Effects of wastewater effluent discharge and treatment facility upgrades on environmental and biological conditions of the upper Blue River, Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri, January 2003 through March 2009

Graham, Jennifer L.; Stone, Mandy L.; Rasmussen, Teresa J.; Poulton, Barry C.

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“…¼ 67), and would be rated partially-supporting with the loss of only a few taxa. Considering a recent study in a stream within the same EDU as our study sites (Blue River) that documented a loss of 13 EPT macroinvertebrate taxa downstream of a point source (Graham et al 2010, Poulton et al 2015, this scenario remains a possibility for streams in the MS4 area of KCMO. Another implication of these results is that when a stream site is near the cutoff threshold for the fully-supporting criteria, the impairment status of a site may experience more seasonal or year-toyear fluctuations.…”

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Evaluation of EPT macroinvertebrate metrics in small streams located within the non-connected stormwater management region of Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Poulton

Tao²

2019

Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science

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During 2012-2014, we evaluated macroinvertebrate communities in streams draining the non-connected stormwater management region (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System, or MS4) within the Kansas City metropolitan area utilizing the Missouri bioassessment protocols. Trends in aquatic life impairment status based on Missouri's Macroinvertebrate Stream Condition Index (MSCI), as well as richness and abundance of EPT indicator metrics (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera), were compared between rural control sites and both transitional and urban stream sites representing varying stages of land use conversion. As compared to non-urban control sites, EPT taxa richness was significantly lower at MS4 urban sites during all three years (p = 0.007 – 0.013) and MS4 transitional sites during one of three years (p=0.48). EPT abundance (%) was significantly lower at MS4 urban sites during all years (p = 0.008 – 0.013) and MS4 transitional sites during one of three years (p=0.34). Mean EPT abundances ranged between 0.6% - 10.3% at urban MS4 sites, and always exceeded 18% at control sites. Both EPT richness and abundance were lower at the MS4 control site but means for EPT and other core metrics at this site were most often similar to non-urban control sites based on analysis of variance (ANOVA). MS4 transitional sites with active development in their watersheds were partially-supporting in their impairment status, and EPT metrics had lower means and generally more variability than control sites. Temporal trends indicate non-urban control and MS4 control sites consistently meet fully-supporting impairment status based on overall MSCI scores, but no study sites currently meet regional expectations (as defined by state reference streams) for either of the EPT metrics. Results indicate that Missouri and Kansas biocriteria for both EPT metrics are not consistently being met at any stream sites in the Kansas City metro area, including fully-supporting control sites and MS4 streams that receive stormwater runoff in watersheds with urban development that is well-established or currently transitioning to urban or suburban land uses.

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Evaluation of EPT macroinvertebrate metrics in small streams located within the non-connected stormwater management region of Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Poulton

Tao²

2019

Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science

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“…To characterize water-quality and biological community response to the WWTF discharge, we sampled three sites along a 10.2 kilometer segment of the Blue River (Figure 1): Kenneth Road (site 1) in Johnson County, Kansas (approximately 3.2 kilometers upstream of the WWTF discharge location and hereafter referred to as the "upstream site"); 151 st Street (site 2) in Jackson County, Missouri (approximately 0.4 kilometers downstream of the WWTF discharge location, and hereafter referred to as one of the "downstream sites"); and Blue Ridge Boulevard (site 3) in Jackson County, Missouri (approximately 6.6 kilometers downstream of the WWTF discharge location and hereafter referred to as the "furthest downstream site"). Within the study reach, urban land use increases from about 20.7% at site 1 to 25.8% percent at site 3, and impervious surface area increases from about 5.8% to 7.7% [69]. The overall study included discrete and continuous water quality monitoring, seasonal sampling of algae and macroinvertebrate communities, determination of stream metabolism, and a stream habitat assessment.…”

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“…The overall study included discrete and continuous water quality monitoring, seasonal sampling of algae and macroinvertebrate communities, determination of stream metabolism, and a stream habitat assessment. This paper reports the results of the macroinvertebrate community assessment, and the remaining data on other parameters can be found in [69].…”

