Document Type
Report
Publication Date
10-11-2005
Keywords
Austin Creek watershed, Beaver Creek watershed, Water quality measurements
Abstract
Beaver Creek and Austin Creek were sampled intensively on November 20, 2004 to measure temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total suspended solids, and fecal coliforms. The objective was to assess the amount of variability that can be expected for water quality measurements collected from these creeks at different times during the day and in different locations within the Austin Creek and Beaver Creek watersheds.
Recommended Citation
Matthews, Robin A.; Hilles, Michael; and Vandersypen, Joan, "Austin Creek and Beaver Creek Sampling Project" (2005). Lake Whatcom Other Reports. 3.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/lakewhat_otherreps/3
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Rivers--Washington (State)--Whatcom County; Water quality--Measurement
Geographic Coverage
Whatcom County (Wash.)
Summary data in comma-separated ASCII file
IWS summary_data_ver.xls (34 kB)
Summary data in Excel format
Genre/Form
reports
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Comments
There are two supplemental files with this report: summary_data_ver.xls summary_data_ver.csv
The summary_data_ver.xls file is in Excel format and contains all verified data from the creek walk project. The summary_data_ver.csv file is a comma-separated ASCII file created from the Excel source file.
The column headings and units are described below. Note that data for three parameters, fc, ecoli, and tss, were provided by the City of Bellingham Public Works Department. All missing values are designated "NA"
Column Descriptions
creek
site
ID
instream - y=instream sample from Austin or Beaver Creeks
month
day
year
time - Original time (hr+min)
time2 - Corrected time interval (hr+[min/60])
temp - Temperature (C)
temp.adj - Adjusted temperature (C) =>see report discussion
do.ysi - YSI DO (mg/L)
do.win - Winkler DO (mg/L)
turb - Turbidity (NTU)
fc - Fecal coliforms (cfu/100 mL) =>from COB Public Works Dept
ecoli - E. coli (cfu/100 mL) =>from COB Public Works Dept
tss - Total suspended solids (mg/L) =>from COB Public Works Dept
tn - Total nitrogen, (ug-N/L)
tp - Total phosphorus (ug-P/L)