WSP10262

• File Number: 8170
• Description: Arkansas Basin Water Quality Issues
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1959
• Author: US Dept. of HEW
• Title: Data Report - Arkansas-Red River Basins - Water Quality Conservation Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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INTRODUCTION

This is a supplementary report on the Arkansas-Red River

Basins Water Quality Conservation Project. The first progress

report appeared in June 1958 and included a complete description

of the project, its purpose and scope. Also included in the

initial report were various Tables and Plates, some of which have

been included in this Data Report for convenience sake. Additional

copies of both reports may be obtained by writing the Public Health

Service, Washington 25, D. C, or the Region VII office of the Public

Health Service, 1114 Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas.

Briefly, the Arkansas-Red River Basins Wster Quality

Conservation Project was initiated by the Public Health Service to

determine factors which cause mineral degradation of the waters of

the Arkansas and Red Rivers. Much of this pollution is known to

originate from highly concentrated salt springs, areas of salt water

seepage and outcrops of gypsum. Man-made pollution is also of

considerable magnitude below oil fields where effective reinjection

of brine is not practiced.

Included in this report are all available quality data from

daily sampling stations on the Arkansas and Red Rivers and their

tributaries for which corresponding flow messurements were made.

Results, therefore, are given in tons of minerals per day as well as

concentration of minerals in parts per million and river discharges

in cubic feet per second,

The following explanation is given of the terminology used in

Data Summary Sheets,

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