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Responses of Macroinvertebrate Community Metrics to a Wastewater Discharge in the Upper Blue River of Kansas and Missouri, USA

Poulton

Graham²,

Rasmussen³

et al. 2015

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The Blue River Main wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) discharges into the upper Blue River (725 km 2), and is recently upgraded to implement biological nutrient removal. We measured biotic condition upstream and downstream of the discharge utilizing the macroinvertebrate protocol developed for Kansas streams. We examined responses of 34 metrics to determine the best indicators for discriminating site differences and for predicting biological condition. Significant differences between sites upstream and downstream of the discharge were identified for 15 metrics in April and 12 metrics in August. Upstream biotic condition scores were significantly greater than scores at both downstream sites in April (p = 0.02), and in August the most downstream site was classified as non-biologically supporting. Thirteen EPT taxa (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera) considered intolerant of degraded stream quality were absent at one or both downstream sites. Increases in tolerance metrics and filtering macroinvertebrates, and a decline in ratio of scrapers to filterers all indicated effects of increased nutrient enrichment. Stepwise regressions identified several significant models containing a suite of metrics with low redundancy (R 2 = 0.90-0.99). Based on the rapid decline in biological condition downstream of the discharge, the level of nutrient removal resulting from the facility upgrade (10%-20%) was not enough to mitigate negative effects on macroinvertebrate communities.

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“…Christensen and others (2006), updated, and new regression models and summary statistics for continuous concentration computations for the North Fork Ninnescah River upstream from Cheney Reservoir (site 07144780), south-centralKansas, 1999through 2009. Christensen and others (2006, updated, and new regression models and summary statistics for continuous concentration computations for the North Fork Ninnescah River upstream from Cheney Reservoir (site 07144780), south-centralKansas, 1999through 2009.-Continued Christensen and others (2006, updated, and new regression models and summary statistics for continuous concentration computations for the North Fork Ninnescah River upstream from Cheney Reservoir (site 07144780), south-centralKansas, 1999through 2009.-Continued Christensen and others (2006, updated, and new regression models and summary statistics for continuous concentration computations for the North Fork Ninnescah River upstream from Cheney Reservoir (site 07144780), south-centralKansas, 1999through 2009 …”

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Continuous real-time water-quality monitoring and regression analysis to compute constituent concentrations and loads in the North Fork Ninnescah River upstream from Cheney Reservoir, south-central Kansas, 1999–2012

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Graham²,

Gatotho³

2013

Scientific Investigations Report

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Cheney Reservoir, located in south-central Kansas, is the primary water supply for the city of Wichita. The U.S. Geological Survey has operated a continuous real-time water-quality monitoring station since 1998 on the North Fork Ninnescah River, the main source of inflow to Cheney Reservoir. Continuously measured water-quality physical properties include streamflow, specific conductance, pH, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. Discrete water-quality samples were collected during 1999 through 2009 and analyzed for sediment, nutrients, bacteria, and

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Effects of wastewater effluent discharge and treatment facility upgrades on environmental and biological conditions of the upper Blue River, Johnson County, Kansas and Jackson County, Missouri, January 2003 through March 2009

Abstract: Graphs showing percent low and moderate oxygen tolerant diatoms, oligosaprobic and beta-mesosaprobic diatoms, eutrophic diatoms, nitrogenheterotrophic diatoms, and Bahls Index values at each biological sampling site on the upper Blue River during April

Cited by 9 publications

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Evaluation of EPT macroinvertebrate metrics in small streams located within the non-connected stormwater management region of Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Evaluation of EPT macroinvertebrate metrics in small streams located within the non-connected stormwater management region of Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Responses of Macroinvertebrate Community Metrics to a Wastewater Discharge in the Upper Blue River of Kansas and Missouri, USA

Continuous real-time water-quality monitoring and regression analysis to compute constituent concentrations and loads in the North Fork Ninnescah River upstream from Cheney Reservoir, south-central Kansas, 1999–2012

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