Factors affecting water quality and net flux of solutes in two stream basins in the Quabbin Reservoir drainage basin, central Massachusetts, 1983-85
By: by Rochelle L. Rittmaster and James B. Shanley ; prepared in cooperation with the Metropolitan District Commission and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Pollution Control
Contributors: Shanley, James B; Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission; Massachusetts. Division of Water Pollution Control; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Series: Water-resources investigations report -- 94-4003
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey; Earth Science Information Center, Open-File Reports Section [distributor]
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Marlborough, Mass; Denver, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Water quality -- Massachusetts -- Quabbin Reservoir Watershed; Suspended sediments -- Massachusetts -- Quabbin Reservoir Watershed
Description: ...Describes how solute fluxes and stream-water quality are affected by the quality of precipitation, basin hydrologic characteristics, and mineral weathering processes, with special attention to aluminum geochemistry; other effects considered are general biogeochemical processes and the application of highway de-icing salts...
Notes: Shipping list no.: 95-0101-P

Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-66)