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Post by Eugene on Jan 8, 2010 13:24:50 GMT -5
Maybe, but I'd be looking more to consume than provide.
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Post by Eugene on Sept 28, 2009 9:47:43 GMT -5
Yikes! CONTACT: Mick Hans, 312-353-5050, hans.mick@epa.gov Susan Pastor, 312-353-1325, pastor.susan@epa.gov (Ohio EPA) Dina Pierce, 614-644-2160 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-OPA180 EPA adds Ohio's Little Scioto River to Superfund National Priorities List (CHICAGO - Sept. 23, 2009) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Little Scioto River, near Marion, Ohio, to the Superfund National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. A public comment period on the proposed listing of the site ended in June. The Little Scioto River lies to the west of Marion, in Marion Township. It flows into the Scioto River, a major tributary of the Ohio River. A four-mile stretch of river sediment is contaminated with coal tar creosote containing hazardous polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, from the former Baker Wood facility. Since 1992, Ohio Department of Health has maintained a heath advisory against swimming, wading and eating fish from this stretch of the river. Using a mix of U.S. Coast Guard Oil Pollution Act and Superfund emergency removal funds, EPA conducted substantial excavation work from 2002 to 2006, removing 68,000 tons of sediment along about two miles of the river as well as a polluted shoreline area. With placement of the site on the NPL, the Little Scioto River is now eligible for additional cleanup resources and long-term planning. In June 2009, EPA began a comprehensive, updated site investigation in consultation with Ohio EPA. New sampling of aquatic and ecological conditions will be conducted in Spring 2010. Following the sampling, EPA anticipates proposing a final comprehensive cleanup plan for the site in 2012. Other EPA Region 5 sites added to the NPL today: the Lane Street Ground Water Contamination site in Elkhart, Ind. and the Amcast Industrial Corp. site in Cedarburg, Wis. Two other sites in EPA Region 5 were proposed for the NPL: Chemetco, a closed steel mill in Hartford, Ill., and Gratiot County Golf Course, a contaminated soil site in St. Louis, Mich. Nationally, 11 new sites were added to the NPL and 10 sites were proposed for addition to the list. Under the NPL process, sites are first proposed and public comments considered before a determination is made to formally add a site to the list. To date, there have been 1,607 sites on the NPL. Of these sites, 336 have been deleted resulting in 1,271 sites currently on the NPL (including the 11 new final sites added in today's rulemaking). With the proposal of the 10 new sites, there are 66 proposed sites awaiting final agency action: 61 in the general Superfund section and five in the federal facilities section. There are a total of 1,337 final and proposed sites. Links to the Federal Register notice, information on submitting comments on the proposed sites, background on the NPL process and summaries of the sites newly added or proposed are at www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/current.htm. Detailed information about the Little Scioto River site is at www.epa.gov/region5/sites/littlescioto.
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Post by Eugene on Sept 9, 2009 14:20:25 GMT -5
In case any of you are (or are parents of) college students with aspirations to be fisheries biologists: For a third year, I am very pleased to offer Stone Lab's Workshop on Fish-Sampling Techniques of Ohio’s State Agencies in collaboration with staff biologists at the Ohio EPA and ODNR-Division of Wildlife. Our goals in offering this workshop are twofold: 1) to make college students in fisheries-related fields better able to compete for seasonal student positions within natural resource agencies and 2) to provide our Ohio state agencies with a better trained, entry-level workforce. The workshop runs 3-4 October 2009 at OSU's F.T. Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie. Total fee is the paltry sum of $175. Registration deadline is 23 September 2009, but on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation is limited to ten students, and preferential enrollment is given to undergraduate students, but anybody is welcome to apply (applicants not currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program will be placed on a wait list until the registration deadline). Because of the limited size of this workshop, please contact me before submitting your application to determine if there is still room available (614-247-6684). Also, feel free to distribute this note wherever you deem it appropriate. Click here for details: stonelab.osu.edu/courses/noncredit/74/
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Post by Eugene on May 7, 2009 15:45:32 GMT -5
This slight revision to the VHS proclamation came because a member at another forum wrote to alert me to the fact that there was still a fair amount of bait being netted on Lake Erie waters and subsequently used inland. This is particularly problematic regarding spring-caught gizzard shad, frozen fresh to be later used as cut bait for catfish inland. The revised Ohio Department of Agriculture proclamation prohibiting the movement of dead baitfish was signed Monday, and the following press release issued today:
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Post by Eugene on May 6, 2009 9:04:02 GMT -5
Let me know how you do. My Saturdays are almost always booked way in advance, but if you don't mind company, and I happen to be free (alas, not likely), please do let me know.
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Post by Eugene on May 5, 2009 9:05:25 GMT -5
Awesome. Regarding mitigating slick banks, one of the student clubs I advise, TerrAqua, is working with the Friends of Alum Creek and Tributaries (FACT) to replant some of the recovered stream bank.
