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Jeffreys Energy Center Biomonitoring
- Timeframe: 2008 - 2009
- Location: Lost Creek in Pottawatomie County Kansas
- Point-of-Contact: Debbie Baker
CPCB will perform physical, chemical, and biological monitoring and assessment of Lost Creek and an unnamed tributary that receives cooling water downstream from the Jeffrey Energy Center (JEC) north of St. Marys, KS. As of Aug. 2008, JEC had not yet begun to discharge water that will be associated with its wet scrubbers, thus affording an opportunity to study potential pre- and post-impact on these streams. In July 2008, CPCB sampled 9 sites, 3 on the unnamed tributary and 6 on Lost Creek above and below the confluence of the tributary. Sampling will be repeated fall 2008 and summer and fall 2009. This sampling scheme allows for the general temporal assessment of the biology and chemistry associated with study sites during the summer and fall when minimum flows and high biological activity is expected and thus discharge “affects” might be the highest. To assess the habitat at each site, CPCB will use both the Habitat Development Index (HDI) (Huggins and Moffet 1988) used by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Ohio EPA’s Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index (QHEI).
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Analysis, Results, or Reports
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Maps, Images, or Photos
Don and Perry measuring stream width.
Don and Bhavana electrofishing.
