Environmental Pollution and Ecotoxicology in North Carolina
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Water quality monitoring equipment at Mattamuskeet Lake. Credit: USGS
Continuous Water Quality Monitoring at Lake Mattamuskeet (pdf 189Kb).
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with the U.S. Geological Survey to establish two automated water-quality monitoring stations at Lake Mattamuskeet to better understand the lake’s ecology. Managers are concerned that submerged macrophyte populations have declined on the west side of the lake and we are helping determine the extent to which the decline may be due to poor water quality.
