Research Product

Kepone was discovered to be in the James River in 1975 and has offered scientists the opportunity to study and test many of the hypotheses concerning organic pollutants in marine and estuarine waters. While tragic in most respects, the fact that Kepone was a rare chemical relative to manufacture and use and that it can be considered to have entered the James River from a point source, makes it an excellent tracer and surrogate of other organics in the aqueous environments. The presentation will describe some of the scientific findings based on literally thousands of Kepone analyses of fish, water, crabs, oysters, clams, and sediments.