New River Gorge National River fecal coliform study

58 Pages·1991·2.5 MB·English

by  Hebner S.W.

NEW
GORGE
RIVER
National River
Fecal Coltform Study
April-September
1991
National Park Service
New River Gorge National River
Division of Resource Management
and Visitor Protection
Resource Management Section
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NEW RIVER GORGE NATIONAL RIVER
FECAL COLIFORM STUDY
APRIL-SEPTEMBER
1991
Submitted by:
Scott W. Hebner
For New River Gorge National River
Resource Management and Visitor Protection
Resource Management Section
Published November, 1991
Cover adapted from West Virginia Department of
Natural Resources, "New River Gorge National
River: Fecal Coliform Study, April-September
1987-1988."
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2012 with funding from
LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
http://archive.org/details/newrivergorgenatOOhebn
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our thanks is extended to the following people and organizations
for their assistance on this project: New River Gorge National
River Resource Management Staff; Elsa Cook of the USDA Appalachian
Soil and Water Research Laboratory, who came to our rescue several
times; The staff of the USDA lab; Doug Wood, Environmental
Inspector, West Virginia Division of Natural Resources; National
Weather Service Office, Beckley; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Bluestone Dam, Hinton.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Acknowledgements ii
Lists of Tables and Figures iv
Introduction 1
Materials and Methods 5
Results and Discussion 7
Conclusions 16
Figures 2 - 20 19-28
Appendix
Example of data collection sheet A-l
Weather code chart A-2
Dam stage level phone numbers A-3
Tables for the fecal coliform values A-4
Through A-10
Raw data for the 1991 fecal coliform study A-ll
Comments associated with A-ll A-12
Literature Cited 46
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List of Tables and Figures
TABLE PAGE NUMBER
Table New River Gorge National River fecal coliform
3.•
sampling site locations .3
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FIGURE PAGE NUMBER
Figure 1 A map of the sampling area for the 1991 fecal
coliform study at NERI 4
Figure 2 Fecal coliform data for New River at Hinton VC..19
Figure 3 Fecal coliform data for Madam Creek 19
Figure 4 Fecal coliform data for New River at Hinton STP.20
Figure 5 Fecal coliform data for New River at Sandstone. 20
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Figure 6 Fecal coliform data for Lick Creek 21
Figure 7 Fecal coliform data for Meadow Creek 21
Figure 8 Fecal coliform data for Laurel Creek at
Quinnimont 22
Figure 9 Fecal coliform data for New River at Prince 22
Figure 10 Fecal coliform data for Piney Creek 23
Figure 11 Fecal coliform data for Slater's Creek 23
Figure 12 Fecal coliform data for Dunloup Creek 24
Figure 13 Fecal coliform data for New River at Thurmond. .. 24
Figure 14 Fecal coliform data for Arbuckle Creek 25
Figure 15 Fecal coliform data for Mann's Creek 25
Figure 16 Fecal coliform data for Coal Run 26
Figure 17 Fecal coliform data for Keeney's Creek 26
Figure 18 Fecal coliform data for New River at Fayette
Station 27
Figure 19 Fecal coliform data for Wolf Creek 27
Figure 20 Fecal coliform data for Marr Branch 28
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