Oklahoma Ecological Services Field Office
Southwest Region

Environmental Contaminants


The comment period for the Grand Lake Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan has been extended until June 10, 2013. Please continue to submit comments to Suzanne Dunn at suzanne_dunn@fws.gov

NRDAR Documents

  • Tar Creek
    • Pre-Assessment
      • Screening Level Migratory Bird Assessment for the Tri-State Mining District (PDF, 60 KB)
      • Pre-Assessment Screen for the Tar Creek Superfund Site (PDF, 812 KB)
    • Assessment
      • Final Assessment Plan for Tar Creek, Ottawa County, Oklahoma (PDF, 1.4 MB)
    • Sampling Plans
      • SAP for the 2008 Sediment Quality Evaluation of Grand Lake (PDF, 600 KB)
      • SAP for Assessing Volume of Metals in Stream and Floodplain Sediments within the Tri-State Mining District (PDF, 2.1 MB)
      • SAP for the 2009 Tri-State Transition Zone Assessment Study (PDF, 195 KB)
      • SAP for Concentrations of Heavy Metals by Six Treaty Tribes 2009/2010(PDF, 2.1 MB)
    • Final Reports
      • Tri State Transition Zone Assessment Study (PDF, 2.5 MB)
      • Effects of mining-derived metals on riffle-dwelling crayfish in southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas of the Tri-State Mining District, USA (PDF, 1.8 MB)
      • TSMD Crayfish Report, Appendix A (PDF, 100 KB)
      • 2008 Sediment Chemistry Results (PDF, 110 KB)
      • Adverse health effects in Canada geese from zinc and lead TSMD (PDF, 650 KB)
      • Grand Lake Sediment Toxicity Report (Ingersoll et al.; PDF, 1.6 MB)
      • Occurrence and Trends in Bottom Sediments in Grand Lake (PDF, 1.8 MB)
      • Development and Evaluation of Sediment and Pore-Water Toxicity Thresholds to Support Sediment Quality Assessments in the Tri-State Mining District (TSMD), Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas, Vol. I (PDF, 1.8 MB) and Vol. II (PDF, 2 MB)
      • Ozark Cavefish Distribution Related to Mining and Water Quality in the Tri-State Mining District of Jasper and Newton Counties, Missouri (PDF, 2.8 MB)
      • Neosho Madtom Habitat Assessment Complete, Tulsa comments (PDF, 1 MB)
      • Draft Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan (PDF, 3 MB)
    • Restoration
      • Partial Restoration Plan for the Tar Creek Superfund Site (PDF, 1.4 MB)

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  • Other NRDAR
    • Amended Preassessment Screen: National Zinc Corporation Site (PDF, 855 KB)
    • Double Eagle Restoration Plan And Environmental Assessment (PDF, 866 KB)
    • Farmland Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (FINAL: PDF, 227 KB)
    • Okmulgee Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (FINAL: PDF, 1.3 MB)

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    NRDAR Documents

    Last updated: April 11, 2013
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