Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Water-quality assessment of the Upper Illinois River Basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin: major and trace elements in water, sediment, and biota, 1978-90:
Sampling Purpose: The U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Division collected bed-sediment samples from the Illinois River Basin for the National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA) in 1980. This report describes concentrations of major and trace elements in three components (water, sediment, and biota) of the aquatic environment in streams of the upper Illinois River Basin, so that the effects and fates of trace elements throughout the food chain can be more completely understood. Composite grab samples were collected from the Illinois, Kankakee, Des Plaines, Fox, Little Calumet, and North Branch Chicago rivers, and were analyzed for metals.
Number of Observations (samples) in Data Set: 9
Institution Providing Data: U.S. Geological Survey
Data Set No. 31:
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Data source variables
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Sample variables
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Classes of Contaminants (in both data set 31 and other data sets)
Inorganic contaminants:
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Metals, metalloids, nutrients and others
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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/31.html
Page Contact Information: Contacting the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Page Last Modified:
January 29, 2016
