Long-term water-quality changes in east fork poplar creek, tennessee: Background, trends, and potential biological consequences

Environmental Management

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1021-1032

  Stewart, Arthur J ^a,b   Smith, John G ^a   Loar, James M ^a,c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c 1712 Nighbert Lane ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Pollution abatement; Pollution control; Recovery; Remedial actions; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

BLOW DOWN; EAST FORK POPLAR CREEK; LONG-TERM CHANGES; MONITORING PERIODS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; OPERATIONAL CHANGES; POLLUTION ABATEMENT; REFERENCE STREAMS; REMEDIAL ACTIONS; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGIES; WATER-QUALITY MONITORING;

DECHLORINATION; EFFLUENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

RIVERS;

CALCIUM; NITRATE; SODIUM; URANIUM; ZINC;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; HEADWATER; PERTURBATION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; STREAMWATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; EFFLUENT STANDARD; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; REVIEW; STREAM (RIVER); SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRATES; RIVERS; SODIUM; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; ZINC;

EAST FORK POPLAR CREEK; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959374595     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9630-7     Document Type: Review

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