Steel Creek habitat formers: L Lake/Steel Creek Biological Monitoring Program, January 1986--December 1987

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6354705

Firth, P; Breiner, M S; Hammond-Beyer, C D; Hooker, K L; Stiner, S A

This portion of the L-Lake/Steel Creek Biological Monitoring Program evaluated the impact of L-Reactor operations on the floodplain communities and channel habitat structure in the Steel Creek-Meyer's Branch system in 1986 and 1987. The floodplain community was evaluated quarterly along two transects at each of the 12 Steel Creek sites, and the one site on Meyer's Branch. These sites fell into four broad groups of floodplain habitat: mixed deciduous forests that were inundated periodically (downstream channel and Meyer's Branch); forested wetlands (corridor sites and delta Station 295); mixed forested/scrub-shrub nonpersistent wetlands (Stations 300, 310, 320 and 330); and mixed deciduous swamp forests (Stations 340 and 350). The extent of floodplain inundation at the forested wetland sites was influenced by L-Lake discharges and varied greatly throughout this study. During high discharge periods, the corridor floodplain became part of the stream channel. 79 refs., 21 figs., 39 tabs.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Lab., Aiken, SC (USA); Environmental and Chemical Sciences, Inc., Aiken, SC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001
• OSTI ID: 6354705
• Report Number(s): DPST-88-653; ECS-SR-69; ON: DE89007952
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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