Nutrient Cycling and Geochemistry of Gills Creek Watershed

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Nutrient Cycling and Geochemistry of Gills Creek
Watershed
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Upstream Sample
Arboretum
Downstream Sample
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Gills Creek

• Drains a small watershed
• Begins on Fort Jackson
• Continues through Columbia
• Remains pristine
• on the Fort

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Gills Creek on Fort Jackson

• Clear dark water
• Numerous trees/roots
• Extensive riparian habitat
• Oligotrophic water

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Gills Creek West of Columbia

• High suspended solids content
• Excessive refuse and pollution
• No riparian zone (few trees and roots)
• Eutrophic water

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Pre Columbia Post Columbia
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Concentrations of nutrients in Water Sources in
Santa Ana Basin, California around wastewater
treatment plantsKent and Belitz, 2004
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