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Main Title Contaminant Loading from Fox River to Lower Green Bay.
Author Abdelrhman, M. A. ; Paul, J. F. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab.-Narragansett, Newport, OR. ;Kuwait Inst. for Scientific Research, Safat.
Publisher c1989
Year Published 1989
Report Number EPA/600/J-89/493 ;ERLN-1120;
Stock Number PB91-144758
Additional Subjects Mathematical models ; Environmental transport ; Water pollution ; Green Bay ; Fox River ; Industrial wastes ; Wind(Meteorology) ; Hydrodynamics ; Water flow ; Stream flow ; Lake Michigan ; Currents(Water) ; Great Lakes ; Vertical migration ;
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NTIS  PB91-144758 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The heavily industrialized lower reach of the Fox River, downstream of the DePere Dam, and lower Green Bay, Lake Michigan, are modeled. Hydrodynamics and contaminant transports to the bay are obtained from three-dimensional numerical models. The effect of outfalls located on the river is included in the analysis. Model results indicate that the contaminant transport in the river is dominated by: the dam outflow, which tends to slowly flush contaminants downstream through the river and into the bay; winds which vertically mix contaminants in the river and produce uniform vertical distributions; and bay seiche activity which delays loadings to the bay during half the seiche cycle then enhances it during the other half. Wind mixing, wind-generated currents, and seiching control contaminant transport in the lower bay.