Geomorphology
Table 1. Gasconade River watershed losing stream reaches sorted by county. Listed streams are over 5.0 miles in length. Compiled by the MDNR Division of Geology and Land Survey 1992.
Table 2. Drainage area of major watersheds, Gasconade River watershed, Missouri (Watersheds in Missouri, USDA, NRCS, 1990). The hydrologic unit (HU) codes -- 10290201 and 10290203 -- are the prefixes to the 11-digit HU (USGS, NRCS) code.
Table 3. Gasconade River watershed (except Big Piney River) streams and the corresponding topographic maps that each stream flows through.
Land Use
Table 4. MORAP Phase I Land Cover acreage for the Upper and Lower Gasconade River watershed. Several other watersheds are listed for comparison to the watersheds in this inventory. Percentage tree cover, grassland, and cropland are also listed.
Table 5. Estimates of days fished per total watershed area in acres on the Gasconade River and selected rivers in Missouri (Weithman 1991).
Table 6. Public land ownership (MDC, MoRAP 1997) and acreage within the Gasconade River watershed including Big Piney River watershed
Hydrology
Table 7. Permanence of stream flow (fishable waters) in third-order and larger streams in the Gasconade River watershed (Funk 1968).
Table 8. Base-flow (cfs) recession characteristics. The average rate of decrease of stream runoff during periods of no precipitation. Recession data from the period of May through October (Skelton 1970).
Table 9. Annual mean discharge and estimated magnitude and frequency of annual low flow. Period of record is listed except where footnoted (MDNR 1996, USGS 1998).
Table 10. Flood frequency data from stream gaging stations in the Gasconade River basin (Hauth 1974).
Water Quality
Table 11. Location and discharge of major springs ( >1,000,000 gal/day) into the Gasconade River watershed. Rate of flow represents records for dates ranging from 1924-72 (Vineyard and Feder 1982).
Table 12. Selected water quality data for the Gasconade River watershed at Phelps County, Hydrologic Unit #10290203, Gage station #06930800 for water years (USGS 1978 - 1998; Code of Regulations 10 CSR 20.7).
Table 13. Fish kills for the last 10 years in streams of the Gasconade River watershed sorted by year within county (Missouri Department of Conservation Environmental Services and East Central files).
Table 14. Contaminants in fish tissue (mg/kg) within sampling sites of the Gasconade River. Sample sites 3 were at Jerome, MO (1), Mt. Sterling, MO (2), Gasconade River @ Highway 50 (3).
Table 15. Major water users (greater than 100,000 gallons of water or more daily) registration summary for counties within the Gasconade River basin. Use totals are shown as 1000 gallons per year rounded to the nearest 1000th. (Reference: Missouri Major Users Database, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Ducharme and Todd 1996).
Table 16. 303(d) pollutant discharges list by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in the Final 1998 303(d) List for Missouri. Category 1 recommended Section 303(d) waters required to have TMDLs analysis.
Table 17. Location of permitted animal waste facilities within the Gasconade River Watershed as of October 1, 1999 (MDNR 1999). * Section is from smallest to largest area.
Habitat
Table 18. Significant natural communities identified in the Natural Features Inventory: Phelps, Pulaski, and Laclede Counties (Ryan 1992).
Table 19. Description of stream improvement projects in the Gasconade River watershed, Missouri (Misssouri Department of Conservation, East Central Region Fisheries, unpublished data).
Table 20. Mean % forested corridor within 1:100K 90-meter buffered streams of Gasconade River 11-digit hydrologic units.
Table 21. Most and least impacted hydrologic units within the Gasconade River watershed (HUC #10290201- and 10290203-) determined using Phase II Land Use/Land Cover MORAP 30-meter resolution satellite imagery that are compared to the Meramec River watershed. Gasconade rating scores the % LULC classes of the Gasconade River HUs according to a derived high and low range.
Table 22. Impacted 14-digit hydrologic units within the Upper Gasconade River watershed (HUC #10290201-) determined using Phase II Land Use/Land Cover MORAP 30-meter resolution satellite imagery. Ratings from 0 (most) to 100 (least) impacted. Gasconade rating scores the % LULC classes of the Gasconade River HUs according to a derived high and low range.
Table 23. Impacted 14-digit hydrologic units within the Lower Gasconade River watershed (HUC #10290203-) determined using Phase II Land Use/Land Cover MORAP 30-meter resolution satellite imagery. Ratings from 0 (most) to 100 (least) impacted. Gasconade rating rates the % LULC classes according to a derived the high and low range.
Table 24. Cross-reference of wetland classification systems. Taken from Epperson (1992).
Table 25. Percentage of total wetland acres for each wetland systems/classes and description within the Gasconade River watershed.
Table 26. Percentage gravel bars acreage per 11-digit hydrologic unit (HU) area within the Gasconade River watershed.
Biotic
Table 27. Fish species collected within the Gasconade River watershed. Represented are both Missouri Department of Conservation Fisheries Research Section and Fisheries Management Section. Historic collections - 1900-96. Recent collections - 1997-99.
Table 28. Living and dead mussel species collected from 1980-94 within streams of the Gasconade River watershed (Missouri Department of Conservation Fisheries Research Collection 1995b).
Table 29. Total specimens, occurrences, and the percentage composition of crayfish species within the Gasconade River watershed (Missouri Department of Conservation 1995a)
Table 30. Benthic macroinvertebrate collections for the Gasconade River from 1962-92 (printout from the Fisheries Research Benthic Collection).
Table 31. Sensitive animal species known from the Gasconade River (printout from the Missouri Department of Conservation's (MDC) Fish Research collection and the Natural Heritage Database, 2000).
Table 32. Estimated angler effort by angling, set line fishing, gigging, and all methods combined (Fleener, G. 1982).
Table 33. Summary statistics of the 1996 Little Piney Creek temperature monitoring project.
GIS Methods Appendix
Table 1-GIS. All wetland types, identified using the Cowardin System, in the Gasconade River watershed were translated into systems, subsystems or classes, modifiers, and descriptions. The description column combines similar attributed polygons into groups of wetland types. Attributes are listed alphabetically (Contact Missouri Department of Conservation).
