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Relation between selected water-quality variables and lake level in Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Relation between selected water-quality variables and lake level in Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon |
| Creator | Fuhrer, Gregory J.; Morace, Jennifer L.; Wood, Tamara M.; |
| Subject | Water quality; Water levels; Water -- Phosphorus content; Water temperature; |
| Coverage | Portland (Or.); Oregon |
| Description | SUMMARY Upper Klamath Lake is a large (140 square-mile), shallow (mean depth about 8 ft) lake in south-central Oregon that the historical record indicates has been eutrophic since its discovery by non-Native Americans. In recent decades, however, the lake has had annual occurrences of near-monoculture blooms of the blue-green alga Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. In 1988 two sucker species endemic to the lake, the Lost River sucker (Deltistes luxatus) and the shortnose sucker (Chasmistes... |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Contributor | Bureau Of Reclamation |
| Date | 1996 |
| Type | text; |
| Format | application/pdf; |
| Source | Fuhrer, Gregory J., Morace, Jennifer L., and Wood, Tamara M., Relation between selected water-quality variables and lake level in Upper Klamath and Agency Lakes, Oregon, Portland, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96–4079, p64 |
| Language | eng; |
| Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
| Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/98 |
