Water-quality appraisal of NASQAN stations below impoundments, eastern Tennessee

U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4171

by R.D. Evaldi and J.G. Lewis


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Objective

Basin description

Location

Topography

Climate

Population

Geology

Soils

Land use

Surface drainage

Hydrologic modifications

Quality of water data

Data sources

NASQAN data

Trend analysis techniques

Water-quality summaries and trend test results

Water type

Common constituents

Dissolved solids

Specific conductance

Hydrogen-ion activity (pH)

Sulfate

Trace constituents

Mercury

Iron

Nutrients

Nitrogen

Phosphorus

Organics and biological

Fecal coliform bacteria

Organic carbon

Sediment

Suspended sediment

Bed material

Water tern perature

Load computations

Reservoir stratification

Analysis of trend procedures

Summary and conclusions

References cited

 


 

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