Herbicide, nutrient, and suspended sediment data for streams in the Devils Icebox and Hunters Caves

The data set contains concentration, load, and daily discharge data for Devils Icebox Cave and Hunters Cave from 1999 to 2002. The data are available in Microsoft Excel 2010 format. Sheet 1 (Cave Streams Metadata) contains supporting information regarding the length of record, site locations, parameters measured, parameter units, method detection limits, describes the meaning of zero and blank cells, and briefly describes unit area load computations. Sheet 2 (Devils Icebox Concentration Data) contains concentration data from all samples collected from 1999 to 2002 at the Devils Icebox site for 12 analytes and two computed nutrient parameters. Sheet 3 (Devils Icebox SS Conc Data) contains 15-minute suspended sediment (SS) concentrations estimated from turbidity sensor data for the Devils Icebox site. Sheet 4 (Devils Icebox Load & Discharge Data) contains daily data for discharge, load, and unit area loads for the Devils Icebox site. Sheet 5 (Hunters Cave Concentration Data) contains concentration data from all samples collected from 1999 to 2002 at the Hunters Cave site for 12 analytes and two computed nutrient parameters. Sheet 6 (Hunters Cave SS Conc Data) contains 15-minute SS concentrations estimated from turbidity sensor data for the Hunters Cave site. Sheet 7 (Hunters Cave Load & Discharge Data) contains daily data for discharge, load, and unit area loads for the Hunters Cave site.

Atrazine concentrations in Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed (GCEW) were shown to be among the very highest of any watershed in the United States based on comparisons using the national Watershed Regressions for Pesticides (WARP) model and by direct comparison with the 112 watersheds used in the development of WARP. The herbicide data collected in GCEW are documented at plot, field, and watershed scales. This 20-yr-long (1991-2010) effort was augmented with a spatially broad effort within the Central Mississippi River Basin encompassing 12 related claypan watersheds in the Salt River Basin, two cave streams on the fringe of the Central Claypan Areas in the Bonne Femme watershed, and 95 streams in northern Missouri and southern Iowa. The research effort on herbicide transport has highlighted the importance of restrictive soil layers with smectitic mineralogy to the risk of transport vulnerability. Near-surface soil features, such as claypans and argillic horizons, result in greater herbicide transport than soils with high saturated hydraulic conductivities and low smectitic clay content.

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Field	Value
Tags	Environment farming watersheds Water Cropping Systems sediments corn belt
Modified	2021-12-28
Release Date	2014-12-31
Identifier	GoodwaterNutrient_jjm_2015-03-12_1533
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area	POLYGON ((-92.5 40.034, -91.71 40.034, -91.71 39.025, -92.5 39.025))
Publisher	Dryad
Temporal Coverage	January 1, 1999 to January 1, 2002
License	Creative Commons CCZero
Contact Name	Lerch, Robert
Contact Email	bob.lerch@ars.usda.gov
Public Access Level	Public
Program Code	005:040 - Department of Agriculture - National Research
Bureau Code	005:18 - Agricultural Research Service
Source ID	GoodwaterNutrient_jjm_2015-03-12_1533

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Field	Value
Authors	Lerch, Robert (ORCID) Baffaut, Claire (ORCID) Sadler, John (ORCID) Kremer, Robert J. (ORCID)
Peer Reviewed	No
Intended Use	Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) pollution of water resources has been a major environmental problem for decades, resulting in contaminated water supplies, detrimental effects on aquatic and human health, impaired recreational water quality, and formation of the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. At field and plot scales, studies were designed to assess the impact of specific crop management practices, the overall effect of cropping systems, and the variation in soil properties at the landscape scale on N and P transport in surface runoff and to the shallow loess and glacial till aquifers of claypan soils. A key finding of these studies was that field areas with the poorest crop growth were also the most vulnerable to nutrient as well as sediment and herbicide transport. The datasets generated in the 20-yr-long (1991-2010) research effort are documented to study the transport of herbicides to surface and groundwater in the GCEW. A key finding was that near-surface restrictive soil layers, such as argillic horizons of smectitic mineralogy, result in greater herbicide transport than soils with high percolation and low clay content. Because of this, streams in the claypan soil watersheds of northeastern Missouri have exceptionally high herbicide concentrations and relative loads compared with other areas of the Corn Belt.
Use Limitations	Quality assurance (QA) samples were incorporated as part of all field studies and included duplicate, spike, and blank samples. If acceptable duplicate precision was not obtained after several tries, data from the most precise pair were reported and flagged. In many cases, samples were reanalyzed and the QA criteria were met. If the results were unacceptable after reanalysis, the data were not included in the Sustaining the Earth's Watersheds: Agricultural Research Data System (STEWARDS) database.
Funding Sources	Agricultural Research Service
Primary Article	Lerch, R. N., Baffaut, C., Sadler, E. J., & Kremer, R. J. (2015). Long-Term Agroecosystem Research in the Central Mississippi River Basin: Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed and Regional Herbicide Water Quality Data. Journal of Environmental Quality, 44(1), 28-36. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2013.12.0516 AgID: 60267
Dataset DOI (digital object identifier)	10.5061/dryad.bd157bv
Product Type	Dataset

Field	Value
ISO Topic(s)	environment farming
State or Territory	Iowa Missouri
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Term	data collection hunters computer software streams metadata detection limit chemical species suspended sediment turbidity atrazine watersheds models Mississippi River rivers Missouri Iowa mineralogy risk argillic horizons clay fraction
Ag Data Commons Keywords	Agroecosystems & Environment Agroecosystems & Environment Soil Nutrients Agroecosystems & Environment Soil Agroecosystems & Environment Water
Program	Central Mississippi River Basin Long-Term Agroecosystem Research - LTAR

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