Introduction
RPG issued a new RFP (#7 – due 2/26/24) to increase the intensity of water quality monitoring immediately above and below the two stream reaches in NVSRB that have recently been stocked with freshwater mussels. This 18-month project is focused on determining whether or not current field/lab sample methodologies for important water quality parameters (e.g. TN, TP, ortho-P and TSS) are capable of detecting the “mussel effect” at the actual streamflow sampled scale. This work is fully cooperative with the existing USGS (Stream Monitoring) and Virginia Tech (Mussel Introduction) programs described above.
In May of 2024 RPG approved the proposal from Virginia Tech entitled: Supplemental Water Quality Sampling for Combined Reston Mussel Stocking x Stream Monitoring Program. Principal Investigators at Virginia Tech are Sally Entrekin, Ryan Stewart and Jess Jones. The proposal also added several parallel instream discrete sampling events for (suspended) Chlorophyll-a, Benthic Chlorophyll-a, Sediment bound NH3-N and P.
Request for Proposals
Amount Awarded to Date: $392,529
Quarterly Progress Research Reports:
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