Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Evaluation of Illinois stream sediment data: facility monitoring:
Sampling Purpose: The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (ILEPA) obtained Illinois River sediment samples near the vicinity of the 3M discharge near Cordova, Illinois as part of a facility monitoring effort. The sediment analysis was conducted as a screening device to detect and identify contaminants periodically released from a point source discharge that are not readily detected by routine water quality sampling procedures. A total of three sediment grab samples were analyzed for volatile matter content, total nitrogen, metals, organochlorines, fungicides, and polychlorinated biphenyls.
Number of Observations (samples) in Data Set: 3
Institution Providing Data: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Data Set No. 12:
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Data source variables
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Sample variables
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Classes of Contaminants (in both data set 12 and other data sets)
Inorganic contaminants:
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Metals, metalloids, nutrients and others
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Organic contaminants:
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Organochlorine insecticides
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Fungicides
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
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Content manager: Michelle Bartsch
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library/sediments_contaminants/datasets/12.html
Page Contact Information: Contacting the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Page Last Modified:
January 29, 2016
