5.0 Supporting Information (SI)
Bed Sediment Sampling. Deposited Soil sampling. Quality Assurance for
Sediment Sampling.
List of WQM stations with their studied parameters (Table S1), Criteria
for trace metals in soils (mg/kg) (Table S2), PCLs for trace metals in
sediment samples (mg/kg) (Table S3),
Maximum and most recent
historical trace metal concentrations in sampled sediment sites (Table
S4), Total depth, sediment total organic carbon (TOC), and field water
quality parameters measured at the bed layer of waterbodies (Table S5).
Muddy waters in Rivers of Brown, Galveston Bay, and Gulf Mexico in the
aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. (A) On August 31, 2017, 6 days after
Hurricane Harvey’s landfall. Photo captured by Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. (B) through
(D) are Sentinel 2, Level-2A: Bottom of atmosphere reflectance, true
color photos from 9/1/17, 10/1/17, and 10/11/17, respectively (Figure
S1), HSC-GB system segmentation (Figure S2), Spatial distribution of A)
soil type, and B) erosion potential in the Greater Houston metropolitan
(Figure S3), TSS concentrations plotted against the flow rates at the
time of sampling for four of the major bayous in the GHMA (Figure S4),
Grain type distribution in sediment samples collected from the tidal
segments of the HSC-GB system post Hurricane Harvey for different
stations (Figure S5), Deposited soil along Buffalo Bayou in Buffalo
Bayou Park (29.764, -95.384) close to BB5 (see Figure 1 in the
manuscript) Photos taken on 09/17/2017 (Figure S6), Location of
deposited soil sampling stations and tidal sampling location relative to
nearby Superfund sites (Figure S7).