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In cooperation with the Red River Authority of Texas

Assessment of Selected Water-Quality and Biological Data Collected in the Wichita River Basin, Texas, 1996–97

By Stanley Baldys III1 and D. Grant Phillips2

1 U.S. Geological Survey.
2 Red River Authority of Texas

U.S. Geological Survey
Fact Sheet 110–00


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Contents

Water-Quality Assessment

Biological Assessment

Fish

Macroinvertebrates

Algal Productivity

Bacteria

References

Figures

1.  

Map showing sampling sites and salt spring areas in the Wichita River Basin, Texas, 1996–97

2.  
Distributions of total selenium concentrations at sites in the Wichita River Basin

Tables

1.  
Monitoring program in the Wichita River Basin, Texas, 1996–97
2.  
Specific conductance and concentrations and computed loads of dissolved chloride and sulfate at sampling sites in the Wichita River Basin
3.  
Median trace-element concentrations at sampling sites in the Wichita River Basin
4.  
Rapid bioassessment of fish and habitat-survey scores at sampling sites in the Wichita River Basin
5.  
Summary of bacteria densities at sampling sites in the Wichita River Basin

 



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