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Traverse City, MI 49686
Phone: (231) 941-2230
Fax: (231) 941-2240
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Columbus, Ohio 43212
Phone: (614) 487-1040
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GLEC has extensive capabilities and experience in conducting field and laboratory tests required by environmental legislation such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Water Act
(CWA), as well as FERC Exhibit E requirements, and others. Our team of terrestrial and aquatic scientists is experienced in the development of testing plans tailored to the client's particular need.
Should a client's needs extend beyond the implementation of standard testing protocols, our staff is particularly experienced at solving the more difficult and technically challenging problems relating to pollutant characterization, transport and transformation, food web transfer, ecosystem effects, and environmental test protocol development, refinement, and validation.
Aquatic Toxicology
- Evaluation of Short-term Chronic Aquatic Toxicology
- Evaluation of the Effects of Food and Water Quality
- Inter- and Intralaboratory Evaluation of the Seven-Day Fathead Minnow Survival and Growth Test
- Aquatic Toxicity Testing to Provide Data for Ambient Water Quality Criteria Documents
- Evaluation of Toxicity of Dioxin to Rainbow Trout in an Embryo-Larval Flow-Through Bioassay System
- On-Site Pilot Plant Operation and Toxicity Identification/Reduction Evaluation (TI/RE) at a U.S. Air Force Base
- Toxicity Identification/Reduction Evaluation (TI/RE) at a U.S. Army Ammunition Plant
- Toxicity Identification/Reduction Evaluation(TI/RE) at a U.S. Air Force Base
- Construction and Assessment of Pilot-Scale Wetland at Pine Bluff Arsenal
- Acute and Early-Life-Stage Toxicity Testing of Dieldrin with Fathead Minnows for Criteria Development
- Acute and Chronic Toxicity Testing of Ammonia with Hyalella azteca (Amphipod)
- Acute Toxicity Testing with Selenium with Gammarus and Ceriodaphnia dubia
- Site Specific Water Quality Criteria Development
- Site Specific Criteria Development for Chlorine Produced Oxidants
- Development of Site-Specific Water Quality Criteria at an Ash Disposal Site in West Virginia
- Development of a Site-Specific Water quality Criterion for Hexavalent Chromium
- Field and Laboratory Site-Specific Evaluation of Cadmium, Copper and Zinc
- Development of a Site-Specific Water Quality Criterion for Copper at a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facility
- Validation of Ambient Water Quality Criteria (AWQC) Bioaccumulation Methodology Using Green Bay Mass Balance and Hudson River Datasets
- Evaluation of Whole Sediment and Sediment Elutriate Toxicity in PCB contaminated River Sediments
- Sediment and Substarte Quality Investigations in the Tennessee River
- Toxicity Testing with Pthalate Esters and Chironomous tentans to Evalute Eq-P
- Environmental Assessment of the Effects of Contaminated Groundwater Intrusion on a Northern Michigan lake
- HPLC Fluorescence Analysis of PAH contaminated Sediments
- Determination of Instream Effects and Contaminant Identification by the Correlation of Whole Sediment Toxicity Tests Results with Contaminant Monitoring
- Determination of the Source of DDT Contamination at Pine Bluff Arsenal Using Analytical Techniques and Whole Sediment toxicity Testing
- Sediment Quality Guidelines and Assessment: Overview and Research Needs
- Laboratory and Field Validation of the EPA's Bioconcentratable Pollutant Protocol
- Derivation of Baseline Bioaccumulation Factors (BAFs) from Grand Calumet River Field-Measured BAFs for Benzo[a]pyrene
- Assessment of Bioconcentratable Contaminants in Select Lake Michigan Tributaries
- Development of Draft National Default Bioaccumulation Factors (BAFs)
- Field Plan Document for Deriving Bioaccumulation Factors
- Development of Draft National Default Bioaccumulation Factor for Mercury
- Grand Traverse Bay Initiative - Assessment of Water Quality
- Mitchell Creek Watershed Non-Point Pollution Study
- Mitchell Creek Wetland Assessment
- Water Quality Monitoring to Determine the Impact of Fish Hatchery Discharge on Receiving Waters
- Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Water Quality Assessment in Grand Traverse Bay
- Ecological Assessment of a Paper Mill Treatment Lagoon
- Analysis of Mid-Appalachian Macroinvertebrate Samples
- Ecological Risk Assessment at Pine Bluff Arsenal
- Substrate and Aquatic Community Assessment (fish and macroinvertabrates) in the Arkansas River.
- Using Biological Information to Establish Designated Aquatic Life Uses and Biological Criteria in State Water Quality Standards: Develop, Document and Communicate Scientific and Programmatic Foundation
- Application and Testing of Bioassessment Protocols on Lakes in New Jersey
- Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund-Grand Traverse Bay Water Quality and Habitat Inventory
- Biological and Habitat Assessment Protocols for Wadeable Streams in the 1836 Ceded Territory
- Development of a Guidance Manual for Water Quality-Based Permitting
- Guidance Document Developed that is Available to Utility Dischargers for Complying with Effluent Compliance Issues
- Review and Evaluation of EPA's Guidelines for Deriving Numerical Aquatic Life Criteria
- Development of Methodologies for Incorporating the Copper Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) into Aquatic Life Criteria
- Development of Improved Monitoring Strategies for Recreational Water Indicators
- Environmental Assessment of Low Head Hydropower Dams
- The Use of Instream Flow Incremental Methodology for Determination of Water Release Regimes for Two Water Storage Reservoirs in Michigan
- Fish Diversion/Protection Demonstration Study
- Effect of Water Level Fluctuations on Reservoir Ecology
- Minimum Instream Flows for a River By-Pass Channel in Northern Wisconsin
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)-Relicense Studies
- Fish Entrainment and Turbine Survival Studies for the Wissota Hydroelectric Project
- Fish Entrainment and Turbine Survival Studies for the St. Anthony-Hennepin Island Hydroelectric Project
- Development of Rapid Methods for the Detection of Non-Enteric Pathogens in Ambient Waters
- Storm Water Plan Development
- Development of Draft Technical Guidance Manuals and Ecoregional Nutrient Criteria Documents
- Literature Search for Aquatic Life Toxicity Data on Narcotic Chemicals
- Literature Update and Revision of Proposed Water Quality Criteria Document for Tributyltin (TBT). [Work Assignment No. B-04 of Contract No. 68-C6-0036]
- Chronic Sequelae of Waterborne Pathogens
- Update Draft Criteria Documents for Atrazine, Atrazine Metabolites, Cadmium, Copper, Diazinon, Lead, Nonylphenol, Selenium and Silver for Protection of Aquatic Life
- Preparation of the sediment guideline document entitled: Equilibrium Sediment Guidelines (ESGs) for the Protection of Benthic Organisms: Metal Mixtures (Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Silver and Zinc).
- Preparation of the sediment guideline document entitled: Equilibrium Sediment Guidelines (ESGs) for the Protection of Benthic Organisms: PAH Mixtures.