Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
An Intensive Survey of the Fox, Des Plaines, and Du Page River Basins (3 reports combined):
Sampling Purpose: The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (ILEPA) completed bed-sediment sampling of the Fox, Des Plaines, and Du Page River Basins in 1982-1984. Sediment grab samples were analyzed for volatile matter, total nitrogen, metals, organochlorines, and polychlorinated biphenyls. In addition to sediment sampling, water quality, habitat, macroinvertebrate, and fish data were also collected. The particle size data that was entered in the database was calculated from the habitat sampling data. Because the particle size classifications in this report differed from those entered in the database, the particle size values may not total 100%.
Number of Observations (samples) in Data Set: 82
Institution Providing Data: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Data Set No. 13:
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Data source variables
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Sample variables
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Classes of Contaminants (in both data set 13 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/13.html
Page Contact Information: Contacting the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Page Last Modified:
January 29, 2016
