Lake Survey - USACE


Start Date: 2007

End Date: 2007

Full Citation:

USACE, 2007, $97,047. "Lake Survey - USACE." PI: A. Dzialowski, Co-PI: N. Lim.

Category:

  • Aquatic

Associated with the KU Field Station: No

Research Summary:

CPCB processed water samples collected by the Kansas City District United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) as part of their Water Quality Program. USACE personnel collected water-quality samples from 18 reservoirs (Kansas, Missouri, nebraska, and Iowa) from May through September 2007.

Reservoirs sampled:

1. Blue Springs Lake

2. Clinton Lake

3. Harry S Truman Lake

4. Harlan County Lake

5. Hillsdale Lake

6. Kanopolis Lake

7. Long Branch Lake

8. Longview Lake

9. Melvern Lake

10. Milford Lake

11. Perry Lake

12. Pomme de Terre Lake

13. Pomona Lake

14. Rathbun Lake

15. Smithville Lake

16. Stockton Lake

17. Tuttle Creek Lake

18. Wilson Lake

Water-quality parameters and Method/Citation:

Total Phosphorus - Ebina et al. 1983

Orthophosphate - SM-4500-P

Total Nitrogen - Ebina et al. 1983

NO3/NO2 - SM-4500-NO3; -NO2

NH3 - SM-4500-NH3

Total Organic Carbon - SM-5310B

Total Suspended Solids - SM-2540D

Sulfate - SM-4110B

Alkalinity - SM-2320B

Atrazine - GC/MS (Thurman et al. 1990)

Alachlor - GC/MS (Thurman et al. 1990)

Geosmin - SPE-GC/MS (Pan 2002)

Herbicides - GC/MS (Thurman et al. 1990): Atrazine, deisopropylatrazine, deethylatrazine, alachlor, metolachlor, simazine, metribuzin, and cyanazine

SM = Standard Methods (APHA et al. 1998)

Images:

Niang Lim runs lake samples through the Lachat Autosampler.