Start Date: 1999
End Date: 2003
Full Citation:
Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, 1999 - 2003, $120,000. "TMDL Supplemental Data Assessment Project." PI: D. Huggins.
Category:
- Aquatic
Associated with the KU Field Station: No
Research Summary:
The Clean Water Act requires states to list water bodies that fail to meet water-quality standards. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) have to be developed for these water-quality impaired water bodies. A TMDL represents the allowable load of a pollutant that a water body can receive without exceeding water-quality standards. We collected water-quality data from 42 streams (within the Lower Arkansas, Cottonwood, Neosho, Verdigris, Cimarron, and Walnut Basins) and 4 reservoirs (Pomona, John Redmond, Council Grove, and El Dorado Reservoirs) for possible use in developing TMDLs. Some assessed water-quality parameters included nutrients, chlorophyll a, herbicides, dissolved oxygen concentration, pH, total suspended solids, and bacteria.
TMDL Project Executive Summary on Water Quality of John Redmond, Pomona, Council Grove, and El Dorado Reservoirs and 25 Streams in Southeast Kansas -- Covering activities from 1 May 2000 to 31 December 2000.
Report to Bureau of Environmental Field Services, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, for TMDL Supplemental Data Assessment Project -- Covering activities from April 2001 to November 2001.