Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | The effect of calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) deicing material on the water quality of Bear Creek, Clackamas County, Oregon, 1999 |
Creator | Tanner, Dwight Q.; Wood Tamara M. |
Subject | Water quality; Biochemical oxygen demand; Calcium; Magnesium; Trace elements -- Analysis; Trace elements; Runoff; |
Coverage | Columbia River; Oregon; |
Description | This report presents the results of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey, done in cooperation with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), to evaluate the effects of the highway deicing material, calcium magnesium acetate (CMA), on the water quality of Bear Creek, in the Cascade Range of Oregon. ODOT began using CMA (an alternative deicer that has fewer adverse environmental effects than road salt) in the mid-1990s and began this study with the USGS to ensure that there were no... |
Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
Contributor | Oregon Department of Transportation |
Date | 2000 |
Type | text; |
Format | application/pdf; |
Source | Tanner, Dwight Q. and Wood Tamara M., 2000, The effect of calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) deicing material on the water quality of Bear Creek, Clackamas County, Oregon, 1999, Portland Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 00–4092, 28 p. |
Language | eng |
Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/46 |