Sediment Deposition Rates and Associated Oxygen Demands in the Deep Water Ship Channel of the San Joaquin River. Stockton, California July-November, 2000  (DRAFT)
Gary M Litton, Ph.D., P.E. & Jason Nikaido

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Water Quality Measurements, Sediment Deposition Fluxes and Settling Velocities
  Methods and Materials
  Water Quality Measurements in the DWSC and San Joaquin River.
       Field measurements
       TSS,VSS, and chlorophyll a water concentrations in the
       DWSC and San Joaquin River.
  Deposition Fluxes of Trapped Sediments in the DWSC
  Settling Velocities of Trapped Sediments in the DWSC.

III. Long-Term Biochemical Oxygen Demand Measurements
  Materials and Methods
  Estimates of the decay constant and ultimate BOD

IV. Constituent Correlations

V. Conclusions & Refrences

VI. Appendices

Appendix A. Water quality data

Appendix B. Trapped Sediment Deposition Fluxes.

Appendix C. Settling Velocities of Trapped Sediment.

DRAFT

Sediment Deposition Rates and Associated Oxygen Demands

in the Deep Water Ship Channel of the San Joaquin River. Stockton, California

July-November, 2000


Prepared for:

San Joaquin River Dissolved Oxygen TMDL Technical Committee
 

Prepared by:

Gary M Litton, Ph.D., P.E.

and

Jason Nikaido

Department of Civil Engineering

University of the Pacific

Stockton, CA

Acknowledgments

Field work, data compilation and analysis was made possible with the assistance of the following University of the Pacific engineering undergraduate students:

Wana Chiu

Shawn Hart

Ingrid Johanson

Jennifer Martinez

Brandon Nakagawa

and

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