Ecological data collected in the Santee River basin and coastal drainages, North and South Carolina, 1996–98

Open-File Report 2001-352
Prepared as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, Santee River Basin and Coastal Drainages Study Unit
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Abstract

As part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, ecological investigations were conducted in 23 reaches of 16 streams in the Santee River Basin and Coastal Drainages study unit in North and South Carolina during 1996-98. Habitat characteristics, such as stream width and depth, bank composition, bank vegetative cover, stream shading by overhanging vegetation, and streambed composition were recorded. Algal and benthic invertebrate communities were sampled using quantitative and qualitative techniques. These data will provide information needed to: (1) support findings of the effects of human landuse activities on water quality by augmenting or enhancing physical and chemical water-quality data, (2) provide a basic overview of aquatic community structure in selected stream reaches in the study unit, and (3) provide a means for comparing aquatic communities in subsequent years of the assessment program.

Suggested Citation

Abrahamsen, T.A., 2001, Ecological data collected in the Santee River basin and coastal drainages, North and South Carolina, 1996–98: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001–0352, 83 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr01352.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Data-Collection Methods
  • Summary
  • Selected References
  • Appendixes
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Ecological data collected in the Santee River basin and coastal drainages, North and South Carolina, 1996–98
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 2001-352
DOI 10.3133/ofr01352
Year Published 2001
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) South Atlantic Water Science Center
Description vi, 83 p.
Country United States
State North Carolina, South Carolina
Other Geospatial Santee River Basin
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