Nutrient loading and selected water-quality and biological characteristics of Dickinson Bayou near Houston, Texas, 1995-97
Date
1998
Authors
East, Jeffery W., Edna M. Paul, and Stephen D. Porter
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Publisher
U.S. Geological Survey
Abstract
Data were collected at 10 stations in the Dickinson Bayou watershed near Houston, Texas, from March 1995 through February 1997 to estimate the concentrations, loads, and yields of selected nutrients that enter the bayou; to characterize the effects on nutrient concentrations of flow conditions, seasonality, and land use; and to identify nutrient sources (point or nonpoint) inferred from the occurrence and abundance of algal species in the benthic algal community. These data included rainfall samples, streamflow measurements, stream water-quality samples, and biological samples, in addition to quality-assurance/quality-control samples.
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73 pgs.
Keywords
nutrient loading, water quality, benthic algae, point source pollution, nonpoint source pollution, nutrient pollution, algae