Nonpoint-source pollutant discharges of the three major tributaries to Reelfoot Lake, West Tennessee, October 1987 through September 1989

U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigations Report 91-4031

by Michael E. Lewis, Jerry W. Garrett and Anne B. Hoos

Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Previous investigations

Description of study area

Topography

Geology and soils

Land use

Climate

Data collection

Hydrologic conditions during the study period

Precipitation

Streamflow

Nonpoint-source pollutants

Loads and yields of suspended sediment and nutrients

Correlation between water-quality constituents and instantaneous stream discharge

Seasonality in water quality

Triazine herbicides

Summary

References cited

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