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| Title | Quality Assurance Project Plan: Comparison of Stream Temperature Monitoring Protocols used by the Environmental Monitoring and Trends Section | |
| Month-Year Published | December 2005 | |
| Online Availability |
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| Short Description |
This is the quality assurance project plan for the Comparison of Stream Temperature Monitoring Protocols used by the Environmental Monitoring and Trends Section. (Also see abstract below) | |
| Publication Number | 05-03-205 | |
| Author(s) | Butkus, S. | |
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| Number of pages | 23 pp. | |
| Keywords | environmental, goals, hydrology, monitoring, protocol, quality assurance, quality assurance project plan, stream, temperature, Total Maximum Daily Load, trend, water | |
| Abstract | Long Description |
The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) Stream Hydrology Unit (SHU) operates a streamflow gaging program to obtain information for water resource management needs. Ecology also collects continuous stream temperature data at most of these monitoring stations. These temperature data may be useful for trend analyses, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies, and determining compliance with water quality standards. In addition, Ecology′s Freshwater Monitoring Unit (FMU) measures continuous stream temperature at other locations using a different protocol. The FMU-collected data have been found to have acceptable data quality for the purposes listed above. The goals of this project are to (1) assess the quality of the SHU-collected continuous temperature data in comparison to the FMU-collected data, and (2) assess the quality of the SHU-collected data to meet the purposes of trend detection, TMDL studies, and standards compliance. |
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