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Habitat and biological assemblage data of streams within Tribal lands of the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2017-18

Dates

Start Date
2017-02
End Date
2018-08
Publication Date

Citation

Driver, L.J. and Hicks M.B., 2022, Habitat and biological assemblage data of streams within Tribal lands of the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2017-18: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BX5Z48.

Summary

This data release contains habitat survey data (quantitative and qualitative) and biological assemblage data (periphyton, macroinvertebrate, and fish) collected among 8 stream sites within the Tribal lands of the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI). The MBCI is a Federally recognized Native American Tribe and the Pearl River Community, located near Philadelphia, Mississippi, is responsible for protecting the quality of surface waters from point and non-point sources of pollution and restoring waters considered impaired of their designated use. The MBCI cooperated with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct a baseline study at selected stream sites within and contiguous to the Pearl River Community. [...]

Contacts

Originator :
Lucas J Driver, Matthew B Hicks
Metadata Contact :
Lucas J Driver
Project Chief :
Matthew B Hicks
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		117.18 KB application/fgdc+xml
habitat_quantitative.csv 11.3 KB text/csv
habitat_qualitative.csv 903 Bytes text/csv
periphyton.csv 159.77 KB text/csv
macroinverts.csv 49.68 KB text/csv
fish.csv 24.01 KB text/csv

Purpose

The purpose of this data release is to provide stream habitat and biological data for use in the determination of baseline conditions and to support the design and implementation of a Supplemental 319 Grant to assist in identifying and correcting non-point source pollution and evaluate the effectiveness of solutions employed to address the problems. Data from these monitoring efforts, in addition to water quality sampling, may be used by USGS and MBCI to determine ranges in the water-quality, bed sediment quality and biological community condition at selected sampling sites; identify locations of stream reaches affected by non-point source pollution to build into the watershed plan; provide baseline conditions to provide a pre/post comparison for measures of success after best management practices (BMP) implementation, and provide a foundation of data for use in achieving future surface water quality program goals.

Rights

Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Users are advised to read the data set's metadata thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations.

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