Black River, Ohio

Black River, Ohio, contaminated area, total PAHs ... 

West, W.R., P.A. Smith, G.M. Booth, S.A. Wise, and M.L. Lee. 1986. Determination of genotoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a sediment from the Black River (Ohio). Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 15 241-249. 

Baumann, P.C. and Harshbarger, J.C. (1998) Long-term trends in liver neoplasm epizootics of brown bullhead in the Black river, Ohio. Environ. Monito. Assess., 51, 213-223. 

Steevens, J.A. Bauman, P.C. Jones, S.B. 1996, A comparison of (3-adrenoceptors and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in tissues of brown bullhead catfish Ameiurus nebulosus from die Black River and Old Woman Creek Ohio. Environ. Toxciol. Chem. 15 1551-1554. 

Sediments in the lower Black River (Lorain, Ohio) are heavily polluted with metals and PAHs and are believed to be the cause of the high incidence of liver tumors in the local population of brown bullheads (Baumann et al. 1982). Concentrations of PAHs range from 4.8 to 390 mg/kg (IJC 1989c). 

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