Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
1974
Keywords
phytoplankton, zooplankton, fish health; water quality
Abstract
Lake Fort Smith, a 525 acre (212 ha) reservoir, was impounded in 1936 as a water supply for the city of Fort Smith. The reservoir is located on Clear Creek (Frog Bayou), a tributary of the Arkansas River, in the Boston Mountains 28 miles (45 km) northeast of the city of Fort Smith in Crawford County, Arkansas. A map and morphometric characteristics of Lake Fort Smith are given in Fig. 1 and Table I (Hoffman, 1951; Nelson, 1952). In 1956 Lake Shepherd Springs, a 750 acre (304 ha) impoundment, was created one mile upstream of Lake Fort Smith (Rorie, 1961). Both lakes have a shale substrate and are subject to periods of high turbidity. The 2 two lakes have a water shed of 65 square mile area (168 km ) of mountainous oak-hickory forest. Lake Shepherd Springs has not acted as a settling basin for sediments; thus, the upper portion of Lake Fort Smith has numerous shallow areas with a mud bottom supporting various submergent and emergent aquatic plants. The lower portion of the lake has a rocky, shale substrate with only limited emergent vegetation.
Citation
Carter, John S.; Hoffman, Carl E.; Olmsted, Larry L.; Kilambi, Raj V.; Cloutman, Donald G.; and Becker, David A.. 1974. Limnological, Ichthyological, and Parasitological Investigations on Arkansas Reservoris in Relation to Water Quality. Arkansas Water Resource Center, Fayetteville, AR. PUB022. 276
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/awrctr/317
Report Number
PUB022
Page
276
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