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Water and nutrient transport via groundwater from Ward Valley into Lake Tahoe 1
Author(s) -
Loeb Stanford L.,
Goldman Charles R.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1979.24.6.1146
Subject(s) - groundwater , hydrology (agriculture) , watershed , environmental science , nutrient , nitrate , water table , precipitation , phosphorus , littoral zone , geology , geography , ecology , oceanography , chemistry , geotechnical engineering , organic chemistry , machine learning , meteorology , computer science , biology
The amount of groundwater transported from the Ward Valley watershed into Lake Tahoe during the 1975 water year was 4.1 × 10 6 m 3 . This was 16% of the water volume carried by Ward Creek and 10% of the total precipitation within the watershed during the same period. Of the total nutrient loading of Lake Tahoe from the Ward Valley watershed, groundwater contributed 49% of the total nitrate‐nitrogen and 44% of the total soluble phosphorus loads. Groundwater may be a significant source of water and dissolved nutrients for Lake Tahoe, particularly in the littoral zone.