LibGuides: Illinois Waters Bibliography: Mississippi River

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
Commercial and Sport Fishes of the Mississippi River Between Caruthersville, Missouri, and Dubuque, Iowa (Barnickol & Starrett 1951)
INHS Bulletin vol. 25 article 5.
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. by Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: 1976
Water quality management basin plan, phase I : Mississippi North Central River Basin. by Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: 1976
Water quality management basin plan, phase I : Mississippi South Central River Basin. by Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Publication 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
by Allison Brigham, Illinois Natural History Survey
Publication Date: 1977
Report 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).

Identification and Priorization of Study Needs Related to the Physical, Chemical, and Biological Impacts of Navigation on the Upper Mississippi River System (Lubinski et al., 1980)
ISWS Contract Report no. 259
Identification of the factors responsible for decreased production of fish food organisms in the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers (Sparks & Sandusky, 1981)
INHS Technical Report
Waste from the water treatment plant at Alton and its impact on the Mississippi River (Evans, 1982)
ISWS Circular no. 156
Long Term Ecological Research: Illinois River and Upper Mississippi River (Large Rivers) Site Report (Sinclair & Lubinski, 1983)
ISWS Miscellaneous Publication no. 73
Evaluation of wastes from the East St. Louis water treatment plant and their impact on the Mississippi River (Shundar et al., 1984)
ISWS Circular no. 160
Increased Durations of High Flows Along the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers: Trends and Agricultural Impacts (Ramamurthy & Singh, 1989)
ISWS Contract Report no. 478

Biologically Significant Illinois Streams : An Evaluation of the Streams of Illinois Based on Aquatic Biodiversity
by Lawrence M. Page, Kevin S. Cummings, Christine A. Mayer, and Susan L. Post
Publication Date: 1992
The 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 Liane B. Suloway; Patrick W. Brown, and Mark G. Joselyn
Publication Date: 1996
The 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 Assessment
Publication Date: 1998
Mississippi Western Five Area Assessment
Publication Date: 2002
Upper Mississippi River Source Water Protection Initiative by Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: 2005
Initiative 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.

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".

Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee (UMRCC) Documents

Annual Proceedings, 2002 -
Full text of the annual proceedings of the Committee
UMRCC Newsletters, 2014 -

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 I Technical Appendices
GREAT II (Guttenberg IA to Saverton, MO): Main Report and Appendices
(December 1980)
Great III (Saverton, MO to Cairo, IL): Final report
(September 1982)
Great III erosion and sediment inventory
(June 1982)