Carson River, Nevada

Henny CJ, Hill EF, Hoffman DJ, Spalding MG, Grove RA. 2002. Nineteenth century mercury hazard to wading birds and cormorants of the Carson River, Nevada. Ecotoxicology 11 213-231. 

Terrestrial plants function as conduits for the transport of elemental mercury from the geosphere to the atmosphere (Leonard et al. 1998a). Estimated mercury emissions from plants in the Carson River Drainage Basin of Nevada over the growing season (0.5 mg Hg/m2) add to the soil mercury... 

Nevada-California Carson River Basin Groundwater Welch et al. (1997)... 

Welch, A.H., Lawrence, S.J., Lico, M.S. et al. (1997) Ground-Water Quality Assessment of the Carson River Basin, Nevada and California Results of Investigations, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper, p. 931 sheet. 

Warwick, JJ Lechler, P Douglas, J University of Nevada Reno, NV Collaborative research Transport and fate of mercury within the Carson River Valley National Science Foundation, Division of Earth Sciences... 

AH Welch, MS Lico. Aqueous geochemistry of ground-water with high concentrations of arsenic and uranium, Carson River basin, Nevada. Chem Geol 70 19-19, 1988. 

The most mercury-contaminated site in North America is the Lahontan Reservoir and environs in Nevada. Millions of kilograms of liquid mercury used to process gold and silver ore mined from Virginia City, Nevada, and vicinity between 1859 and 1890, along with waste rock, were released into the Carson River watershed. The inorganic elemental mercury was readily methylated to water-soluble methylmercury. Over time, much of this mercury was transported downstream into the lower reaches of the Carson River, especially... 

Bevans, H. E., Lico, M. S., and Lawrence, S. J., 1998, Water quality in the Las Vegas Valley area and the Carson and Tmckee River Basins, Nevada and California, 1992-96 U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1170, 1170, 47 p. 

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