An assessment of water quality, physical habitat, and biological integrity of an urban stream in Wichita, Kansas, prior to restoration improvements (Phase I)

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-359

  Davis, N M ^a   Weaver, V ^b   Parks, K ^a,c   Lydy, Michael J ^a,c  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Water and Sewer Department   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

CHANNELIZATION; DEGRADATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; STREAM; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EROSION; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; HABITAT QUALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENTATION; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FISHES; FRESH WATER; INVERTEBRATES; KANSAS; PESTICIDES; URBAN RENEWAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; RIPARIA;

EID: 0344838623     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-002-2043-0     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Allan JD (1995) Stream Ecology. Chapman and Hall, London
2. Barbour MT, Gerritsen J, Snyder BD, Stribling JB (1999) Rapid Bioassessment Protocols for Use in Streams and Wadeable Rivers: Periphyton, Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Fish, second edn. EPA/841/B-99/002. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, DC
3. Belden JB, Hofelt CS, Lydy MJ (2000) Analysis of multiple pesticides in urban storm water using solid phase extraction. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 38:7-10
4. Belden JB, Lydy MJ (2001) Impact of atrazine on organophosphate insecticide toxicity. Environ Toxicol Chem 19:2266-2274
5. Brown KB (2000) Urban Stream Restoration Practices: An Initial Assessment. The Center for Watershed Protection, Elliot City, MD
6. Clersceri LS, Greenberg AE, Eaton AD (1998) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation, Washington, DC
7. Cross FB, Collins JT (1995) Fishes in Kansas. University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence, KS
8. Davenport TE, Kelly MH (1983) Water Resource Data and Preliminary Trend Analysis for the Highland Silver Lake Monitoring and Evaluation Project. IEPA/WPC/83-013. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Water Pollution Control, Springfield, IL
9. Hax CL, Golladay SW (1998) Flow disturbance of macroinvertebrates inhabiting sediments and woody debris in a prairie stream. Am Mid Nat 139:210-214
10. Hilsenhoff WL (1988) Rapid field assessment of organic pollution with a family-level biotic index. J N Am Benthol Soc 7:65-68
11. Karr J (1991) Biological integrity: a long-neglected aspect of water resource management. Ecol Appl 1:66-84
12. KDWP (2000) Stream Assessment Protocol. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Pratt, KS
13. KDHE (1998) Kansas Surface Water Quality Standards. KAR 28-16-28b-e. Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Division of Environment
14. Kern K (1992) Rehabilitation of streams in south-west Germany. In: Boon PJ, Calow P, Petts GE (eds) River Conservation and Management. Wiley, Chichester, pp 321-336
15. Lazorchak JM, Klemm DJ, Peck DV (1998) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program - Surface Waters: Field Operations and Methods for Measuring the Ecological Condition of Wadeable Streams. EPA/620/R-94/004F. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC
16. Lydy MJ, Strong AJ, Simon TP (2000) Development of an index of biotic integrity for the Little Arkansas River Basin, Kansas. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 39:523-530
17. Moses T, Morris S (1998) Environmental constraints to urban stream restoration: part I. Public Works 129:45-48
18. Platts WS, Megahan WF, Minshall GW (1983) Methods for evaluating Stream, Riparian and Biotic Conditions. General Technical Report INT-138. U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ogden, UT
19. Schleiger SL (2000) Use of an index of biotic integrity to detect effects of land uses on stream fish communities in west-central Georgia. Trans Am Fish Soc 129:1118-1133
20. Schlosser IJ (1987) A conceptual framework for fish communities in small warmwater streams. In: Matthews WJ, Heins DC (eds) Community and Evolutionary Ecology of North American Stream Fishes. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, pp 17-24
21. Shields FD Jr, Knight SS, Cooper CM (1994) Effects of channel incision on base flow stream habitat and fishes. Environ Manage 18:43-57
22. Sovern DT, Washington PM (1997) Effects of urban growth on stream habitat. In: Roesner LA (ed) Effects of Watershed Development and Management on Aquatic Ecosystems. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, pp 163-177
23. Yoder CO, Rankin ET (1997) Assessing condition and status of aquatic life designated uses in urban and suburban watersheds. In: Roesner LA (ed) Effects of Watershed Development and Management on Aquatic ecosystems. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, pp 201-227
24. USEPA (1995) Ecological Restoration: A Tool to Manage Stream Quality. EPA/841/F-95/007. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Washington, DC
25. USEPA (1997) Urbanization and Streams: Studies of Hydrologic Impacts. EPA/841/R-97/009. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, DC
26. USEPA (2001) Ambient Water Quality Criteria Recommendations - Rivers and Streams in Nutrient Ecoregion V. EPA/822/B-01/014. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, DC
27. Welch EB, Jacoby JM, May CW (1998) Stream quality. In: Bilby RE, Naiman RJ (eds) River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion. Springer-Verlag. New York, pp 69-93