Post by Admin on Dec 25, 2020 0:58:33 GMT
Rogue Basin Toxics Summary
Date: Dec. 18, 2020 Ho, ho, ho look what Santa put under our ODFW Christmas Tree!! Did the DEQ try to slip this by us by delivering it during Christmas? Naughty, naught and naughty but not nice!
A new report by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality offers a deep look at toxics in the Rogue River Basin.
Rogue Basin Toxics Summary is the first comprehensive report about toxics sampling across waters leading into the Rogue River, as well as the river itself. DEQ detected 152 of the nearly 500 chemicals included in the analysis of samples taken in 2015. The most commonly detected chemicals were arsenic, Diuron, and sulfamethoxazole – an antibiotic medicine used to treat bacterial infections – in water samples, DDT and PCBs in sediment samples, and PCBs and mercury in fish tissue samples.
Potential sources for the contaminants include current and former industrial sites, as well as sediments near former dam locations. DEQ did not find evidence of contaminants that pose an immediate risk to human health or the environment. The waters of the Rogue River Basin are safe for fishing, boating and other recreation. Contaminant levels in surface water are less than federal health-based levels specifically developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water.
DEQ and the Oregon Health Authority have different human health safety criteria. Aquatic life and human health criteria are regulatory standards established by DEQ as part of its responsibilities under the federal Clean Water Act. We use these criteria to establish limits on permitted discharges, under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. Bull Shit!
Based upon the results of this study, DEQ staff selected four monitoring locations that will become a part of the Water Quality Toxics Monitoring program’s trend network. The sites are located in Bear Creek near Central Point, and in the Rogue River at or near Gold Hill, Merlin, and about seven miles from the Pacific Ocean.
This report is the latest to come from DEQ’s Water Quality Toxics Monitoring . The goals of this sampling, and of the Toxics Monitoring Program as a whole, are to gather information on chemicals of concern, identify potential sources, make the information available to the public, and work with internal and external partners to reduce pollutant concentrations.
About DEQ: the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality protects human health and the environment by controlling air and water pollution, reducing the impacts of manufactured products and cleaning up contaminated properties. DEQ engages the public in decision-making and helps communities solve problems in ways that are economically and environmentally sustainable.
Media contact
Media contact: Dylan Darling, DEQ Western Region public affairs specialist, 541-600-6119, dylan.darling@deq.state.or.us.
Date: Dec. 18, 2020 Ho, ho, ho look what Santa put under our ODFW Christmas Tree!! Did the DEQ try to slip this by us by delivering it during Christmas? Naughty, naught and naughty but not nice!
A new report by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality offers a deep look at toxics in the Rogue River Basin.
Rogue Basin Toxics Summary is the first comprehensive report about toxics sampling across waters leading into the Rogue River, as well as the river itself. DEQ detected 152 of the nearly 500 chemicals included in the analysis of samples taken in 2015. The most commonly detected chemicals were arsenic, Diuron, and sulfamethoxazole – an antibiotic medicine used to treat bacterial infections – in water samples, DDT and PCBs in sediment samples, and PCBs and mercury in fish tissue samples.
Potential sources for the contaminants include current and former industrial sites, as well as sediments near former dam locations. DEQ did not find evidence of contaminants that pose an immediate risk to human health or the environment. The waters of the Rogue River Basin are safe for fishing, boating and other recreation. Contaminant levels in surface water are less than federal health-based levels specifically developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water.
DEQ and the Oregon Health Authority have different human health safety criteria. Aquatic life and human health criteria are regulatory standards established by DEQ as part of its responsibilities under the federal Clean Water Act. We use these criteria to establish limits on permitted discharges, under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. Bull Shit!
Based upon the results of this study, DEQ staff selected four monitoring locations that will become a part of the Water Quality Toxics Monitoring program’s trend network. The sites are located in Bear Creek near Central Point, and in the Rogue River at or near Gold Hill, Merlin, and about seven miles from the Pacific Ocean.
This report is the latest to come from DEQ’s Water Quality Toxics Monitoring . The goals of this sampling, and of the Toxics Monitoring Program as a whole, are to gather information on chemicals of concern, identify potential sources, make the information available to the public, and work with internal and external partners to reduce pollutant concentrations.
About DEQ: the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality protects human health and the environment by controlling air and water pollution, reducing the impacts of manufactured products and cleaning up contaminated properties. DEQ engages the public in decision-making and helps communities solve problems in ways that are economically and environmentally sustainable.
Media contact
Media contact: Dylan Darling, DEQ Western Region public affairs specialist, 541-600-6119, dylan.darling@deq.state.or.us.