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Post by Eugene on Apr 23, 2009 15:31:38 GMT -5
For anybody still thinking about VHS, I have confirmed with the state veterinarians at the Dept. of Ag. They are having their legal department revise the Ohio proclamation to forbid the inland use of dead bait species from the Lake Erie zone that are on the VHS-susceptible list. The new order could be released within a week. Hopefully this will help to limit future inland detections like Clear Fork.
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Post by Eugene on Apr 15, 2009 9:02:59 GMT -5
The presentation was decent, but definitely from a geophysical/engineering perspective of restoration: flow and transport of sediment, substrate stabilization, etc. There were some biological support data at the end. Those data did demonstrate benefits of dam removal, but the presented biological data were pretty rudimentary and strictly descriptive without any effort at hypothesis testing. I did enjoy it, turnout was tremendous, and the stout was very stout. Mmmm...
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Post by Eugene on Apr 14, 2009 13:48:53 GMT -5
At this point, it's looking more likely that I'll be at the COFF meeting than actually fishing. All will depend upon the blessing of Mrs. Eugene.
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Post by Eugene on Apr 10, 2009 14:41:09 GMT -5
Certainly interested. I may try to make it. I think that's the only evening I have open in the coming week, but already told a friend I might try chasing some white bass with him then.
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Post by Eugene on Feb 27, 2009 9:32:44 GMT -5
Now that the project is completed, I lectured on the results of Ohio Sea Grant's (i.e., Tory, Jen, and I), USFWS's, and Ohio Dept. of Ag.'s monitoring for this fish disease at U. Toledo's Lake Erie Center in January. WGTE TV just posted the lecture at their site. Enjoy! www.knowledgestream.org/kstream/index.asp?item_id=1979Of course, smallmouth bass are on the susceptible list.
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Post by Eugene on Feb 9, 2009 13:17:36 GMT -5
There is still some controversy focused on lowhead dam removal on occasion, the latest debated being the 5th Ave. Dam on the Olentangy R. near OSU. I have my own opinions regarding that particular slab of concrete, and will offer as much detail as you can stomach if asked. Rather than launch into my own rant, consider this general-info video recently released by the Division of Wildlife: www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/21463/Default.aspx
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Post by Eugene on Nov 10, 2008 16:38:30 GMT -5
Of course, streams are very different than lakes. Populations in lotic systems tend to be limited very differently than populations in lentic systems. Like every other fisheries management tool of the world, catch and release is not a panacea for all management concerns. The point I really want to make is that responsible harvest is possible. Responsible anglers who do harvest should know how, when, and where to do so in sustainable fashion.
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Post by Eugene on Oct 16, 2008 11:01:38 GMT -5
CONTACT: Phillippa Cannon, 312-353-6218, cannon.phillippa@epa.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 08 - OPA164 EPA sets hearing on change to Ohio water pollution program CHICAGO (Oct. 15, 2008) - The state of Ohio has requested a change in how it administers a federal program to control water pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations. EPA has proposed approving the state's request and will answer questions and listen to comments on its decision Nov. 18 at an open house and a formal public hearing at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road, Columbus. The open house will take place from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and the formal public hearing from 7 to 9 p.m. The public comment period runs until Dec. 16. EPA has reviewed the state's application to transfer control of parts of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System - wastewater discharge - program from Ohio EPA to Ohio Department of Agriculture. EPA has proposed approving the application provided the state changes its laws and rules to resolve issues identified by EPA. The state has asked EPA to allow Ohio Department of Agriculture to administer only that part of the water pollution program that affects concentrated animal feeding operations and storm water runoff from construction of animal feeding operations. Ohio EPA would continue to issue all other wastewater discharge permits. Clean Water Act regulations allow such splitting of programs. Animal feeding operations are agricultural enterprises where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. Concentrated animal feeding operations must have state-issued NPDES permits to lawfully discharge manure, litter, or process wastewater pollutants into lakes, rivers or streams. Ohio's application and related documents are available on EPA's Web site at: www.epa.gov/region5/water/npdestek/odacafo.htm. They are also available for review at ODA's Livestock Environmental Permitting Program office in Reynoldsburg; the Auglaize Soil and Water Conservation District, 110 Industrial Drive Suite G in Wapakoneta; the Wayne Soil and Water Conservation District, 428 West Liberty St., Wooster; and EPA's regional office in Chicago. EPA invites comments on the proposal by Dec. 16 either at the hearing, by mail or through the Web site above. Comments must include the commenter's mailing address. Mailed comments must be postmarked by Dec. 16 and sent to: Matt Gluckman, EPA Region 5 Water Division (WN-16J), 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. Note: If a link above doesn't work, please copy and paste the URL into a browser. View all Region 5 news releases This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Sent by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW · Washington DC 20460 · 202-564-4355
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Post by Eugene on Sept 30, 2008 11:53:19 GMT -5
"Meanmouth" is a common name for hybrids between Micropterus spp., usually referring to a cross between spotted and smallmouth basses.
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