Evaluation of mercury loads from climate change projections

Paul Conrads; Paul M. Bradley; Stephen T. Benedict; Toby D. Feaster

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Evaluation of mercury loads from climate change projections

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Authors:

Paul Conrads, Paul M. Bradley, Stephen T. Benedict, Toby D. Feaster

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 302 p.

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Abstract

McTier Creek is a small coastal plain watershed located in Aiken County, South Carolina. McTier Creek forms part of the headwaters for the Edisto River basin, which is noted for having some of the highest recorded fish-tissue mercury concentrations in the United States. A simple water-quality load model, TOPLOAD, which was developed for McTier Creek, utilizes a mass balance equation in conjunction with hydrologic simulations from the topography-based hydrological model - TOPMODEL. TOPLOAD is an effective tool for analyzing the relative flux contribution of the simulated surface and groundwater flow paths in TOPMODEL.

Parent Publication

Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management - Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Citation

Conrads, Paul; Bradley, Paul M.; Benedict, Stephen T.; Feaster, Toby D. 2016. Evaluation of mercury loads from climate change projections. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.