2015 Monitoring Activities:Summer Water Quality Conditions

Technical Committee MeetingOctober 6-7, 2015

Agenda Item #5

2015 Sampling Sites

May June July

August September

Summer 2015 Monthly Precipitation Relative to Normal

Percent of Normal Rainfal (2015)

% 0.00 - 50.00% 50.01 - 100.00% 100.01 - 200.00% 200.01 - 300.00% 300.01 - 530.00

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260 Evansville (ORM 791)Observed Long-Term

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Bimonthly Sampling

Bimonthly Sampling 2015 vs Previous Decade: TP (mg/L)

Box Plot of a ll O hio River Stations Jan-Jul10-Y r TP vs 2015 TP (mg/L)

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Bimonthly Sampling 2015 vs Previous Decade: T-N (mg/L)

Box Plot of all O hio River Stations Jan-Jul10-Y r T-N vs 2015 T-N (mg/L)

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Clean Metals Sampling

WQC Violations Clean Metals

• Clean Metals data July 2014-May 2015

Mercury and State Iron Criteria Violations

SiteName Mile Point# THg

Violations# Fe

ViolationsNew Cumberland 54.4 0 0Pike Island 84.2 0 1Hannibal 126.4 0 1Willow Island 161.8 0 1Belleville 203.9 0 1R.C. Byrd 279.2 0 1Greenup 341 1 1Meldahl 436.2 1 1Markland 531.5 0 0McAlpine 606.8 0 1Cannelton 720.7 1 1Newburgh 776 1 1J.T. Myers 846 1 0Smithland 918.5 0 0L&D 52 938.9 0 1

MeHg BAF and Tributary Sampling•MeHg BAFs under development at two locations: (green dots)

• 4 of 12 events complete. Expected finish of data collection July 2016.

•Tributary Hg & MeHg Mass Load Development (Blue Dots)

• Data collection October 2015 to September 2016

Contact Recreation Sampling

• Bacteria samples are collected April 1 through October 31.

• Samples are collected at an upstream and downstream location in Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Huntington, Cincinnati, Louisville and Evansville.

• Five rounds of sampling are completed monthly for each urban community sampling location and analyzed for E. coli using Membrane Filtration. Those five samples are then used to produce a monthly Geometric Mean which shall not exceed 130CFU/100mL and shall not exceed 240CFU/100mL in any single sample.

Contact Recreation Monitoring

Percent Exceeded April-September 2015 Pittsburgh Wheeling Huntington Cincinnati Louisville Evansville

Monthly Geometric Mean 66% 33% 0% 66% 50% 50%

Single Sample Max 36% 20% 13% 36% 17% 33%

Pittsburgh-4.3 Wheeling-92.8 Huntington-314.8 Cincinnati-477.5 Louisville-619.3 Evansville-793.70

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2015 E.coli Monthly Geometric Mean

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130CFU/100mL

In Cincinnati we also analyze for Enterococcus using Enterolert and for E.coli/Total Coliform using Colilert at three cross-sections (nine sites).

Special Projects*

Cincinnati Triathlon The Great Ohio River Swim Louisville Ironman*Currently postponed due to the HAB

Contact Recreation Monitoring

D.O. and Temperature Monitoring

Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Monitoring

• Dissolved oxygen (D.O.) and temperature is monitored by the United States Army Corp of Engineers, electric utility/hydropower agencies or ORSANCO for the assessment of aquatic life water quality criteria.

• The average D.O. concentration shall be at least 5.0mg/L for each calendar day. Both Markland and Smithland had days that fell below 5.0mg/L. (Graphs to follow)

• The allowable temperature varies each month and ranges from 71°-89°F. Temperatures never exceeded the criteria due to the cool summer the Ohio River Basin experienced this year. (Graphs to follow)

1-May 11-May 21-May 31-May 10-Jun 20-Jun 30-Jun 10-Jul 20-Jul 30-Jul 9-Aug 19-Aug 29-Aug 8-Sep 18-Sep 28-Sep5

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12Montgomery (RMI 31.7) Dissolved Oxygen

DO m

g/L

1-May 11-May 21-May 31-May 10-Jun 20-Jun 30-Jun 10-Jul 20-Jul 30-Jul 9-Aug 19-Aug 29-Aug 8-Sep 18-Sep 28-Sep4.5

55.5

66.5

77.5

88.5

9Markland (RMI 531.5) Dissolved Oxygen

DO m

g/L

1-May 11-May 21-May 31-May 10-Jun 20-Jun 30-Jun 10-Jul 20-Jul 30-Jul 9-Aug 19-Aug 29-Aug 8-Sep 18-Sep 28-Sep4.5

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8 Smithland (919) Dissolved Oxygen

DO m

g/L

5.0 mg/L

5.0 mg/L

5.0 mg/L

1-May 11-May 21-May 31-May 10-Jun 20-Jun 30-Jun 10-Jul 20-Jul 30-Jul 9-Aug 19-Aug 29-Aug 8-Sep 18-Sep 28-Sep55

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Wabash and Algae/Nutrients Program

Algae/Nutrients Program

• Sampling at water plants ended June 30, 2014• Re-purposed funds to collect nutrients at macroinvertebrate

sites• Sampling for HABs on an “as-needed” basis.• No algae blooms reported or detected

– OK, maybe that’s not true. Agenda Item 10c.

