Contaminant Assessment and Reduction Project Water CARP Simon Litten Bureau of Water Assessment and Management Division of Water New York State Department of Environmental Conservation August 2003 CARP Final Report, Simon Litten, 8/14/03 Table of Contents Development of CARP ....................................................................................................... 4 Harbor Estuary Program (HEP) ...................................................................................... 5 Mud Dump Site/HARS/Dredging................................................................................... 6 Contaminant Assessment and Reduction Project (CARP) ............................................. 7 Some of the People Who Made CARP Possible............................................................. 8 New York Harbor.............................................................................................................. 10 Major Tributaries .......................................................................................................... 10 Minor Tributaries.......................................................................................................... 11 Sewage Treatment Plants .............................................................................................. 11 CSOs and SWOs ........................................................................................................... 14 Landfills........................................................................................................................ 16 Sampling History and Methods......................................................................................... 18 TOPS............................................................................................................................. 18 PISCES ......................................................................................................................... 23 Data Management ......................................................................................................... 24 Samples............................................................................................................................. 25 Cosine Tide ................................................................................................................... 27 Tributaries.....................................................................................................................31 Water Pollution Control Facilities (WPCFs). ............................................................... 33 Industrial Effluents and Landfill Leachates .................................................................. 36 CSOs and SWOs ........................................................................................................... 37 The Chemicals...................................................................................................................39 PCBs ............................................................................................................................. 39 Dioxins/Furans .............................................................................................................. 41 Pesticides....................................................................................................................... 42 PAHs ............................................................................................................................. 43 Metals............................................................................................................................ 44 SS/DOC/POC................................................................................................................ 46 Quality Control .................................................................................................................48 Quality Control – Field Blanks and Equipment Blanks................................................ 51 PCB Blanks ................................................................................................................... 52 Dioxin/Furan Blanks ..................................................................................................... 53 PAH Blanks .................................................................................................................. 53 Total DDT Blanks ......................................................................................................... 53 Dieldrin Blanks ............................................................................................................. 53 Total Chlordane Blanks ................................................................................................ 54 Sample Results .................................................................................................................. 55 PCBs ............................................................................................................................. 55 PCB Data Quality...................................................................................................... 55 PCB Results .............................................................................................................. 56 Ambient Concentrations ........................................................................................... 63 Tributaries................................................................................................................. 72 Wastewater Pollution Control Facilities................................................................... 74 CSO/SWO................................................................................................................. 82 2 CARP Final Report, Simon Litten, 8/14/03 Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludges ....................................................................... 84 Landfill Leachates..................................................................................................... 85 Industrial Effluents.................................................................................................... 87 Trackdown ................................................................................................................ 87 Congener Analysis.................................................................................................... 90 PCDD/PCDFs ............................................................................................................... 93 Data Quality.............................................................................................................. 94 Sample Data .............................................................................................................. 96 Ambient-Clean.......................................................................................................... 98 Hudson River ............................................................................................................ 99 Ambient-Kills ......................................................................................................... 101 Ambient- East River and the Minor Tributaries ..................................................... 104 CSOs (Wet Weather Influents to Wastewater Treatment Plants)........................... 106 WPCF Final Effluents ............................................................................................. 106 Sludges and Biosolids............................................................................................. 109 Pesticides..................................................................................................................... 111 Data Quality............................................................................................................ 112 Sample Findings...................................................................................................... 114 Wallkill Trackdown................................................................................................ 116 TOPS pesticide samples.......................................................................................... 118 Sediments ................................................................................................................ 121 Next Steps ............................................................................................................... 123 PAHs ........................................................................................................................... 123 PAH Quality............................................................................................................ 124 PAH Samples, Biosolids......................................................................................... 128 PAHs In Water........................................................................................................ 130 Total PAHs.............................................................................................................. 133 Metals.......................................................................................................................... 140 Metal Results, Quality............................................................................................. 140 Samples................................................................................................................... 141 Trackdown .............................................................................................................. 145 Accessory Parameters ................................................................................................