Sedimentation in Lake Onalaska, navigation pool 7, Upper Mississippi River, since impoundment

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Sediment accumulation was evaluated in Lake Onalaska, a 2800-ha backwater impoundment on the Upper Mississippi River. Computer programs were used to process bathometric charts and generate an extensive data set on water depth for the lake. Comparison of 1983 survey data with pre-impoundment (before 1937) data showed that Lake Onalaska had lost less than 10 percent of its original mean depth in the 46 years since impoundment. Previous estimates of sedimentation rates based on Cesium-137 sediment core analysis appear to have been too high.

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Korschgen, C.E., Jackson, G.A., Muessig, L., and Southworth, D., 1987, Sedimentation in Lake Onalaska, navigation pool 7, Upper Mississippi River, since impoundment: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 23, no. 2, p. 221-226, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.1987.tb00799.x.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Sedimentation in Lake Onalaska, navigation pool 7, Upper Mississippi River, since impoundment
Series title Journal of the American Water Resources Association
DOI 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1987.tb00799.x
Volume 23
Issue 2
Publication Date June 08, 2007
Year Published 1987
Language English
Publisher Wiley
Contributing office(s) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Description 6 p.
First page 221
Last page 226
Country United States
State Wisconsin
Other Geospatial Lake Onalaska, Upper Mississippi River
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