An assessment of chemical contaminants detected in passive water samplers deployed in the St. Thomas east end reserves (STEER)

STEER stormwater contaminants report

Pait, Anthony S.

Hartwell, S. Ian

Mason, Andrew L.

Warner, Robert A. (Robert Andrew), 1951-

Jeffrey, Christopher Francis, 1965-

Apeti, Dennis A.

Pittman, Simon

United States, National Ocean Service

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)

United States, National Ocean Service

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.)

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)

2013

This report is the second in a series from a project to assess land-based sources of pollution (LBSP) and effects in the St. Thomas East End Reserves (STEER) in St. Thomas, USVI, and is the result of a collaborative effort between NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, the USVI Department of Planning and Natural Resources, the University of the Virgin Islands, and The Nature Conservancy. Passive water samplers (POCIS) were deployed in the STEER in February 2012. Developed by the US Geological Survey (USGS) as a tool to detect the presence of water soluble contaminants in the environment, POCIS samplers were deployed in the STEER at five locations. In addition to the February 2012 deployment, the results from an earlier POCIS deployment in May 2010 in Turpentine Gut, a perennial freshwater stream which drains to the STEER, are also reported. A total of 26 stormwater contaminants were detected at least once during the February 2012 deployment in the STEER. Detections were high enough to estimate ambient water concentrations for nine contaminants using USGS sampling rate values. From the May 2010 deployment in Turpentine Gut, 31 stormwater contaminants were detected, and ambient water concentrations could be estimated for 17 compounds".

Conservation

Coral reef ecology

Detection

Equipment and supplies

Management

Pollution

Water

Water quality management

United States Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas

NOS (National Ocean Service)

NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)

CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)

Technical Memorandum

NOAA technical memorandum NOS NCCOS ; 157

This report is the second in a series from a project to assess land-based sources of pollution (LBSP) and effects in the St. Thomas East End Reserves (STEER) in St. Thomas, USVI, and is the result of a collaborative effort between NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, the USVI Department of Planning and Natural Resources, the University of the Virgin Islands, and The Nature Conservancy. Passive water samplers (POCIS) were deployed in the STEER in February 2012. Developed by the US Geological Survey (USGS) as a tool to detect the presence of water soluble contaminants in the environment, POCIS samplers were deployed in the STEER at five locations. In addition to the February 2012 deployment, the results from an earlier POCIS deployment in May 2010 in Turpentine Gut, a perennial freshwater stream which drains to the STEER, are also reported. A total of 26 stormwater contaminants were detected at least once during the February 2012 deployment in the STEER. Detections were high enough to estimate ambient water concentrations for nine contaminants using USGS sampling rate values. From the May 2010 deployment in Turpentine Gut, 31 stormwater contaminants were detected, and ambient water concentrations could be estimated for 17 compounds".

2013

NOS (National Ocean Service)

NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)

CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)

Library

Public Domain

1936

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