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Bathymetric surveys of selected lakes in Missouri--2000-2008

Open-File Report 2013-1101
In cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131101

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Abstract

Years of sediment accumulation and abnormally dry conditions in the Midwest in 1999 and 2000 led to the water level decline of many water-supply lakes in Missouri, and caused renewed interest in modernizing outdated area/volume tables for these lakes. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, surveyed the bathymetry of 51 lakes in Missouri from July 2000 to May 2008. The data were used to provide water managers with area/volume tables and bathymetric maps of the lakes at the time of the surveys. In 50 of the lakes, bathymetric surveys were made using a boat-mounted single-beam survey-grade fathometer. In Clearwater Lake, bathymetric data were collected primarily using a boat-mounted survey-grade multibeam fathometer, and some bathymetric data were collected using a single-beam fathometer in areas of the lake that were inaccessible to the multibeam fathometer. Data processing, area/volume table computation, and bathymetric map production were completed for each lake.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Bathymetric surveys of selected lakes in Missouri--2000-2008
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2013-1101
DOI 10.3133/ofr20131101
Year Published 2013
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Missouri Water Science Center
Description iv, 8 p.; Downloads Directory
Time Range Start 2000-01-01
Time Range End 2008-12-31
Country United States
State Missouri
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) Y
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