Data on surface-water quality and quantity, lower Edgewood Creek basin, Douglas County, Nevada, 1984-85
Open-File Report
87-565
By: R.J. La Camera and S.B. Browning
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Abstract
Selected hydrologic data were collected from August 1984 through July 1985 at three sites on the lower part of Edgewood Creek, and at a recently constructed sediment-catchment basin that captures and retains runoff from developed areas in the lower Edgewood Creek drainage. The data were collected to quantify the discharge of selected constituents downstream from recent and planned watershed restoration projects, and to Lake Tahoe. Contained in this report are the results of quantitative analyses of 39 water samples for: total and dissolved ammonium, organic nitrogen, nitrite, nitrate, phosphorus, and orthophosphorus; suspended sediment; total iron, manganese, and zinc; and dissolved temperature, specific conductance, pH, and dissolved oxygen; summary statistics (means and standard deviations), and computations of instantaneous loads. On the basis of mean values, about 80% of the total nitrogen load at each of the three Edgewood Creek sites is in the form of organic nitrogen, 12% is in the form of nitrate nitrogen, 7% is in the form of ammonium nitrogen, and 1% is in the form of nitrite nitrogen. The percentage of total phosphorus load in the form of orthophosphorus at the three stream sites varies somewhat with time, but is generally greater at the two downstream sites than at the upstream site. In addition, the percentage of the total phosphorus load that is present in the dissolved state generally is greater at the two downstream sites than at the upstream site. (Lantz-PTT)
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La Camera, R., Browning, S., 1988, Data on surface-water quality and quantity, lower Edgewood Creek basin, Douglas County, Nevada, 1984-85: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-565, iv, 18 p. :map ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr87565.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Data on surface-water quality and quantity, lower Edgewood Creek basin, Douglas County, Nevada, 1984-85 |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 87-565 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr87565 |
| Year Published | 1988 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Description | iv, 18 p. :map ;28 cm. |