Posted on December 29, 2008 by quintascott
It happened again on Saturday: Warm moist air hit a cold front and dumped inches and inches of rain, two inches in two hours in west-central Illinois, melting ice and snow and bringing flooding once again to the Midwest. The Mississippi rose 2.83 feet at St. Louis on Saturday, 9.68 inches on Sunday, and 4.o5 [...]
Filed under: Climate Change, Fine Art Photography, Flood of 2008, Mississippi River, Nine-Foot Navigation Channel, Photography, Upper Mississippi, Water Quality | Tagged: Kiser Creek, Lock and Dam 22, Lock and Dam 24, Mississippi River, Sny Island | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 15, 2008 by quintascott
East Channel: Prairie du Chien
Crawford County, Wisconsin
“In the Upper Mississippi, half-buried in silt and sand, are scattered congregations of naiad mussels. They are simple creatures, little more than two strong shells or ‘valves’ enclosing a soft, formless body. Blind and virtually brainless, they lie on the river bottom with shells agape, laved in the [...]
Filed under: Dead Zone, Fine Art Photography, Mississippi River, Mussels, Photography, Upper Mississippi, Water Quality, Zebra Mussel | Tagged: Mississippi River, Hypoxia, Prairie du Chien, Higgens Eye Mussel, low-oxygen water, Island #172, photograph, East Channel | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 14, 2008 by quintascott
Big Creek Watershed: Boat Gunwale Slash
Monroe County, Arkansas
The goal of the 1972 clean water act was to render the nation’s lakes and streams “fishable and swimmable.” We Americans spent billions to clean up sewage and other dumped materials from rivers in the first years following passage of the act only to learn that water quality [...]
Filed under: Fine Art Photography, Photography, Water Quality, White River Basin | Tagged: Algae, Big Creek, Boat Gunwale Slash, Hypoxia, Photo, Western Lowlands | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 12, 2008 by quintascott
In the Spring of 2008 it rained and rained just as Midwest farmers had fertilized their fields with nitrogen-based fertilizers. The rain washed the fertilizers into streams that flow to the Mississippi, which carried them to the Gulf of Mexico.
When the nitrate-laden freshwater from the Mississippi, lighter than the Gulf’s saltwater, reaches the Gulf, it [...]
Filed under: American Bottom, Dead Zone, Fine Art Photography, Flood of 2008, Mississippi River, Photography, Upper Mississippi, Water Quality, Waterloo Illinois | Tagged: Missouri River, Fertilizer, Nitrate Nitrogen, Fountain Creek, EPA, National Research Council | Leave a Comment »
