Acid rain effects on Adirondack streams - results from the 2003-05 western Adirondack stream survey (the WASS Project)

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3075/

Acidified soils caused toxic aluminum in 66 percent of 565 assessed streams. Diatoms and aquatic macroinvertebrates were moderately to severely affected. These effects have not improved in areas surveyed in the early 1980s

by Lawrence, Gregory B.; Roy, Karen M.; Baldigo, Barry P.; Simonin, Howard A.; Passy, Sophia I.; Bode, Robert W.; and Capone, Susan B.

U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3075

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