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A one year physicochemical survey was conducted on the Tongue River Reservoir, a run of the river impoundment in southeastern Montana. The Tongue River was the only significant inflow and supplied 93, 96 and 97% of the nutrient, major ion and water inputs to the impoundment. Heat advected from inflowing water accounted for 17% of the energy gained during the summer heating cycle. The annual nutrient load to the reservoir from the river was 20.2 g m−2 total nitrogen (TN) and 3.8 g m−2 total phosphorus (TP). Due to the absence of reducing conditions at depth and the complex seasonal pattern of water movement through the reservoir, 99% of the TN load was discharged but 49% of the TP load was retained in the reservoir.
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Whalen, S.C., Leathe, S.A., Gregory, R.W. et al. Physicochemical limnology of the Tongue River Reservoir, Montana. Hydrobiologia 89, 161–176 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00006169
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