Kentucky Lake KY Sediment Pore Water Chemistry Data

Sediment (core) samples were collected from 14 sites located on two transects of Kentucky Lake Reservoir, located in Western Kentucky. Kentucky Lake is the terminal reservoir of the Tennessee River system and is largely bordered on the eastern shore by undeveloped federal land and on the western shore by primarily agricultural land. The cores were squeezed and the pore water was collected and analyzed for various dissolved chemical constituents. Analytes included in the data set are ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrite nitrogen, soluble reactive phosphorus, silica (SiO2), and dissolved organic carbon.