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Ohio river6/18/2023 Speakers: Jessica Fox (EPRI) and Jacob Bourgeois (First Climate)Īfter your registration request has been approved, you'll receive instructions for joining the meeting. 11:00 am | Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) | 1 hr WEBCAST: Bringing Water Quality Credits to Environmental Stewardship Marketsįriday, June 14, 2019. Hear about the collaboration between EPRI and First Climate to sell credits: Train derailments don’t happen that often, Harrison said, but ORSANCO responds to a variety of situations throughout the basin. It includes more than 275,000 miles of streams and waterways that flow into the Ohio River. Press Release “ EPRI and First Climate Bring Water Quality Credits to Environmental Stewardship Markets” The Ohio River basin is massive, spanning almost 200,000 square miles from northern Ohio to northern Georgia. Visit our collaborators at First Climate to conveniently purchase between 1 The credits align with various sustainability programs and disclosures, including GRI, CDP, United National Sustainable Development Goals, and CEO Water Mandate. Targets and permit compliance obligations. Developing natural solutions to flood-handling and harmful algal blooms.Working with small farmers, our water quality credits protect watersheds by providing a science-based option for those seeking to mitigate supply chain impacts and meet personal environmental footprint goals as well as larger corporate.The 4R program engages growers on best management practices for fertilizer application to reduce excess nutrient runoff into waterways. Expanding the 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification program into the Ohio River Basin in order to decrease algal blooms.Reducing the impacts of dam operations on rivers and streams in the Upper Ohio River basin by working with the Army Corps of Engineers to modify the operation of certain reservoirs in order to encourage native fish passage and help prevent the spread of non-native, invasive fish species like Asian Carp.In addition, the basin’s rivers and streams are being tapped at historic rates to meet the demands of the growing shale gas industry, further altering the natural flow of these important aquatic habitats. Dams also can create a barrier for migrating fish like sturgeon and paddlefish. England later controlled the same land based on a purchase from the Native tribes in 1744, which ultimately led to the French and Indian War from 1756 to 1763. France first claimed the watershed of La Belle Viviere (the beautiful river). They often reduce high flow events that provide a stimulus for fish spawning and rebuild important stream habitat. The Ohio receives its name from the Iroquois word, O-Y-O, meaning the great river. Their currents and volume are managed by dozens of dams to provide us with hydropower, navigation, water supply, flood protection and recreation.ĭams disrupt the natural ebb and flow of a river. These species have evolved over thousands (or, in the case of the American paddlefish, millions) of years, to take advantage of the food and habitat diversity provided by the river’s natural, seasonal variance.īut the Upper Ohio and its tributaries no longer flow naturally. ![]() Hundreds of species feed in the riffles of the Ohio River basin, nest on its islands, establish roots in its floodplains, and live in or along its banks. Pools Begins in Pittsburgh, PA formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers Ends in Cairo, IL emptying into the Mississippi river 981. ![]() Many species of plants and animals have evolved to take advantage of this constant change. Rivers experience seasonal changes that can transform a calm stream into a raging torrent. ThreatsĪnyone who loves rivers knows they are not static systems. Sailing from Newport Landing on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River, BB Riverboats offers lunch, dinner, kids and holiday cruises, plus many specialty. ![]() In fact, the Upper Ohio River Basin has the highest diversity of fish and freshwater mussel species of any river system in the northeast United States, boasting ancient paddlefish and freshwater mussels of such diversity and numbers they have been used to re-establish threatened populations in other states. In spite of the demands put on it, the system supports abundant wildlife as well. The Ohio River has always been a work horse for people-providing us with food and water, guiding exploration and settlement, powering early industrial development, and serving as a destination for outdoor recreation. Nearly a thousand miles later, the Ohio meets up with the Mississippi, at the aptly named Cairo (think Nile), Illinois.Īlong the way, as it snakes through the heart of the country, the Ohio River picks up tributary waters from 14 states, where topography ushers highland waters down a diverse gradient of forest, grassland, farmland and development. The Ohio River is born in Pittsburgh, where the Appalachian mountain waters of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers merge.
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