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Extreme Precipitation Appears a Key Driver of Mercury Transport from the Watershed to Cottage Grove Reservoir, Oregon

Creator:

Curtis, Lawrence R., Morgans, Donna L., Thoms, Bryn, and Villenueve, Daniel

Abstract:

An abandoned cinnabar mining and roasting site is in the major sub-basin of the watershed for Cottage Grove Reservoir, Oregon. Average surface sediment total mercury concentration in the river draining this sub-basin (0.61±0.52 μg /g) was about ten-fold higher than three smaller tributaries to the reservoir. Total mercury in reservoir...

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