| Abstract: | Urban runoff and overflows from combined sewers affect water quantity and quality in Sugar Creek within the twin cities of Bloomington and Normal, Illinois. Water-quality data from five primary and eight secondary locations showed three basic types of responses to climatic and hydrologic stresses. Stream temperatures and concentrations of dissolved oxygen, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, biochemical oxygen demand, and fecal bacteria showed seasonal variations. Specific conductivity, pH, chloride, and suspended solids concentrations varied more closely with stream discharges. Total organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, biochemical oxygen demand, and fecal coliform and fecal streptococcal bacteria concentrations exhibited variations indicative of intial flushing action during storm runoff. Selected analyses for herbicides, insecticides, and other complex organic compounds in solution and in bed material showed that these constituents were coming from sources other than the municipal sanitary treatment plant effluent. Analyses for 10 common metals: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, and zinc showed changes in concentrations below the municipal sanitary plant outfall. (Woodard-USGS) |
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| ProdID: | 29220 |
| Citation Author: | Prugh, Byron J., Jr. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | vi, 40 p. :ill., maps ;26 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
| Citation Series Code: | WRI |
| Citation Series Number: | 78-78 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Water quality in the Sugar Creek basin, Bloomington and Normal, Illinois; 1978; WRI; 78-78; Prugh, Byron J., Jr. |
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| Citation Year: | 1978 |
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| Text: | Water quality in the Sugar Creek basin, Bloomington and Normal, Illinois; 1978; WRI; 78-78; Prugh, Byron J., Jr. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/usgs_thumb.jpg |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, |
