Technical Report : Water Resource Baseline Data and Assessment of Impacts from Acidic Precipitation, Acadia National Park, Maine
Kahl JS, Andersen JL, Norton SA. 1985. Technical Report : Water Resource Baseline Data and Assessment of Impacts from Acidic Precipitation, Acadia National Park, Maine. Technical Report Number 16
Contents include: introduction, study area, physical setting, precipitation chemistry, methods, site selection, water chemistry, sediment chemistry, analytical procedures, results, surface water chemistry, sediment chemistry, discussion, sensitivity of ANP waters to acidification, relationship to other surveys, surface water chemistry, inferred historical water chemistry, and conclusions. FIELD WORK: 1982-1984. WATER QUALITY: The chemistry of 18 lakes and ponds and 23 first and second order streams were monitored (1982-1984) to provide baseline data and ascertain water quality. Constituents measured include water temperature, pH, baseflow alkalinity, specific conductance, color, sulfate, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, iron, zinc, silica, aluminum, and manganese. Sargent Mountain Pond was found to be the most acidic. Mean pH of precipitation was 4.4, with wet sulfate loadings of 15-20 kg/ha/yr. Mean acid neutralizing capability was 52 ueq/l. AIR QUALITY: Chemistries of sediment cores taken from Sargent Mountain Pond, The Bowl and Long Pond (Isle au Haut) were analyzed to estimate watershed and atmospheric loading histories. FLORA - VASCULAR: Gives vegetation types associated with each sample site /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Bear Brook Pond/The Bowl/Bubble Pond/Eagle Lake/Echo Lake/Upper Hadlock Pond/Lower Hadlock Pond/Halfmoon Pond/Hodgdon Pond/Jordan Pond/Lake Wood/Long Pond/Little Long Pond/Reservoir/Round Pond/Sargent Mountain Pond/Seal Cove Pond/The Tarn/Witch Hole Pond/Breakneck Brook/Canon Brook/Cromwell Brook/Duck Brook/Heath Brook/Hadlock Brook/Hunters Brook/Kebo Brook/Little Harbor Brook/Stanley Brook/Penobscot Brook/Gilmore Brook/Parkman Brook/ISLE AU HAUT/Long Pond GIS-CATEGORY 2 ; Hydrology: Gives lake chemistry of 18 lakes and 23 streams
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Kahl, Jeffrey; Andersen, Janet; Norton, Stephen
- Date of Issue
- 1985-06
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- Acid Rain, Air Quality, Alkalinity, Aluminum (Al), Bear Brook Pond, Breakneck Brook, Bubble Pond, Canon Brook, Cromwell Brook, Duck Brook, Eagle Lake, Echo Lake, Gilmore Brook, Hadlock Brook, Halfmoon Pond, Heath Brook, Hodgdon Pond, Hunters Brook, Iron (Fe), Isle Au Haut, Jordan Pond, Kebo Brook, Lake Wood, Little Harbor Brook, Little Long Pond, Long Pond, Long Pond, Lower Hadlock Pond, Manganese (Mn), Mount Desert Island, Parkman Brook, Penobscot Brook, pH, Precipitation, Reservoir, Round Pond, Sargent Mountain Pond, Seal Cove Pond, Silica (SiO2), Stanley Brook, The Bowl, The Tarn, Upper Hadlock Pond, Vegetation Types, Water Color, Water Quality, Water Quality, Water Temperature, Witch Hole Pond, Zinc (Zn)