Hazard assessment of inorganics to three endangered fish in the Green River, Utah
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Abstract
Acute toxicity tests were conducted with three life stages of Colorado squawfish (Ptychocheilus lucius), razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), and bonytail (Gila elegans) in a reconstituted water quality simulating the middle part of the Green River of Utah. Tests were conducted with boron, lithium, selenate, selenite, uranium, vanadium, and zinc. The overall rank order of toxicity to all species and life stages combined from most to least toxic was vanadium = zinc > selenite > lithium = uranium > selenate > boron. There was no difference between the three species in their sensitivity to the seven inorganics based on a rank-order evaluation at the species level. Colorado squawfish were 2-5 times more sensitive to selenate and selenite at the swimup life stage than older stages, whereas razorback suckers displayed equal sensitivity among life stages. Bonytail exhibited equal sensitivity to selenite, but were five times more sensitive to selenate at the swimup life stage than the older stages. Comparison of 96-hr LC50 values with a limited number of environmental water concentrations in Ashley Creek, Utah, which receives irrigation drainwater, revealed moderate hazard ratios for boron, selenate, selenite, and zinc, low hazard ratios for uranium and vanadium, but unknown ratios for lithium. These inorganic contaminants in drainwaters may adversely affect endangered fish in the Green River.
Publication type | Article |
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Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Title | Hazard assessment of inorganics to three endangered fish in the Green River, Utah |
Series title | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety |
DOI | 10.1006/eesa.1995.1017 |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 2 |
Year Published | 1995 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Contributing office(s) | Columbia Environmental Research Center |
Description | 9 p. |
First page | 134 |
Last page | 142 |
Country | United States |
State | Utah |
Other Geospatial | Green River |
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