Water Quality in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1992-95

U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1164

Contents National water-quality assessment program Summary of major issues and findings Environmental setting Environmental setting-general (228 kb PDF file) Environmental setting-land use or (for fast connections) Environmental setting (1,100 kb PDF file) Study design and data collection (216 kb PDF file) Hydrologic conditions (220 kb PDF file) Water-quality conditions during flooding caused by Tropical Storm Alberto, July 1994 (200 kb PDF file) Major issues and findings: Pesticides in streams (344 kb PDF file) Pesticides in ground water (32 kb PDF file) Nutrients and suspended sediment in streams (96 kb PDF file) Nutrients in ground water (48 kb PDF file) Trace elements and organic compounds in bed sediment (408 kb PDF file) Historical trends in water quality determined from reservoir cores (132 kb PDF file) Biological indicators of water quality (260 kb PDF file) Water-quality conditions in a national context (628 kb PDF file) Summary of compound detections and concentrations (section not currently available on the Web) References Glossary

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