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The effect of calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) deicing material on the water quality of Bear Creek, Clackamas County, Oregon, 1999

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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

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