2015 Monitoring Activities: Summer Water Quality Conditions Technical Committee Meeting October 6-7, 2015 Agenda Item #5

2015 Sampling Sites

MayJuneJuly August September Summer 2015 Monthly Precipitation Relative to Normal

Average Monthly Streamflow May – September 2015

Bimonthly Sampling

Bimonthly Sampling 2015 vs Previous Decade: TP (mg/L)

Bimonthly Sampling 2015 vs Previous Decade: T-N (mg/L)

Clean Metals Sampling

WQC Violations Clean Metals Clean Metals data July 2014-May 2015

MeHg BAF and Tributary Sampling MeHg BAFs under development at two locations: (green dots) 4 of 12 events complete. Expected finish of data collection July Tributary Hg & MeHg Mass Load Development (Blue Dots) Data collection October 2015 to September 2016

Contact Recreation Sampling

Bacteria samples are collected April 1 through October 31. Samples are collected at an upstream and downstream location in Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Huntington, Cincinnati, Louisville and Evansville. Five rounds of sampling are completed monthly for each urban community sampling location and analyzed for E. coli using Membrane Filtration. Those five samples are then used to produce a monthly Geometric Mean which shall not exceed 130CFU/100mL and shall not exceed 240CFU/100mL in any single sample. Contact Recreation Monitoring Percent Exceeded April-September 2015PittsburghWheelingHuntingtonCincinnatiLouisvilleEvansville Monthly Geometric Mean66%33%0%66%50% Single Sample Max36%20%13%36%17%33%

In Cincinnati we also analyze for Enterococcus using Enterolert and for E.coli/Total Coliform using Colilert at three cross-sections (nine sites). Special Projects* Cincinnati Triathlon The Great Ohio River Swim Louisville Ironman *Currently postponed due to the HAB Contact Recreation Monitoring

D.O. and Temperature Monitoring

Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Monitoring Dissolved oxygen (D.O.) and temperature is monitored by the United States Army Corp of Engineers, electric utility/hydropower agencies or ORSANCO for the assessment of aquatic life water quality criteria. The average D.O. concentration shall be at least 5.0mg/L for each calendar day. Both Markland and Smithland had days that fell below 5.0mg/L. (Graphs to follow) The allowable temperature varies each month and ranges from 71°-89°F. Temperatures never exceeded the criteria due to the cool summer the Ohio River Basin experienced this year. (Graphs to follow)

5.0 mg/L

Wabash and Algae/Nutrients Program

Algae/Nutrients Program Sampling at water plants ended June 30, 2014 Re-purposed funds to collect nutrients at macroinvertebrate sites Sampling for HABs on an “as-needed” basis. No algae blooms reported or detected – OK, maybe that’s not true. Agenda Item 10c.

Dissolved Oxygen Number of days with Average DO <5mg/L = 1 Number of days with any measurement <4mg/L = 4 Similar to 2013

Biochemical Oxygen Demand Identified as a contributor to low DO in the Smithland Pool. Zero detections on the Ohio River Similar to previous years

Probabilistic Pool Survey Sites 15 random 500m sites per pool Fish Community Macroinvertebrate Community Continuous DO & Temp logger Nutrients & Chlorophyll A Instream & Riparian Habitat

Other 39 Fish Tissue Samples Riverwide

Organics Detection System Sites

Organics Detection System Balance remaining as of June 30, 2015: – ~$1.1M remaining total funding – Sept 30, 2016 is current project deadline – Expected major expenditures in remaining grant term Service contracts for GC/MSD & IC components Replace 2 MSD at West View/ Dupont Contractual Services for Websites Replace computer systems, software updates Build up consumables inventory On-going program costs Explore adding other data/information components to website (Algae, utility and other metadata); meeting with contractors in mid October to discuss

Organics Detection System 14*/33 (42%) surface water DW facilities are ODS host site participants; 2 are industrial host sites, and HQ (17 total locations). – *NKY Water can also analyze VOC’s upon request – Recently approached by Henderson to become involved with ODS program 3 conventional GC systems installed late 2014 AEP-St. Albans, Portsmouth, Paducah 2 GC/MSD systems installed: Wheeling & HQ 9 sites are running more than one sample/day – All sites will be running 4-6 samples per day by end of grant Pittsburgh to become active ODS site this fall 2015 with process GC capabilities (relocation of Wheeling unit) – Site inspection performed, lab modifications necessary by PWSA before installation can occur (Fall 2015) Old instrumentation donated to Thomas More Biological Field Station, NKY Water, UC Cincinnati, IL American (Cairo) and P&T parts to Metropolitan Sewer District

Organics Detection System 3 Laboratory renovations/relocations for ODS host sites; staff handled instrument relocation, start up and re-calibration – Additionally Staff installed “old” ODS systems at NKY Water & TMC Biology field station and provided training & start up ODS renovation started in 2009; components starting to show wear, minor repairs (so far) becoming more frequent, taking advantage of remote diagnosis and troubleshooting capabilities to reduce staff travel time. – Mother boards – Auto sampler (alignment, needles, incorrect volume draw, blocked flow path etc.) – Software issues

Organics Detection System ODS travel related repairs (non-warranty, non- maintenance agreement) – 30 hours computer related – 26.5 hours diagnose, non repairable (shipped to vendor) – 9 hours Autosampler related Anticipate more frequent repair trips as systems age – Only the GCMSD portion of instrumentation is covered by Maintenance Agreements

Organics Detection System Performance Operations

Operational 88.6% Staffing 6.3% Renovations 3.4% Instrumentation 6.3% From January-August ,645 river water samples were analyzed % System Utilization (#river samples/#days) * (#sites) * 100 = 88.6% Overall, ODS sites were unable to run daily river water 11.4% of the time. Leading causes of downtime (>1 day) were related to: -Staffing issues (6.3%) -Major Laboratory renovations/relocation (11.4%) -Instrument failure (1.7%) Organics Detection System

Coordinated ODS to respond to February 2015 Bakken Crude CSX train derailment for WV sites – ODS already calibrated to detect Bakken Crude BTEX components – St. Albans, Huntington, Ashland, Portsmouth – No spill related detections were reported.