DTIC ADA114818: Quality of Surface Water before pdf

DTIC ADA114818: Quality of Surface Water before

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Samples were collected for 1 year from East Creek, Chaska Creek, and Courthouse Lake in Chaska, Minnesota, to determine the water quality before implementation of a flood-control project proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The creeks had similar water-quality characteristics. Data indicate that ground water may be the primary source of dissolved solids, sulfate, chloride, and chromium in the creeks. The pesticides alachlor, atrazine, simazine, and 2,4-D were found in water samples from both creeks but were well below the lethal concentrations for fish. Courthouse Lake, a 57-foot-deep stream trout lake, had a mean summer trophic-state index of 35. Phytoplankton populations varied seasonally, and blue-green algae were predominant only in late summers. The algal-pollution index was highest in late summer, but did not provide evidence of high organic pollution. The apparently successful recovery of Courthouse Lake from past inundations by Minnesota River floodwaters having total phosphorus concentrations as high as 0.66 milligram per liter suggests that the lake, in time, will also recover from the added runoff expected as a result of implementing the flood-control project.

The runoff could temporarily raise the total phosphorus concentration in the lake from 0.03 to 0.12 milligram per liter and raise the spring trophic-state index from 49 to 69. (Author

• Creator/s: Defense Technical Information Center
• Date: 12/1/1981
• Year: 1981
• Book Topics/Themes: DTIC Archive, Tornes, L H, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ST PAUL MN WATER RESOURCES DIV, *Water quality, Minnesota, Streams, Lakes, Inorganic materials, Nutrients, Organic materials, Carbon, Biochemical oxygen demand, Metals, Oils, Greases, Pesticides, Phytoplankton, Flooding, Flood control

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