Tours Secchi Day 2010 Environmental
    [Show full text]