Ecological Characterization of Streams, and Fish-Tissue Analysis for Mercury and Lead at Selected Locations, Fort Gordon, Georgia, June 1999 to May 2000.

摘要

This report presents results of an ongoing stormwater monitoring project conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Army, Environmental and Natural Resources Management Office and Fort Gordon. The monitoring project is intended to provide baseline data related to the physical and biological conditions of selected waterbodies that may be affected by stormwater runoff from urbanized areas at Fort Gordon, and is based on data collected from June 1999 to May 2000. Specifically, this report (1) reviews previous water-quality investigations conducted at Fort Gordon to aid in selecting stream reaches to be assessed; (2) describes physical habitat and fish and invertebrate communities in selected stream reaches; and (3) reports mercury and lead concentrations from muscle tissue of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) collected from three small reservoirs.