Download or read book Trends in Suspended-Sediment Loads and Concentrations in the Mississippi River Basin, 1950?2009 written by U.S. Department of the Interior and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in loads and concentrations of suspended sedi-ment and suspended sand generally were downward for sta-tions within the Mississippi River Basin during the 60-, 34-, and 12-year periods analyzed. Sediment transport in the lower Mississippi River has historically been, and continues to be, most closely correlative to sediment contributions from the Missouri River, which generally carried the largest annual suspended-sediment load of the major Mississippi River sub-basins. The closure of Fort Randall Dam in the upper Missouri River in 1952 was the single largest event in the recorded historical decline of suspended-sediment loads in the Missis-sippi River Basin.