Water-Quality Assessment of the Ozark Plateaus Study Unit: Arkansas, Kansas,Missouri, and Oklahoma. Organic Compounds in Surface Water, Bed Sediment, and Biological Tissue, 1992-95. National Water-Quality Assessment Program

摘要

The purpose of this report is to summarize organic-compound information for thestudy unit. In this report, organic compounds refer both to pesticide and semi-volatile compounds. The information summarized includes: pesticide-use data, description of the sampling network, and an assessment of recent (1992-95) conditions. This information will be used as a guide for future data-collection activities. This report includes (1) a brief overview of the environmental setting of the study unit; (2) a summary of pesticide-use data for 1987-91; (3) a description of the surface-water, bed-sediment, and biological-tissue sampling networks; and (4) an assessment of conditions using statistical summaries of organic-compound data collected during water years (October 1 through September 30) 1992-95.