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* Nation-wide guidance manual for assessing ecological risks of power plant operation on aquatic communities.
* Impacts of municipal water intakes on the Hudson River estuary & analysis of design alternatives for reducing those impacts.
* Collection and transport of fish among reservoirs as part of a dewatering and dam rehabilitation project.
* Analysis of the scientific basis for proposed NPDES permit limits for a chlorine discharge to San Diego Bay.
* Entrainment and impingement studies at the cooling water intakes of 4 steam-electric generating stations on Long Island, NY.
* Analysis of long-term trends in water quality and the benthic macroinvertebrate community in south San Diego Bay.
* Assessment of biological impacts from thermal discharges at a nuclear generating facility on the Delaware Estuary.
* Multi-year study of the aquatic communities of the upper tidal Delaware River and potential for power plant impacts.
* Technical oversight of impact assessments for a thermal discharge along the central California coast.
* Evaluation of intake technologies & operating measures for complying with CWA 316(b) at 2 Hudson River power plants.
* A Conservation Plan and Env. Assessment for the incidental take of an endangered species from the Hudson River estuary.
* Development of a narrative dissolved oxygen water quality objective for south San Diego Bay.
* Development of methodologies for assessing the potential effects of large-scale cooling water withdrawals.
* Evaluation of intake technology alternatives to reduce impacts from a cooling water intake on the East River, New York.
* Field studies of the effectiveness of a fabric filter barrier for reducing ichthyoplankton entrainment at a power plant intake.
* A report on biological factors determining the potential for adverse environmental impact from cooling water intakes.
* A multi-disciplinary DEIS for renewal of discharge permits at four large electric generating stations on the Hudson River.
* Studies of the effects of an accidental release of copper sulfate on fish and marcroinvertebrates of the Hoosic River, NY.
* Technical oversight and data management of multi-year waterbody-wide fisheries studies of the Hudson River estuary.
* Assessment of the fisheries impacts from a planned municipal water supply intake on the Mataponi River, VA.