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Missouri River Workgroup - USEPA Regions 7 and 8
Overview: The Central Plains Center for BioAssessment (CPCB) is providing data and analytical support to USEPA Regions 7 and 8 to support efforts to coordinate the nutrient criteria work of states and tribes in the Missouri River Basin (www.epa.gov/msbasin/subbasins/mo/index.htm), including Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska in USEPA Region 7 and South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana in Region 8.
CPCB's immediate objectives are to:
- Solicit from federal, state, tribal, and local agencies and academic institutions the chemical and biological data available from the Missouri River.
- Incorporate all data into one MSAccess relational database.
- Document data acquisition and compilation, including methods, detection limits, QAQC procedures, etc.
- Present data at regional meetings (in person or conference calls) and make data and documents available on the CPCB webpage.
Click here for the RTAG overview talk (pdf) given at the Nebraska City 2008 Missouri River Natural Resources Committee conference.
Project Outcomes:
Results from analyses of the river database, regional meetings, and summary
documentation will provide states and tribes with resources for determining
their own nutrient criteria for nitrogen, phosphorus, chlorophyll and turbidity
in the Missouri River. Each state can use the data to further refine the
criteria based on stream size, ecoregion, watershed land use/land cover,
etc.
Literature
USEPA Region 7 & 8 Workgroup Members - incomplete
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Name
(Click name for e-mail)Affiliation
(Click name to go to organization's website)Welker, Gary RTAG Coordinator - USEPA Region 7 Laidlaw, Tina RTAG Coordinator - USEPA Region 8 Huggins, Don CPCB Director Baker, Debbie CPCB Assistant Director Koontz, Jason CPCB Graduate Research Assistant
