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Chemical Composition of Bed Sediment and Water Samples Collected in the Houston Ship Channel or Patrick Bayou outlet near the Patrick Bayou Superfund Site, Deer Park, Texas, 2021

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2021-01-01
End Date
2021-01-11

Citation

Ging, P.B., 2022, Chemical Composition of Bed Sediment and Water Samples Collected in the Houston Ship Channel or Patrick Bayou outlet near the Patrick Bayou Superfund Site, Deer Park, Texas, 2021, U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IOBYCD.

Summary

Patrick Bayou, a section of the Houston Ship Channel near Deer Park, Texas, has accumulated permitted industrial wastewater discharges, municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent, and stormwater runoff from adjacent industrial facilities and nearby urban and residential areas. These discharges are suspected to be the primary sources of the sediment contamination in the Patrick Bayou section of the Houston Ship Channel near Deer Park, Texas. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed Patrick Bayou on the Superfund program’s National Priorities List because of sediment contamination detected in the wetlands bordering Patrick Bayou, posing a threat to downstream fisheries. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Public Information Officer, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
Patricia B Ging
Metadata Contact :
Patricia B Ging
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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patrick_bayou_metadata_updated4.xml
“Metadata file”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		70.42 KB application/fgdc+xml
pb_sampling_photo.JPG
“Sampling in Patrick Bayou. Photo by Jennifer Wilson, USGS” 		thumbnail 1.42 MB image/jpeg
sitemap.jpg
“Map of sampling locations” 		thumbnail 1.03 MB image/jpeg
patrick_bayou_sites.txt
“Site file” 		1.09 KB text/plain
pb_cesium137_results.txt
“Cesium-137 results” 		4.84 KB text/plain
pb_dioxin_furan_results.txt
“Dioxin and Furan results” 		154.41 KB text/plain
pb_pcb_congener_results.txt
“PCB congener results” 		973.19 KB text/plain
pb_toc_results.txt
“TOC results” 		12.79 KB text/plain
pb_qualifier_codes.txt
“Qualifier Codes” 		1.45 KB text/plain
pb_aroclor_results.txt
“Aroclor results” 		50.47 KB text/plain
pb_svoc_results.txt
“SVOC results” 		400.3 KB text/plain
pb_trace_element_results.txt
“Trace element results” 		147.42 KB text/plain
pb_voc_results.txt
“VOC results” 		303.83 KB text/plain

Purpose

The dataset documents the analysis results in the sediment samples collected at 15 locations and water samples collected at five locations near the Patrick Bayou section of the Houston Ship Channel near Deer Park, Texas. Water and sediment samples were analyzed for VOCs, SVOCs, PCBs (including congeners and aroclors), dioxin and furan compounds, trace elements (including mercury and lead), and TOC. Sediment samples were also analyzed for cesium-137.
Sampling in Patrick Bayou. Photo by Jennifer Wilson, USGS
Sampling in Patrick Bayou. Photo by Jennifer Wilson, USGS

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  • USGS Data Release Products
  • USGS Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

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Provenance

Typos corrected in the patrick_bayou_metadata_updated4.xml, pb_aroclor_results.txt, pb_svoc_results.txt, pb_trace_element_results.txt, and pb_voc_results.txt files by Patricia Ging on February 13, 2023.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9IOBYCD

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