Niagara River

Maguire RJ, Kuntz KW, Hale EJ. 1983. Chlorinated hydrocarbons in the surface microlayer of the Niagara River. J Great Lakes Res 9 281-286. 

Jaffe R, RA Hites (1985) Identification of new, fluorinated biphenyls in the Niagara River Lake Ontario area. Environ Sci Technol 19 736-740. 

Oliver, B.G. (1987b) Fate of some chlorobenzenes from the Niagara River in Lake Ontario. In Sources and Fates of Aquatic Pollutants. Hite, R.A., Eisenreich, S.J., Eds., pp. 471 -89, Advances in Chemistry Series 216, Am. Chem. Soc., Washington, D.C. 

Richman L, Somers K (2005) Can we use zebra and quagga mussels for biomonitoring contaminants in the Niagara River Water Air Soil Pollut 167 155-178... 

Foley, R.E. and G.R. Batcheller. 1988. Organochlorine contaminants in common goldeneye wintering on the Niagara River. Jour. Wildl. Manage. 52 441-445. 

Suns, K., G.R. Craig, G. Crawford, G.A. Rees, H. Tosine, and J. Osborne. 1983. Organochlorine contaminant residues in spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius) from the Niagara River. Jour. Great Lakes Res. 9 335-340. 

Halfon, E. 1987. Modeling of mirex loadings to the bottom sediments of Lake Ontario within the Niagara River plume. Jour. Great Lakes Res. 13 18-23. 

Niagara River 1991 contaminated sites (Buffalo River, Love Canal) vs. reference site Total PAHs 3.3-5.4 vs. 0.4 26... 

Eufemia, N.A., T.K. Collier, J.E. Stein, D.E. Watson, and R.T. Di Giulio. 1997. Biochemical responses to sediment-associated contaminants in brown bullhead (Ameriurus nebulosus) from the Niagara River ecosystem. Ecotoxicology 6 13-34. 

Allan, R. J. (1994). Transport and Fate of Persistent Toxic Organic Chemicals in Aquatic Ecosystems the Niagara River to St. Lawrence River Estuary Example. In Hydrological, Chemical a. Biological Processes of Transformation a. Transport of Contaminants in Aquatic Environments, Proc. of the Rostov-on-Don symposium. May 1993, IAHS Publication, 219, pp. 21-32. 

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Driscoll MS, Hassett JP, Fish CL, et al. 1991. Extraction efficiencies of organochlorine compounds from Niagara River (New York, USA) water. Environ Sci Technol 25(8) 1432-1439. 

Durham RW, Oliver BG. 1983. History of Lake Ontario (Canada, USA) contamination from the Niagara river by sediment radiodating and chlorinated hydrocarbon analysis. Journal of Great Lakes Research 9(2) 160-168. 

El-Shaarawi AH, Esterby SR, Warry ND, et al. 1985. Evidence of contaminant loading to Lake Ontario from the Niagara River, USA, Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42(7) 1278-1289. 

Mudroch A, Williams D. 1989. Suspended sediments and the distribution of bottom sediments in the Niagara River. Journal of Great Lakes Research 15(3) 427-436. 

Oliver BG, Charlton MN. 1984. Chlorinated organic contaminants on settling particulates in the Niagara River vicinity of Lake Ontario. Environmental Science and Technology 18 903-908. 

Oliver BG, Nicol KD. 1984. Chlorinated contaminants in the Niagara River, 1981-1983. Sci Total Environ 39 57-70. 

Hites 1978, 1979). The annual mean concentration of phenol in water from the lower Mississippi River was 1.5 ppb (EPA 1980). River water in an unspecified location in the United States was reported to contain 10-100 ppb of phenol (Jungclaus et al. 1978). Phenol was detected, but not quantified, in a Niagara River watershed (Elder et al. 1981) and in 2 of 110 raw water samples analyzed during the National Organic Monitoring Survey (EPA 1980). In the STORET database, 7% of 2,181 data points for U.S. surface waters were positive for the presence of phenol the mean and range of the reported concentrations were 533 ppb and 0.002-46,700 ppb, respectively (EPA 1988c). 

Hoff RM, Chan K. 1987. Measurement of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the air along the Niagara River. Environ Sci Technol 21 556-561. 

Hexachlorobutadiene has been detected in some surface waters but the incidence of detection is low. It was detected in 0.2% of 593 ambient water samples in the STORE database with a median level for all samples of less than 10 ppb (Staples et al. 1985). Hexachlorobutadiene was detected in 1 of 204 surface water sites sampled across the United States with a concentration of 22 ppb (Ewing et al. 1977). Low levels of hexachlorobutadiene were detected in the Niagara River at 0.82 ppt (Oliver and Charlton 1984). Hexachlorobutadiene was not detected in rainwater (Pankow et al. 1984) or urban storm water runoff (Cole et al. 1984) in a number of U.S. cities. It has not been detected in open ocean waters however, the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico were reported to contain 3-15 ppt (Sauer 1981). 

Hexachlorobutadiene adsorbs to sediments in contaminated water. Sediments from the Niagara River were found to contain 2.9-11 ig/kg (Oliver and Charlton 1984). Sediments from the Great Lakes were reported to contains levels of hexachlorobutadiene typically ranging from 0.08 to 120 i g/kg (Fox et al. 1983 Oliver and Bourbonniere 1985 Oliver and Charlton 1984). Data regarding the levels of hexachlorobutadiene in soils were not located. Hexachlorobutadiene was not detectable in any of 196 sediment samples reported on the STORE database (Staples et al. 1985). The median detection limit was <500 ppb. 

Fox ME, Carey JH, Oliver BG. 1983. Compartmental distribution of organochlorine contaminants in the Niagara River and the western basin of Lake Ontario. J Great Lakes Res 9 287-294. 

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