Watershed impact on stream water quality: A technique for regional assessment

Miles M. Smart; Terry W. Barney; John R. Jones

ABSTRACT:

Information on land use, land cover, geologic bedrock, and soil associations for 21 watersheds in the Missouri Ozark Plateau Province was extracted from generalized, readily available maps. Data sources, sampling procedures, and data base development were examined. This information was integrated with observations of stream water chemistry. Land use and cover information and stream water quality observations from the Spring Creek watershed were used to demonstrate a small-scale digital data base approach to a regional stream-watershed investigation.

Footnotes

Miles M. Smart, formerly with the University of Missouri School of Forestry, is now a research associate at the River Studies Center, Cowley Hall, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, 54601. Terry W. Barney is a research associate in the Geographic Resources Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211. John R. Jones is an associate professor in the School of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, 112 Stephens Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, 65211. This research was supported by the Missouri Water Resources Research Center, U.S. Department of the Interior (Project No. A-111, MO), Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station (Project No. 1760), Missouri Department of Conservation, and Missouri Cooperative Fishery Research Unit. This paper is a contribution from the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. Journal Series Number 8638.
Copyright 1981 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

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