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Communication at the NABS Annual meeting, Keystone, 2000
(469) MACROINVERTEBRATE BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS OF STREAMS IN SOUTH CAROLINA BY HIGH SCHOOL MINORITY STUDENTS.
D.K. Canada1, R.D. Maree1, S.E. Ayers1, S.A. Blake1, M.R. Borders1, W.R. Borders1, D.M. Daniels-Hester1, C.L. Glover1, D.R. House1, D.B. Mackey1, K.M. Scott1, A.N. Ulmer1, L.B. Glover1, and J.B. Glover2. 1Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, 3000 South Beltline Blvd., Columbia, SC, 29201, 2South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC, 29201
In September and October of 1999, 12 minority students in grades 9-12 at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, using the Save our Streams Bioassessment Protocol, sampled 9 streams in Richland and Lexington Counties, South Carolina. A water quality rating was calculated for each stream that ranged from 9 to 29. Using simple linear regression, these water quality ratings were compared to historic data collected by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC). The high school students’ water quality rating was highly correlated with SCDHEC’s Taxa Richness Index but was not highly correlated with the EPT index, the Biotic Index, or the Bioclassification Score. The Save our Streams water quality rating was converted to an aquatic life use support category in the following manner: Excellent and Good=Fully Supporting Aquatic Life Uses, Fair= Partially Supporting Aquatic Life Uses, Poor= Not Supporting Aquatic Life Uses. The results produced by this rating system agreed with those obtained by the SCDHEC for 8 of the 9 streams.
Presented at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, May 31, 2000 in Bioassessment: Techniques
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