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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2018

A flow-chart for developing water quality criteria from two field-based methods.

Susan M Cormier, Lei Zheng, Ryan A Hill, Rachael M Novak, Colleen M Flaherty

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors.

Susan M CormierU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, 26 Martin Luther King Dr. W, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA. Electronic address: cormier.susan@epa.gov.
Lei ZhengTetra Tech, 10711 Red Run Blvd., Suite 105, Owings Mills, MD 21117, USA.
Ryan A HillOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, 200 SW 35th St. Corvallis, OR 97333, USA.
Rachael M NovakU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington, DC 20460, USA.
Colleen M FlahertyU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Washington, DC 20460, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Field-based methods increase relevance and realism when setting water quality criteria. They also pose challenges. To enable a consistent process, a flow chart was developed for choosing between two field-based methods and then selecting among candidate results. The two field-based methods estimated specific conductivity (SC) levels likely to extirpate 5% of benthic invertebrate genera: an extirpation concentration distribution (XCD) method and a background-to-criterion (B-C) model developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The B-C model is a least squares regression of the 5th centile of XCD (XCD

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Dissolved mineralsField-based methodPredicted conductivityStreamWater quality

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PMID29395232
PMCPMC7249996

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