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Missouri River Non-wadeable Tributaries

• Timeframe: 2007 - 2010
• Location: Non-wadeable tributaries of the Missouri River.
• Point-of-Contact: Debbie Baker

The majority of past biological and physiochemical assessment efforts have focused on developing tools for use in wadeable streams and the subsequent monitoring of these streams using targeted monitoring design. Most state monitoring programs within USEPA Region 7 have included a limited number of large river sites and no probability based sampling programs for non-wadeable flowing water have been completed in this region, although the Great River Ecosystems (GRE) project within the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) has generated a fairly robust dataset for those portions of the Lower Missouri River and Upper Mississippi River that are designated waters of USEPA Region 7.

CPCB is assessing the ecological conditions of large, non-wadeable tributaries of the Missouri River in USEPA Region 7. We are sampling 40 randomly selected sites using the National Rivers and Streams Assessment protocols. We will use the 25th percentile statistical method to select reference sites from these 40.

The collection and comparison of data from randomly selected test sites and reference sites will provide: 1) general status and trend data on non-wadeable tributary health, 2) a test of the reference selection process and methodology, and 3) information on those abiotic and biotic indicators that best differentiate between reference and randomly selected test sites.

This project is funded by USEPA ORD, REMAP, and the Mid Continental Ecology Division.

Data

Click here to download the MSAccess database (4.7 GB .mdb).

For a site map visit http://www.kars.ku.edu/CPCBSamplingSites, activate the layer FieldSitesTribs_2008-2009_FED46990_alb

ID	name	visit 1	visit 2	lat	long	state	site	sample
1	Big Sioux River	2/Jun/2009	25/Jun/2009	42.94860	-96.50810	SD/IA	1	1 & 2
4	Platte River	26/Jun/2008	30/Jul/2008	41.12730	-97.92360	NE	2	3 & 4
5	Floyd River	24/Jun/2009	9/Jul/2009	42.72950	-96.22170	IA	3	5 & 6
9	Little Sioux River	7/Jul/2009	11/Aug/2009	43.01140	-95.04420	IA	4	7 & 8
12	Niobrara River	17/Jul/2008		42.84110	-98.88940	NE	5	9
13	Boyer River	27/May/2009		41.88680	-95.58650	IA	6	10
14	Chariton River	17/Jun/2009		40.36460	-92.68590	MO	7	11
15	Kansas River	30/Jul/2009		39.03320	-95.32280	KS	8	12
17	Gasconade River	14/Jul/2009		38.26030	-91.81400	MO	9	13
22	Kansas River	20/May/2009		38.97780	-95.02950	KS	10	14
26	Grand River	28/Jul/2009		39.66210	-93.28390	MO	11	15
28	Niobrara River	29/Jul/2008		42.79420	-98.61620	NE	12	16
29	Nodaway River	29/Jul/2009		40.12660	-95.05150	MO	13	17
31	Kansas River	21/May/2009		39.18090	-96.55140	KS	14	18
32	Niobrara River	15/Jul/2008		42.72300	-99.55860	NE	15	19
34	Gasconade River	15/Jul/2009		38.11270	-91.90150	MO	16	20
35	Big Sioux River	3/Jun/2009		42.92720	-96.53450	SD/IA	17	21
40	Platte River	25/Jun/2008		41.39240	-97.33690	NE	18	22
41	Chariton River	17/Jun/2009		40.40380	-92.66780	MO	19	23
42	Grand River	27/Jul/2009		39.73860	-93.53450	MO	20	24
46	Gasconade River	15/Jul/2009		38.39260	-91.82010	MO	21	25
47	Vermillion River	22/Jul/2009		43.33050	-97.01630	SD	22	26
50	Osage River	16/Jul/2009		38.19970	-92.62120	MO	23	27
51	Floyd River	24/Jun/2009		42.70250	-96.25120	IA	24	28
56	Platte River	18/Jun/2008		41.36110	-96.43110	NE	25	29
63	Vermillion River	23/Jul/2009		43.22290	-96.95400	SD	26	30
67	Big Sioux River	4/Jun/2009		42.87990	-96.53870	SD/IA	27	31
68	Little Sioux River	8/Jul/2009		42.91760	-95.11120	IA	28	32
69	Chariton River	18/Jun/2009		39.98230	-92.68090	MO	29	33
79	Vermillion River	21/Jul/2009		42.98610	-96.97730	SD	30	34
80	Boyer River	28/May/2009		41.89060	-95.58290	IA	31	35
84	Little Sioux River	12/Aug/2009		42.60460	-95.68470	IA	32	36
96	Boyer River	5/Aug/2009		41.71790	-95.71790	IA	33	37
102	Grand River			39.69900	-93.34630	MO	34	38
320	Floyd River	13/Aug/2009		42.73160	-96.21560	IA	35	39
322	Boeuf Creek			38.54140	-91.29570	MO	36	40
335	Lotre River			38.94060	-91.61681	MO	alt	alt.
227	Boyer River (4th site)	4/Aug/2009				IA	37	41

 

Analysis, Results, or Reports

FINAL REPORT BODY (pdf)

FINAL REPORT APPENDICES (pdf)

PROTOCOLS

QAPP, 2008 (pdf)

Periphyton & Phytoplankton - CPCB methods (pdf)

National Rivers and Streams Assessment protocols (19MB pdf).

Maps, Images, or Photos

Filtering in the field is fun.	Alex & Adam on the shock boat on the Big Sioux River, Iowa.
Kim joyfully records habitat data.	Ben & Eric measure thalweg.
Bob models the electrofishing setup - livewells, generator, etc.	Navagating through trees on the Little Sioux River, Iowa.

 

 

2007 - Our first sampling event on the Kansas River: