MEASURING RESUSPENSION OF SEDIMENT BY BARGE TOWS. LONG TERM RESOURCE MONITORING PROGRAM

The Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) is a multipurpose waterway. Commercial navigation, commercial fishing and clamming, recreational boating, hunting, sportfishing, and fish and wildlife conservation are all important uses for the system. The main environmental issue is to establish and maintain a balance between commerce, recreation, and conservation. An earlier effort to measure resuspension of sediment relied on U.S. standard depth-integrating sediment samplers. In designing a new effort to collect field data on resuspension, the advantage of obtaining samples at several points in a single vertical over the depth-integrated sampling procedure was recognized. Typical data are presented and discussed for a straight reach on the Illinois River during low flow in the fall of 1988.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by Fish and Wildlife Service, Onalaska, WI, Environmental Management Technical Center.
• Corporate Authors:

  Illinois State Water Survey Division

  2204 Griffith Drive
  Champaign, IL  United States  61820
• Authors:
  • Adams, J R
  • Bhowmik, N G
  • Delisio, E
• Publication Date: 1993-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Barges; Conservation; Improvements; Sedimentary rocks; Water transportation; Waterways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Resource management
• Geographic Terms: Mississippi River
• Old TRIS Terms: Barge transportation; Sedimentary deposits; Waterway improvement
• Subject Areas: Environment; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00666379
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: EMTC-93-R002
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 15 1994 12:00AM