Estimated effects on water quality of Lake Houston from interbasin transfer of water from the Trinity River, Texas

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dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noGB 701 .W375 no.00-4082 GBAYen_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorLiscum, Freden_US
dc.contributor.otheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:37:43Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:37:43Z
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description50 pgs.en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractThe city of Houston is considering the transfer of water from the Trinity River to Lake Houston (on the San Jacinto River) to alleviate concerns about adequate water supplies for future water demands. U.S. geological survey, in cooperation with the city of Houston, conducted a study to estimate the effects on the water quality of Lake Houston from the transfer of Trinity River water. A water quality model, CE-QUAL-W2, was used to stimulate six water-quality properties and constituents for scenarios of interbasin transfer of Trinity River water. Three scenarios involved the transferred Trinity River water augmenting stream flow in the east fork of Lake Houston, and three scenarios involved the transferred water replacing stream flow from the west fork of the San Jacinto River. The estimated effects on Lake Houston were determined by comparing volume-weighted daily mean water temperature, phosphorus, ammonia, nitrogen, algal biomass, and dissolved oxygen simulated for each of the transfer scenarios to simulations for a base dataset. The effects of the interbasin transfer on Lake Houston do not appear to be detrimental to water temperature, ammonia nitrogen, or dissolved oxygen. Phosphorus and nitrite nitrogen showed fairly large changes when Trinity River water was transferred to replace west fork San Jacinto river stream flow. Algal biomass showed large decreases when trinity river water was transferred to augment east fork lake Houston stream flow and large increases when trinity river water was transferred to replace west fork San Jacinto river stream flow. Regardless of the scenario simulated, the model indicated that light was the limiting factor for algal biomass growth.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeLake Houstonen_US
dc.geo-codeHoustonen_US
dc.geo-codeHarrisen_US
dc.geo-codeTexasen_US
dc.geo-codeUnited Statesen_US
dc.history10/18/05 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/26257
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Circulating Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeAustin, TXen_US
dc.publisherU.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Surveyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries9161.00en_US
dc.relation.urien_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesWater resources investigations report no.00-4082en_US
dc.subjectwater qualityen_US
dc.subjectwater transferen_US
dc.subjectwater supplyen_US
dc.titleEstimated effects on water quality of Lake Houston from interbasin transfer of water from the Trinity River, Texasen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issueen_US

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