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Impact Of Highway Bridge Runoff On Adjacent Receiving Water Bodies, James E. Christopher
Impact Of Highway Bridge Runoff On Adjacent Receiving Water Bodies, James E. Christopher
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
Two locations, Lake Ivanhoe and the Maitland interchange of Interstate 4, were selected to study the impact of bridge runoff on receiving water bodies. The Lake Ivanhoe location includes two similar bridges, one without scuppers and one with scuppers. The Maitland interchange site has several borr ponds which drain to Lake Lucien. Samples were collected from Lake Ivanhoe below the bridges and in the open lake away from the bridges. Also samples were collected from the east pond, west pond, and lake Lucien, at the Maitland interchange. Samples included water, sediments, plants and benthos to detect differences, if any, in …