Abstract |
The study includes data from the main stem of the Salt River as well as from the Beech Fork and its principal tributary, the Chaplin River. In addition, an intensive study has been made of the water chemistry and bottom fauna of Brashears Creek, a principal tributary that enters the Salt Fork at Taylorsville with the following objectives in mind: to assess the ecological conditions in the areas of the Salt River, Kentucky, which will be subsequently impounded and to determine the economic status of the urban and agricultural areas of the Salt River Basin in order to assess the effects of dam construction, river impoundment, and the changes that occur in the economic and political structure of the communities in the basin following impoundment. |