Images
- 1927 Historical Aerial Photographs, Mississippi River
Aerial photographs of the Mississippi River were acquired in 1927 as a response to the "Great Mississippi Flood of 1927".
Select reports in chronological order
- A Preliminary Report on the Animals of the Mississippi Bottoms Near Quincy, Illinois, in August 1888 (Garman 1890)INHS Bulletin, v. 3 article 9
- The 1912 flood on the lower Mississippi (Frankenfield, 1912)Bulletin Illinois Rivers and Lakes Commission no. 7
- Proceedings of the Organization Meeting of the Association of the Mississippi Valley States for River Control (1912)Bulletin Illinois Rivers and Lakes Commission no. 8
- Pollution of the channel of Mississippi River between Rock Island Arsenal and the cities of Moline and Rock Island
by Paul Hansen and M. C. SjoblomPublication date: 1916
pp. 225-228 in ISWS Bulletin no. 12 (Chemical and biological survey of the waters of Illinois: Report for year ending December 31, 1914)
Temperature and Turbidity of Some River Waters in Illinois
byPublication Date: 1948Illinois State Water Survey Report of Investigation no. 1
Data are presented on the temperature and turbidity of river water at six stations along the Illinois, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. These data are analyzed to show the periods year by year in which certain limiting conditions exist, both as to temperature and turbidity respectively, and
also to determine the correlation of these phenomena within certain limited ranges. The trend in temperature and turbidity variations along the Mississippi River is indicated, and comparative data are offered for all stations.
- A distributional atlas of Upper Mississippi River fishes (Smith et al.,1971)INHS Biological Note no. 73
- Water quality management basin plan, phase I : Mississippi North River Basin. byPublication Date: 1976
- Water quality management basin plan, phase I : Mississippi North Central River Basin. byPublication Date: 1976
- Water quality management basin plan, phase I : Mississippi South Central River Basin. byPublication Date: 1976(print copy available from the University Library, item has not been digitized)
- An Assessment of the Water Quality of the Mississippi River Basin-North Derived from a Biological Investigation
byPublication Date: 1977Report to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency based on macro-invertebrate sampling of 149 sites in July 1976 to evaluate the impact of 35 point sources, with additional sampling to evaluate agricultural non-point source pollution. The predominant stream classifications for sites sampled were "unbalanced" (47% of sites) and "semi-polluted (48% of sites).
- Long Term Ecological Research: Illinois River and Upper Mississippi River (Large Rivers) Site Report (Sinclair & Lubinski, 1983)ISWS Miscellaneous Publication no. 73
- Biologically Significant Illinois Streams : An Evaluation of the Streams of Illinois Based on Aquatic Biodiversity
byPublication Date: 1992The Mississippi River is covered on pp. 418-439. Critical Trends Assessment Project Phase II Inventory of Resource Rich Areas in Illinois: An Evaluation of Ecological Resources by
Publication Date: 1996The Mississippi is covered in the sections on Mississippi-Lower Rock River (pp. 49-53), Nauvoo (pp. 78-82), Big Rivers (pp. 98-103), Karst/Cave Area (pp. 122-126), and Illinois Ozarks (pp. 140-145). The Mississippi is also a prominent feature in several Natural Divisions mentioned throughout the inventory.
Big Rivers Area AssessmentPublication Date: 1998
Mississippi Western Five Area AssessmentPublication Date: 2002Upper Mississippi River Source Water Protection Initiative by
Publication Date: 2005Initiative was to provide increased direct technical assistance and financial assistance over a three-year period to 12 communities along the Mississippi River dependent on the River for their public water supplies.
Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee (UMRCC) Documents
- Annual Proceedings, 2002 -Full text of the annual proceedings of the Committee
Great River Environmental Action Team
During the 1970s, the Great River Environmental Action Team conducted extensive assessments of the Mississippi River, in three sections. Navigation, recreation, wildlife and fisheries, cultural resources, and other aspects were examined.
- GREAT I (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN to Guttenberg IA): Main Report(September 1980)
- Great III (Saverton, MO to Cairo, IL): Final report(September 1982)
- Great III erosion and sediment inventory(June 1982)