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Data on the acute and chronic toxicity of sodium chloride and sodium sulfate to freshwater organisms in a low hardness water representing Louisiana water conditions

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2019-02-28
End Date
2021-05-06

Citation

Ivey, C.D., Wang, N., and Dorman, R. A., 2023, Data on the acute and chronic toxicity of sodium chloride and sodium sulfate to freshwater organisms in a low hardness water representing Louisiana water conditions: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BA1FYZ.

Summary

We determined acute and chronic toxicity of sodium chloride (NaCl) and sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) to up to 7 freshwater species of different taxa in a hardness water of 40 mg/L as CaCO3 and evaluated the effect of 4 hardness waters (15, 30, 60, and 120 mg/L as CaCO3) on acute toxicity of NaCl and Na2SO4 to 3 sensitive species tested in the acute exposures. This data release reports results from acute and chronic exposures with Ceriodaphnia dubia (cerios), Chironomus dilutus (midge), Hyalella azteca (amphipod), Hyla versicolor (gray treefrog), Lampsilis abrupta (pink mucket), Lampsilis siliquoidea (fatmucket), and Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow. Date include survival, size, and other endpoints and associated water quality measurements.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Chris D Ivey
Originator :
Chris D Ivey, Ning Wang, Rebecca A Dorman
Metadata Contact :
CERC Data Managers
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Columbia Environmental Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Metadata_Toxicity_NaCl_and_Na2SO4_in_low_hardness_waters.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		128.16 KB application/fgdc+xml
Chronic_endpoint_calculations.csv 7.7 KB text/csv
DryWeight_Biomass_and_YoungPerFemale _chronic.csv 17.22 KB text/csv
Fifty_percent_effect_concentrations_ acute.csv 2.29 KB text/csv
Length_measurements_for_growth_chronic.csv 45.41 KB text/csv
Measured_conductivity_acute_and_chronic.csv 32.01 KB text/csv
Measured_sodium_chloride_and_sodium_sulfate_acute_and_chronic.csv 26.32 KB text/csv
Survival_acute_and_chronic.csv 54.94 KB text/csv
Water_quality_characteristics_acute.csv 12.13 KB text/csv
Water_quality_characteristics_chronic.csv 6.36 KB text/csv

Purpose

Chloride (Cl) and sulfate (SO4) are widely occurring chemicals in contaminated aquatic environments. United States Environmental Protection Agency’s current national water quality criteria (WQC) for chloride and State (such as Illinois and Iowa) water quality standards (WQS) for sulfate have been developed based on toxicity data generated from laboratory testing in hard and moderately hard waters. However, many ecoregions in the Southeastern United States have median hardness values in soft water ranges (0 to 60 mg/L as CaCO3). Data were collected to determine if there is an influence of water quality, specifically water hardness, on the toxicity of sulfate and chloride, and whether criteria based on ion toxicity are an appropriate tool to protect aquatic life in Louisiana waters. The results can be used to develop or update Water quality criteria, water quality standards, and other environmental guidelines for chloride and sulfate to protect freshwater organisms in soft waters.

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