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Water quality in the proposed Prosperity Reservoir area, Center Creek Basin, Missouri

Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-22
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri7922

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Abstract

Water in Center Creek basin, Mo., upstream from the proposed Prosperity Reservoir damsite is a calcium bicarbonate type that is moderately mineralized, hard, and slightly alkaline. Ammonia and organic nitrogen, phosphorus, total organic carbon, chemical oxygen demand, and bacteria increased considerably during storm runoff, probably due to livestock wastes. Nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations are probably high enough to cause the proposed lake to be eutrophic. Minor-element concentrations were at or near normal levels in Center and Jones Creeks. The only pesticides detected were 0.01 micrograms per liter of 2, 4, 5-T in one base-flow sample and 0.02 to 0.04 micrograms per liter of 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D in all storm-runoff samples. Fecal coliform and fecal streptococcus densities ranged from 2 to 650 and 2 to 550 colonies per 100 milliliters, respectively, during base flow , but were 17,000 to 45,000 and 27,000 to 70,000 colonies per 100 milliliters, respectively, during storm runoff. Water in Center Creek about 2.5 miles downstream from the proposed damsite is similar in quality to that upstream from the damsite except for higher concentrations of sodium, sulfate, chloride, fluoride, nitrogen, and phosphorus. These higher concentrations are caused by fertilizer industry wastes that enter Center Creek about 1.0 mile downstream from the proposed damsite. (Woodard-USGS).

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Water quality in the proposed Prosperity Reservoir area, Center Creek Basin, Missouri
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 79-22
DOI 10.3133/wri7922
Year Published 1979
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Missouri Water Science Center
Description ii, 26 p.
Country United States
State Missouri
County Jasper
City Carl Junction
Other Geospatial Southwest Missouri
Online Only (Y/N) N
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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