Revised March 2012
EcoLogic, LLC
Aquatic,
Terrestrial and Wetland Consultants
Cazenovia, NY 13035
Revised March 2012
EcoLogic, LLC
Aquatic,
Terrestrial and Wetland Consultants
Cazenovia, NY 13035
Cornell
Biological Field Station
Onondaga County
Department of Water Environment Protection
Environmental
Engineer
This report
presents the findings of
The 2010 report
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Table
of Contents- AMP 2010
Section 1. Introduction to the AMP
1.2 Classification
and Best Use
1.4 Amended
Consent Judgment Milestones
1.5 Projects
to address legacy industrial pollution.
1.6 Use
of metrics to measure and report progress
Section 2. Onondaga Lake and Watershed
2.1 Watershed
size and hydrology
Section 3. Onondaga County Actions
Section 4. Tributary Results: 2010 Results and
Trends
4.2.1 Compliance with ambient water quality standards
4.2.4 Tributary macroinvertebrates
Section 5. Onondaga Lake Water Quality: 2010
Results and Trends
5.3.3 Secchi Disk Transparency
5.7 Nearshore
condition and trends
5.7.1 Nearshore water clarity trends
5.7.2 Fecal coliform bacteria trends
5.8 Trends
in Metro improvements and lake response
Section 6. Biology and Food Web: 2010 Results
and Trends
6.1 Primary
producers- Algae and Macrophytes
6.2 Zooplankton
and dreissenid mussels
6.3 Littoral
macroinvertebrates
6.4.4 Fish Size – Largemouth Bass
6.4.5 Fish Size – Smallmouth Bass
6.4.7 Fish Size – Yellow Perch and Brown Bullhead
6.4.8 Angler Catch Rates of Bass
6.6 Additional
information regarding the fish community
6.7 Integrated
assessment of the food web
Section 7. Seneca River: 2010 Conditions and
Trends
Section 8. Progress with related initiatives
Section 9. Emerging issues and recommendations
List of Acronyms and Glossary of Terms
Library of Supporting Materials
LIST OF TABLES
Table EX- 1. Summary of Metrics, Onondaga Lake 2010
Table 1‑1. Overview of AMP data analysis and
interpretation plan.
Table 1‑2. Metro compliance schedule.
Table 1‑3. CSO compliance schedule.
Table 3‑2. CSO remedial projects (gray
infrastructure) planned.
Table 4‑1. Summary of tributary compliance
with ambient water quality standards, 2010.
Table 4‑3. Load
of selected nutrients, salts and bacteria to Onondaga Lake, 2010.
Table 4‑4. Percent annual loading
contribution by gauged inflow, 2010.
Table 4‑8. Ten-year trends in tributary
concentrations (2001-2010) – summary.
Table 4‑9. Ten-year trends in tributary
loading (2001-2010) – summary.
Table 4‑10. Incidence
of chironomid deformities, Onondaga Lake tributaries, 2010.
Table
5‑1. Onondaga
Lake compliance with ambient water quality standards and guidance
values, 2010.
Table 5‑3. Summary
of trends in lake concentrations, 2001-2010.
Table
6‑1. Species list of aquatic macrophytes observed in Onondaga Lake
Table 6‑3. Fish species identified in
Onondaga Lake, 2000-2010.
Table
7‑1. Summary of non-compliance with
selected AWQS, Three Rivers, 2010.
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure EX- 1. Daily average discharge of Ammonia-N
(NH3-N)
to Onondaga Lake from Metro, 1990-2010.
Figure EX- 2. Daily average phosphorus (TP) loading
from Metro, 1990-2010.
Figure EX- 4. Ammonia input to Onondaga Lake,
1990-2004 and 2010.
Figure EX- 6. Total phosphorus input to Onondaga
Lake, 1990-2004 and 2010.
Figure EX- 7. Summer algal bloom frequency, Onondaga
Lake, 1990 – 2010.
Figure EX- 10. Aquatic plant coverage, 2000 and
2010.
Figure EX- 11. Number of macrophyte species
identified in Onondaga Lake, 2000, 2005 and 2010.
Figure 1‑1. Tributary
and lake regulatory classifications and subwatershed boundaries.
Figure 1‑2. Map
of monitoring locations, Onondaga Lake and tributaries.
Figure 2‑1. Annual
average inflows to Onondaga Lake, 2001-2010.
Figure 2‑2. Land
cover classification map.
Figure 4‑1. Fecal
coliform bacteria abundance, Onondaga Lake tributaries, 2010.
Figure 4‑2. Watershed
(non-Metro) TP annual load and annual rainfall, 1990-2010.
Figure 4‑3. Biological
assessment designations, Onondaga Lake tributaries, 2000- 2010.
Figure 4‑4. Metro
NH3-N, 2010 effluent concentration compared to permit limits.
Figure 4‑5. Metro
TP, 2010 effluent concentration compared to permit limit.
Figure
5‑1. Chlorophyll-a concentration, January to December, 1998-2010.
Figure
5‑3. Secchi Disk transparency, Onondaga Lake South Deep, 2010.
Figure
5‑4. TSI conditions based on summer (June 1 – September 30) data, 1998-2010.
Figure 5‑8. Relationship
of Metro TP loading and lake summer TP (panel A-linear regression)
Figure 5‑9. Onondaga
Lake upper waters total nitrogen to total phosphorus (N:P) ratio, 1998‐2010.
Figure 5‑10. LWL
concentrations of SRP, NO3-N and DO, 2006-2010.
Figure
6‑1. Reduction in the Onondaga Lake phytoplankton standing crop, 1998-2010.
Figure
6‑2. Proportional biomass of phytoplankton divisions, 2010.
Figure
6‑3. Phytoplankton community structure and biomass, 2010.