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- <p>Combined sewer overflows.</p> <p>Ohio River - Water quality.</p> (1)
- <p>Fishes -- Hybridization -- West Virginia.</p> <p>Rhinichthys West Virginia.</p> <p>Watershed ecology -- West Virginia.</p> <p>Environmental impact analysis -- West Virginia.</p> (1)
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Environmental Disturbance And The Distribution Of Rhinichthys Bowersi In West Virginia, Brooke Elizabeth Schlenker
Environmental Disturbance And The Distribution Of Rhinichthys Bowersi In West Virginia, Brooke Elizabeth Schlenker
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The Cheat minnow, Rhinichthys bowersi, has been designated a species of concern by the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources. Mitochondrial DNA analysis (Gladwell 2002) supports the origin of R. bowersi from hybridization between cyprinids R. cataractae and Nocomis micropogon. Previous investigators have hypothesized a relationship between fish hybridization and environmental disturbance. The habitat of R. bowersi has experienced severe environmental degradation from mineral and timber extraction. In this study, environmental quality was compared between stream systems in which parental species of R. bowersi were found with and without resulting hybridization. Environmental quality indicators included biotic diversity and stream structure …
Impact Of The 25th Street Combined Sewer Overflow On The Ohio River, Travis M. Bailey
Impact Of The 25th Street Combined Sewer Overflow On The Ohio River, Travis M. Bailey
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The 25th Street Combined Sewer Overflow was analyzed for total coliforms, Escherichia coli, antibiotic-resistant coliforms and E. coli, and routine water chemistry. The objectives of this study were to enumerate antibiotic resistant bacteria near a CSO, determine the impact of a small quantity CSO on Ohio River water quality during a storm event, and to correlate antibiotic resistance with conventional water quality measurements. The data indicate that resistant bacteria exist in both river water and wastewater, and that this CSO can not be identified as a source of resistant strains. Rain events do cause a detectable and transient change in …