Dissolved Oxygen

• Number of days with Average DO <5mg/L = 1• Number of days with any measurement <4mg/L = 4• Similar to 2013

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Biochemical Oxygen Demand

• Identified as a contributor to low DO in the Smithland Pool.

• Zero detections on the Ohio River• Similar to previous years

07/02/14 07/16/14 07/30/14 08/13/14 08/27/140

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Probabilistic Pool Survey Sites

•15 random 500m sites per pool• Fish Community• Macroinvertebrate Community

• Continuous DO & Temp logger• Nutrients & Chlorophyll A

• Instream & Riparian Habitat

Other

39 Fish Tissue Samples Riverwide

Organics Detection System Sites

Organics Detection System • Balance remaining as of June 30, 2015:

– ~$1.1M remaining total funding– Sept 30, 2016 is current project deadline– Expected major expenditures in remaining grant

term• Service contracts for GC/MSD & IC components• Replace 2 MSD at West View/ Dupont• Contractual Services for Websites • Replace computer systems, software updates• Build up consumables inventory• On-going program costs

• Explore adding other data/information components to website (Algae, utility and other metadata); meeting with contractors in mid October to discuss

Organics Detection System • 14*/33 (42%) surface water DW facilities are ODS host site

participants; 2 are industrial host sites, and HQ (17 total locations).– *NKY Water can also analyze VOC’s upon request– Recently approached by Henderson to become involved with ODS program

• 3 conventional GC systems installed late 2014 AEP-St. Albans, Portsmouth, Paducah• 2 GC/MSD systems installed: Wheeling & HQ• 9 sites are running more than one sample/day

– All sites will be running 4-6 samples per day by end of grant• Pittsburgh to become active ODS site this fall 2015 with process GC

capabilities (relocation of Wheeling unit) – Site inspection performed, lab modifications necessary by PWSA

before installation can occur (Fall 2015)• Old instrumentation donated to Thomas More Biological Field

Station, NKY Water, UC Cincinnati, IL American (Cairo) and P&T parts to Metropolitan Sewer District

Organics Detection System• 3 Laboratory renovations/relocations for ODS

host sites; staff handled instrument relocation, start up and re-calibration– Additionally Staff installed “old” ODS systems at NKY

Water & TMC Biology field station and provided training & start up

• ODS renovation started in 2009; components starting to show wear, minor repairs (so far) becoming more frequent, taking advantage of remote diagnosis and troubleshooting capabilities to reduce staff travel time.– Mother boards– Auto sampler (alignment, needles, incorrect volume

draw, blocked flow path etc.)– Software issues

Organics Detection System • ODS travel related repairs (non-warranty,

non-maintenance agreement) – 30 hours computer related– 26.5 hours diagnose, non repairable (shipped

to vendor)– 9 hours Autosampler related

• Anticipate more frequent repair trips as systems age – Only the GCMSD portion of instrumentation is

covered by Maintenance Agreements

Year # Raw Water Samples

% Utilization

2015 (Jan 1. – Aug 30) 3645/16 sites 88.6%

2014 (Jan 1 – Dec 31) 5162/16 sites 88%

2013 (Jan 1 – Dec 31) 4771/15 sites 87%

2012 (Jan 1 – Dec 31) 4589/15 sites 88%

2011 (Jan 1 – Dec 31) 4228/13 sites 89 %

2010 (Jan 1 – Dec 31) 3842/13 sites 81 %

Organics Detection System Performance Operations

Operational 88.6%

Staffing 6.3%

Renovations 3.4% Instrumentation 6.3%

•From January-August 2015 3,645 river water samples were analyzed•% System Utilization (#river samples/#days) * (#sites) * 100 = 88.6%•Overall, ODS sites were unable to run daily river water 11.4% of the time. Leading causes of downtime (>1 day) were related to:

-Staffing issues (6.3%)-Major Laboratory renovations/relocation (11.4%)-Instrument failure (1.7%)

Organics Detection System

Organics Detection System • Coordinated ODS to respond to February

2015• Bakken Crude CSX train derailment for WV

sites– ODS already calibrated to detect Bakken Crude

BTEX components– St. Albans, Huntington, Ashland, Portsmouth– No spill related detections were reported.