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Ecology News: Addendum 2 to Quality Assurance Project Plan Spokane River Source Trace Study Hangman Watershed PCBs – QAPP addendum available for review

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The Addendum 2 to the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for the Spokane River Source Trace Study of Hangman Watershed PCBs is now available for review and comment.

DRAFT QAPP Addendum: Spokane Basin QAPP Add2_ecology trace study

Task Force members that are interested in providing input are asked to review the QAPP addendum and provide feedback no later than Friday April 6, 2018. All comments/feedback are to be sent directly to James Ross, contact information below:

James Ross
Urban Waters Specialist
(509) 329-3573
jros461@ecy.wa.gov

Ecology News: New Ecology QAPP Addendum: Flame Retardants in Ten WA State Waterbodies

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Addendum to Quality Assurance Project Plan: Flame Retardants in Ten Washington State Waterbodies, is available at

https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/SummaryPages/1803102.html 

Ecology’s PBT Monitoring Program regularly conducts studies to determine environmental levels and trends of chemicals that have been addressed by chemical action plans (CAPs).  This monitoring program also conducts research into emerging contaminants that may need to be addressed by future CAPs or other agency actions to reduce toxic threats.  Ecology is currently carrying out a study in 2017/2018 to quantitatively analyze legacy and current use flame retardants in surface water, sediment, and fish tissue in Washington State waterbodies (original QAPP, Mathieu, 2017).  For this study, target analytes in freshwater fish tissue collected from three locations include halogenated flame retardants and PBDEs.

This QAPP addendum documents an additional project component to collect more information on potential halogenated compounds present in fish tissue collected from the following waterbodies: Lake Ozette, Lake Spokane, and Lake Washington.  Ecology will send a total of six fillet tissue samples to the laboratory of University of Washington – Tacoma (UWT) Center for Urban Waters (CUW) for non-targeted screening of anthropogenic halogenated compounds by quadrupole time of flight liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (QTOF LC-MS/MS).  The non-targeted screening will seek to identify a large range of potential PBT chemicals present in the fish tissue samples.  This information will help inform and prioritize target analyte lists in future monitoring studies.

If you have questions, contact Callie Mathieu at 360-407-6965 or came461@ecy.wa.gov.

Diana Ruth Olegre
Web Coordinator and SharePoint Site Collection Administrator
Washington State Department of Ecology
Environmental Assessment Program 

diana.olegre@ecy.wa.gov
360-407-6696

“Spokane River PCBs and other Toxics Long Term Monitoring at the Spokane Tribal Boundary” Draft Quality Assurance Project Plan available for review and comment by April 23, 2015

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Ecology’s Environmental Assessment Program is requesting comments from the Task Force on the draft Quality Assurance Plan (QAPP). Please review the Draft QAPP and submit comments to Brandee Era-Miller via email (BERA461@ecy.wa.gov) or phone (360-407-6771) as soon as possible and no later than April 23, 2015.

DRAFT QAPP: “Spokane River PCBs and other Toxics, Long Term Monitoring at the Spokane Tribal Boundary”

QAPP/SAP for PCB characterization of Spokane Regional Vactor Waste Decant Facilities available for review

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The Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) and Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP) for the PCB Characterization of Spokane’s Regional Vactor Waste Decant Facilities is completed and available for review.

The Task Force team working on this project has reviewed the the QAPP/SAP and given their approval.  If you have any questions concerning the project please contact Jeff Donovan (jdonavan@spokanecity.org).