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  • Sediment trap time series data for Beaverdam Reservoir and Falling Creek Reservoir in southwestern Virginia, USA 2018 through 2023
  • Schreiber, Madeline E.; Virginia Tech
    Wood, Cecelia E.; Virginia Tech
    Bauer, Carly E.; Virginia Tech
    Breef-Pilz, Adrienne; Virginia Tech
    Haynie, George; Virginia Tech
    Tipper, Evelyn; Virginia Tech
  • 2024-09-13
  • Schreiber, M.E., C.E. Wood, C.E. Bauer, A. Breef-Pilz, G. Haynie, and E. Tipper. 2024. Sediment trap time series data for Beaverdam Reservoir and Falling Creek Reservoir in southwestern Virginia, USA 2018 through 2023 ver 3. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-28).

  • Sediment traps were deployed to assess the mass and composition (lithium, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, potassium, calcium, iron, manganese, copper, strontium, barium, total organic carbon, and total nitrogen) of settling particulates in the water column of two drinking water reservoirs—Beaverdam Reservoir and Falling Creek Reservoir, both located in Vinton, Virginia, USA. Sediment traps were deployed at two depths in each reservoir to capture both epilimnetic and hypolimnetic (total) sediment flux. The particulates were collected from the traps approximately fortnightly from April to December from 2018 to 2023, then filtered, dried, and analyzed for either lithium, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, potassium, calcium, iron, manganese, copper, strontium, and barium or total organic carbon and total nitrogen (2018 to 2022, due to instrument repairs). Beaverdam and Falling Creek are owned and operated by the Western Virginia Water Authority as primary or secondary drinking water sources for Roanoke, Virginia. The sediment trap dataset consists of logs detailing the sample filtering process, the mass of dried particulates from each filter, and the raw concentration data for lithium (Li), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN). The final products are the calculated downward fluxes of solid Li, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Fe, Mn, Cu, Sr, Ba, TOC, and TN during the aforementioned deployment periods.

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    • N: 37.322865, S: 37.311961, E: -79.813848, W: -79.824834
    • N: 37.309589, S: 37.30266, E: -79.836009, W: -79.839249
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