Spatial and temporal variation in suspended sediment, organic matter, and turbidity in a Minnesota prairie river: Implications for TMDLs

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 165, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 435-447

  Lenhart, Christian F ^a   Brooks, Kenneth N ^a   Heneley, Daniel ^a   Magner, Joseph A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Organic matter; Prairie pothole region; Suspended sediment; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

ELM CREEK; EUTROPHIC LAKES; INORGANIC SEDIMENTS; MINNESOTA; MITIGATION MEASURES; MONITORING STATIONS; NUTRIENT LOADS; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCES; POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCIES; PRAIRIE POTHOLE REGION; RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STREAM BANKS; STREAM CHANNELS; STREAM POWER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TURBIDITY MEASUREMENTS; UPPER MISSISSIPPI; VOLATILE SOLID; WATER QUALITY IMPAIRMENT; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATERSHED RUNOFF;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; HYDRAULICS; LAKE POLLUTION; MONITORING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVERS;

INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER WATER; RUNOFF;

ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER BASIN; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM CHANNEL; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER STANDARD;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINNESOTA; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS; WETLANDS;

MINNESOTA; MINNESOTA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ULMUS;

EID: 77952292772     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0957-y     Document Type: Article

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