Accession Number:

ADA161970

Title:

Clarks Hill Lake Water Quality Study.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

APPLIED BIOLOGY INC DECATUR GA

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1982-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

197.0

Abstract:

A study of selected chemical, physical and biological parameters from Clarks Hill Lake, Georgia and South Carolina, was conducted from February to October 1981. Data are presented for 20 sampling sites located in Clarks Hill Lake, its tributaries and portions of the Savannah River downstream from the dam. Water and sediment chemical and physical parameters macroinvertebrate, phytoplankton, zooplankton and periphyton community composition and density bacteriological parameters and pesticide and heavy metal concentrations from tissues of mollusc Corbicula, white catfish and largemouth bass were analyzed.

Descriptors:

• *WATER QUALITY
• BIOLOGY
• PARAMETERS
• WATER
• CONCENTRATION(COMPOSITION)
• RIVERS
• INVERTEBRATES
• SOUTH CAROLINA
• LAKES
• METAL COMPOUNDS
• STREAMS
• GEORGIA
• HEAVY METALS
• DOWNSTREAM FLOW
• ZOOPLANKTON

Subject Categories:

• Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
• Civil Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE