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Understanding the Ecology and Monitoring Tools for Cyanobacteria Blooms Impacting a Water Treatment Plant Jill Crumb, B.Sc., TreeFrog Environmental Tim Walton, B.Sc., Pam Law, P.Eng., Regional Municipality of Waterloo Leigh McDermott, M.E.Sc., P.Eng., Stantec Consulting
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Agenda • Background • Cyanotoxin Regulatory Guidelines • Aquatic Ecology • Monitoring Program • Results • Summary
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Project Background
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Hidden Valley Reservoir
• The Regional Municipality of Waterloo (RMOW) is proactively monitoring the Hidden Valley Reservoir for cyanobacteria activity
• The reservoir is fed from the Grand River and supplies the Mannheim WTP (72 MLD capacity)
• RMOW: • Population: > 550,000 • Area: 1,382 km2 • Two Tier System
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Hidden Valley Reservoir
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• Large reservoir structure with 140 million litres (ML) storage in 4 cells – Water flows in an under-over path prior to being
conveyed to the Mannheim WTP • Timeline:
– 2010: cyanobacteria discovered and impacted cells isolated
– Spring 2011: mitigation measures were implemented in Cell 3
– 2011 and 2012: routine monitoring carried out to understand growth factors and treatment needs
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Cyanobacteria – why the fuss? • Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae,
are photosynthetic bacteria • Capable of producing cyanotoxins: very potent
toxins with varying health effects • Historical records as far back as
1000 years (poisoning of soldiers in S. China)
• Linked to animal illness in Canada for over 50 years
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Cyanotoxin Regulatory Guidelines
Standard Cyanotoxin Standard
Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standard MC-LR: 1.5 µg/L Canadian Drinking Water Quality MC-LR: 1.5 µg/L Australian Drinking Water Guidelines MC-LR: 1.3 µg/L
Currently considering: anatoxin-a, saxitoxin, and cylindrospermopsin
World Health Organization (provisional guideline)
MC-LR: 1.0 µg/L
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• Over 80 structural variants of the Microcystin toxin group • Most common cyanotoxin is Microcystin-LR (MC-LR) • Other cyanotoxins: anatoxin, saxitoxin, nodularin and
cylindrospermopsin
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Aquatic Ecology of Cyanobacteria
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Planktonic cyanobacteria • can regulate their location in
the water column • eg. Microcystis, Anabaena,
Oscillatoria
Benthic cyanobacteria • attach to surfaces • eg. Phormidium, Lyngbia,
Oscillatoria
water surface
waterbody walls/bottom
Surface cyanobacteria • can be planktonic or
detached benthic mats
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Cyanobacteria Growth Factors • Temperature • Light Penetration (Turbidity) • Light Intensity and Quality • Nutrients
– Total Concentration – Ratio of N:P (10-16:1)
• Alkalinity and pH
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Source: EPA
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Monitoring Program Objectives • Growth factors specific to the Hidden
Valley Reservoir (HVR) • Determination of cyanobacteria taxa • Determination of average and worst-case
toxin load that may pass to the Mannheim WTP
• Methodology for determination of cyanobacteria counts
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Tools – Probes Cyanobacteria • YSI 600 OMS V2
sonde and handheld data logger with phycocyanin probe
• Measures “Real Flourescence Units”
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Water Quality • YSI ProPlus sonde and handheld data logger
with probes for temperature, pH and dissolved oxygen
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Tools – Strip Tests and Analytical • Abraxis Test Kit for
Source Drinking Water – Includes lysing step – Detection to 5 ppb
• Laboratory Analysis – nitrate, nitrite,
ammonia-N – total-P and ortho-P – turbidity and DOC
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Monitoring Methodology
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• Monitoring window: mid-June to late-Oct
• Composite samples for Cells 2 to 4, and grab sampling of Low-Lift and High-Lift
• “In Situ” sampling using probes and strip tests
• Analytical testing
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Results from 2011 Cyanobacteria present: • Anabaena • Anacystis • Gomphosphaeria • Oscillatoria
Cyanotoxin (MC-LR) levels at the High-Lift have always been well below MAC of 1.5 µg/L
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Results – Growth Factors
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• Three primary factors identified: – Nitrite Concentration
• Literature suggests metabolic pathway for nitrites
– Retention Time • Bloom corresponded to increase in retention time
– Mixing • Mixers installed in
Cell 3
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Results – Growth Factors
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Results – Growth Factors
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Results – Growth Factors
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Tools – Best Practices Fluorescence Probe • Good quantitative results
for cyanobacteria counts • Possible to use for true
“in situ” or grab samples • Correlation needed for
specific source water • Good correlation to
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Tools – Lessons Learned Strip Tests • Relatively quick confirming test
– Test requires approximately 90 minutes
• Rapid strip test resolution was poor – Did not detect low level MC-LR
concentrations – Sometimes difficult to read
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Summary • Cyanobacteria Ecology
– Understanding of taxonomy is important for guiding monitoring needs
– Monitoring frequency and water quality data tracking is important for trend identification
– Monitoring should be increased during a bloom event • Monitoring Tools
– Laboratory confirmation of toxins – Strip tests rapid but resolution should be examined – Fluorescence probes reliable but cost is higher and
require correlation – Spatial monitoring can be beneficial but labour and
health and safety needs are important considerations
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Acknowledgements • Peter Clarke, RMOW • Kathy Taylor, RMOW • All our cyanobacteria pals…. • And not to mention green algae too….
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Questions?
Jill Crumb, TreeFrog Environmental [email protected]
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