The role of nutrients in eutrophication is a major water quality issue in many western streams.
Program is to assess how land use practices influence nutrients in streams.
The concentrations of nutrients and chlorophyll a differed between the Palouse River and the South Fork Palouse River, a tributary which receives the majority of its flow from a water treatment plant. Multiple regression results indicated that nitrogen was the limiting nutrient, with solar energy, water temperature, and water velocity influencing algal growth on a more local, reach-specific scale.