Continuous Real-Time Water-Quality Monitoring and Regression Analysis to Compute Constitunt Concentrations and Loads in the North Fork Ninnescah River ... Reservoir, South-Central Kansas, 1999–2012 - Softcover

U.S. Department Of The Interior

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499372078 ISBN 13: 9781499372076

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Cheney Reservoir, located in south-central Kansas, is the primary water supply for the city of Wichita. The U.S. Geological Survey has operated a continuous real-time water-quality monitoring station since 1998 on the North Fork Ninnescah River, the main source of inflow to Cheney Reservoir. Continuously measured water-quality physical properties include streamflow, specific conductance, pH, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. Discrete water-quality samples were collected during 1999 through 2009 and analyzed for sediment, nutrients, bacteria, and other water-quality constituents. Regression models were developed to establish relations between discretely sampled constituent concentrations and continuously measured physical properties to compute concentrations of those constituents of interest that are not easily measured in real time because of limitations in sensor technology and fiscal constraints.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1499372078
• ISBN 13: 9781499372076
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 50