Contaminant Loading Limits for a Major North Temperate River System: A Benthic Ecorisk Assessment Approach

March 1, 1999

Journal Article

Contaminant Loading Limits for a Major North Temperate River System: A Benthic Ecorisk Assessment Approach

Abstract

Sediment quality guidelines and an ecological risk assessment approach were used to calculate heavy metal loading limits for the Columbia River, the second largest river system in the contiguous United States.

Revised: July 18, 2002 | Published: March 1, 1999

Citation

Johnson V.G. 1999. Contaminant Loading Limits for a Major North Temperate River System: A Benthic Ecorisk Assessment Approach. Advances in Environmental Research 3, no. 1:28-48. PNNL-SA-31590.