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Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Report

Project Summary of the RGSM Health Study Final Report - 199 KB (PDF)

Complete RGSM Health Study Final Report, December 2012 - 22.3 MB (PDF)

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Introduction and Chapter 1

RGSM Health Study Introduction and Chapter 1 Complete except Appendix 1C (Lusk et al 2012) - 5.5 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 1: MRG Basin and RGSM Health Study Area - 1.9 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 2: Six RGSM Health Study Sites along middle Rio Grande - 667 KB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 3: RGSM Health Study Site 1 Bernalillo - 5.3 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 4: RGSM Health Study Site 2 Alameda - 4 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 5: RGSM Health Study Site 3 Los Padillas - 5.8 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 6: RGSM Health Study Site 4 Los Lunas - 4 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 7: RGSM Health Study Site 5 La Joya - 5.5 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Figure 8: RGSM Health Study Site 6 San Antonio - 5.1 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Appendix 1A Figure 9 to 48: Discharge Data with Sampling Events and Fig49 - 418 KB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Appendix 1B Plate 1 to 44: RGSM Health Study Sampling Site Photography - 2.7 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Appendix 1C Table 5.1 to 5.82: Continious Water Quality Monitoring Data - 7.8 MB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Table 1: Site name and locations - 10 KB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Table 2: River Transect data - 46 KB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Table 3: RGSM SeineHaul Data - 187 KB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Table 4: Water Quality Results for Seine Hauls - 60 KB (PDF)
Chapter 1 Table 6 to 13: Final CWQ Summary tables - 399 KB (PDF)
All continuous WQ data with productivity and ER calculations (Lusk 2011) - 15.4 MB (Excel)

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Assessment Complete (Davis and Lusk 2012) - 4.7 MB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2A: Fish Health Assessment Datasheet - 48 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2B: Assessment values table - 27 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2C: Number of Fish used in Fish Health Assessments - 38 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2D: Length tables - 30 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2E: Weight tables - 30 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2F: SSI tables - 32 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2G: HAI Tables - 24 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2H: Anomalies Table - 15 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2I: RGSM HS Fish Health Data - 1.1 MB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2J: Plates 1-58 Photos of RGSM Health Assessments (A Davis USFWS) - 2.3 MB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Appendix 2K: Opercula and Length data from Archival RGSM - 260 KB (PDF)
Chapter 2 Table 1: RGSMHS Site number, name and locations - 10 KB (PDF)

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Chemical residues in RGSM Complete (Lusk 2012) - 3.6 MB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Appendix 3A: Results of Catalog 2020128 inorganics - 107 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Appendix 3B: Results of Catalog 2020128 organics - 693 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Appendix 3C: Complete Catalog 2020128 RGSM HS - 921 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Appendix 3D: Final Inorganic RGSM Data - 39 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Appendix 3E: Final Organic Chemical Data - 258 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Figure 1: MRG Basin and RGSM Health Study Area - 1.9 MB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Figure 2: Six RGSM Health Study Sites along middle Rio Grande - 667 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Table 1: Site name and locations - 10 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Table 2: Chemicals Analyzed in RGSM, MDLs, and abbreviations - 130 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Table 3: Inorganic Contaminants in RGSM Tissue Summary - 49 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Table 4: Element Comparisons for Rio Grande Fish Contaminants - 24 KB (PDF)
Chapter 3 Table 5: Organic Contaminants in RGSM Tissue Summary - 56 KB (PDF)
Final RGSM Tissue Chemical Results (Lusk 2011) - 252 KB (Excel)

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Appendix 4

Appendix 4: Health and Histopathological Evaluation of RGSM from the Rio Grande (Papoulias et al 2009) - 293 KB (PDF)

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Appendix 5

Appendix 5: RGSM Pathogen Assessment Report Complete (Woodland 2012) - 1.5 MB (PDF)

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Health Study Appendix 6

Appendix 6: RGSM MHC alleles and parasite diversity (Osborne and Turner 2009) - 3.9 MB (PDF)

Contaminant Evaluations at the USFWS National Wildlife Refuges and Fish Hatcheries

Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Contaminant Assessment Process Report - 36KB (PDF)
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Contaminants Evalutation - 313KB (PDF)
- Figures - 190KB (PDF)
- Appendix 1 - 330KB (Excel)
- Appendix 2 - 88KB (Excel)
- Appendix 3 - 418KB (Excel)
Contaminant Investigation for Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge, Las Vegas, New Mexico - 91KB (PDF)
Contaminant Investigation of Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge - 73KB (PDF)
Contaminant Survey Of Mescalero And Dexter National Fish Hatcheries In New Mexico - July 1995 (with 1998 Supplemental Sampling Report: Contaminant Survey Of Mescalero And Dexter National Fish Hatcheries In New Mexico - Pg. 67) - 477KB (PDF)
An Investigation of Selenium, Mercury and Lead Concentrations in Sediment and Biota from Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge, Colfax County, New Mexico - 474KB (PDF)

Contaminants Studies

NNLFWQI Report

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency have cooperatively completed a study of methylmercury and other environmental contaminants in water and fish from four lakes on the Navajo Nation.

Full NNLFWQI Report

NNLFWQI Report - 3.02MB (PDF)

NNLFWQI Report in Sections

Cover, Table of Contents, Executive Summary and Introduction of the NNLFWQI Report - 711 KB (PDF)
Environmental Setting of the NNLFWQI Report - 2.01 MB (PDF)
Methods, Results and Discussion of the NNLFWQI Report - 394 KB (PDF)
Conclusions, Recommendations and Literature Cited of the NNLFWQI Report - 105 KB (PDF)

NNLFWQI Report Appendices

Appendix A through Appendix F of the NNLFWQI Report - 176 KB (PDF)
Appendix G of the NNLFWQI Report - 3.14 MB (PDF)
Appendix H of the NNLFWQI Report - 148 KB (PDF)
Appendix I of the NNLFWQI Report - 241 KB (PDF)

Other Studies

Hydrogen Sulfide Monitoring Near Oil and Gas Production Facilities in Southeastern New Mexico and Potential Effects of Hydrogen Sulfide to Migratory Birds and Other Wildlife - 1.2 MB (PDF)
Contaminants Investigation of the White Ranch Roswell New Mexico - 381KB (PDF)
Effects of Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents on Wetlands and Playas in New Mexico - 233KB (PDF)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Water Quality Assessment & Figures and Appendices
- A Water Quality Assessment of Four Intermittent Streams in Los Alamos County, New Mexico - 380KB (PDF)
- All Figures from A Water Quality Assessment - 5.28MB (PDF)
- All Tables from A Water Quality Assessment - 2.16MB (PDF)
- Appendix I Settlement Agreement - 1.09MB (PDF)
- Appendix II Use Study Proposal - 3.3MB (PDF)
- Appendix III NMED Macroinvertebrate Species Lists - 667KB (PDF)
- Appendix IV Data Tables - 2.26MB (PDF)
- Attachment A Chapman and Allert 1998 - 3.3MB (PDF)
- Attachment A Chapman and Allert 1998 Addendum 1 Tissue Analyses - 4.99MB (PDF)
- Attachment A Chapman and Allert 1998 Addendum 2 Radionuclides - 1.33MB (PDF)
- Attachment A Chapman and Allert 1998 Appendix A - 20.8MB (PDF)
- Attachment A Chapman and Allert 1998 Appendices B & C - 1.47MB (PDF)
Organochlorine and Trace Element Contaminant Investigation of the Rio Grande, New Mexico - 2.34MB (PDF)
San Juan River Contaminants Assessment
- Volume 1: Reports & Appendices 1-3 - 18.1MB (PDF)
- Volume 2: Appendices 4-25 - 16.8MB (PDF)
Reconnaissance Investigation of Irrigation Drainage in The San Juan River Area, San Juan County, Northwestern New Mexico - 63KB (PDF)

Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration

Assessment of Heavy Metal Contaminant Levels in Biota and Sediment on the White Ranch, Roswell, New Mexico - 375KB (PDF)
Investigation of Trace Element Contamination from Terreromine Waste - 744KB (PDF)
Molycorp Mine Natural Resource Damage Assessment Pre-Assessment Screen - 817KB (PDF)
Phelps Dodge Mine Complex Natural Resource Damage Assessment Pre-Assessment Screen - 13.8MB (PDF)
Summary of Natural Resource Damage Assessment Restoration Projects at the Cleveland Mill Mine - 15KB (PDF)

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