Distribution of dissolved pesticides and other water quality constituents in small streams, and their relation to land use, in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, 1996

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Title Distribution of dissolved pesticides and other water quality constituents in small streams, and their relation to land use, in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, 1996
Creator Anderson, Chauncey W.; Wood, Tamara M.; Morace, Jennifer L.
Subject Watersheds; Water quality; Pesticides; Land use
Spatial Coverage Columbia River; Oregon; Willamette River (Or.)
Description Water quality samples were collected at sites in 16 randomly selected agricultural and 4 urban subbasins as part of Phase III of the Willamette River Basin Water Quality Study in Oregon during 1996. Ninety-five samples were collected and analyzed for suspended sediment, conventional constituents (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, specific conductance, nutrients, biochemical oxygen demand, and bacteria) and a suite of 86 dissolved pesticides. The data were collected to characterize the distribution of dissolved pesticide concentrations in small streams (drainage areas 2.6-13 square miles) throughout the basin, to document exceedances of water quality standards and guidelines, and to identify the relative importance of several upstream land use categories (urban, agricultural, percent agricultural land, percent of land in grass seed crops, crop diversity) and seasonality in affecting these distributions.
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributors Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Agency; Oregon Association of Clean Water Agency
Date 1997
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Digitization Specifications pdf file copied from USGS website (http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Abstracts/97-4268.html). Uploaded into CONTENTdm version 3.7.
Identifier http://or.water.usgs.gov/pubs_dir/Abstracts/97-4268.html
Source Anderson, Chauncey W., Wood, Tamara M. and Morace, Jennifer L., 1997, Distribution of dissolved pesticides and other water quality constituents in small streams, and their relation to land use, in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, 1996, Portland Oregon: U.S.Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4268, 96 p.
Language eng
Rights Management Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS
Holding Institution University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6hq3xtg
Setname wwdl_er
ID 1145732
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6hq3xtg
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