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Surface-Water-Quality Assessment of the Upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin - Spatial Distributions of Geochemicals in the Fine Fraction of Streambed Sediment, 1987

Fitzpatrick, F.A. and J.A. Coleman, 1998, Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4109

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Abstract:
Geochemical data for the upper Illinois River Basin are presented for concentrations of 39 elements in streambed sediment collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the fall of 1987. These data were collected as part of the pilot phase of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program. A total of 372 sites were sampled, with 238 sites located on first- and second-order streams, and 134 sites located on main stems. Spatial distribution maps and exceedance probability plots are presented for aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, boron, cadmium, calcium, carbon (total, inorganic, and organic), cerium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, phosphorus, potassium, scandium, selenium, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, thorium, titanium, uranium, vanadium, yttrium, and zinc. For spatial distribution maps, concentrations of the elements are grouped into four ranges bounded by the minimum concentration, the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and the maximum concentrations. These ranges were selected to highlight streambed sediment with very low or very high element concentrations relative to the rest of the streambed sediment in the upper Illinois River Basin. Exceedance probability plots for each element display the differences, if any, in distributions between high- and low-order streams and may be helpful in determining differences between background and elevated concentrations.

Data Record Period: 1987-1987
Data Record Notes: Fall, 1987

Data Sources: USGS

Features: Sediment

Parameters: Alachlor; Ammonia, total; Ammonia, un-ionized; Arsenic, As; Atrazine; Barium, Ba; Cadmium, Cd; Chromium +3; Chromium +6; Chromium, total; Copper, Cu; DO; Fecal coliform; Hardness; Iron, Fe; Lead, Pb; Manganese, Mn; Mercury, Hg; Nickel, Ni; Nitrate+Nitrite; Nitrate-N; Nitrogen, total; PCBs in Bottom Deposits; PCBs in Whole water sample; PCBs, Fish Tissue; pH; Phosphorus, total; Selenium, Se; Silver, Ag; Temperature; Zinc, Zn

Sites - IEPA Station(USGS Station): DT01(), DT02(5552000), DT03(5551550), DT06(5550000), DT09(5551000), DT11(5551580), DT18(5550320), DT20(), DT22(5549600), DT36(), DT38(5551540), DT41(), DT46(5552500), DT58(), DT69(), DTAB01(), DTB01(5552000), DTD02(551700), DTG02(5550500)