Environmental Contaminants

Reports

New Reports

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)

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

• 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)