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| Title | South Fork Palouse River Analysis of Ambient Monitoring Data | |||
| Month-Year Published | August 1993 | |||
| Online Availability |
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| Short Description |
The South Fork of the Palouse River (SFPR) at Pullman has long exhibited extremely poor water quality due to high concentrations of bacteria, nutrients, turbidity, and suspended solids. Ecology's Ambient Monitoring Section monitored water quality monthly at four stations in the SFPR drainage in Wateryear 1992 (October 1991-September 1992). (Also see abstract below) | |||
| Publication Number | 93-e25 | |||
| Author(s) | Hallock, D. | |||
| Print Availability |
Not maintained in stock. Copy must be made from archive version.
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| Number of pages | 39 pp. | |||
| Keywords | ambient monitoring, ammonia, bacteria, creek, monitoring, results, river, sediment, stream, suspended sediment, wastewater treatment plant, water, water quality | |||
| Subject Waterbodies |
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| Abstract | Long Description |
The South Fork of the Palouse River (SFPR) at Pullman has long exhibited extremely poor water quality due to high concentrations of bacteria, nutrients, turbidity, and suspended solids. Ecology's Ambient Monitoring Section monitored water quality monthly at four stations in the SFPR drainage in Wateryear 1992 (October 1991-September 1992). These four stations were SFPR at Pullman (a long-term monitoring station upstream of the Pullman Wastewater Treatment Plant), SFPR at Busby, Paradise Creek at the mouth, and Paradise Creek at the Idaho Border. The Moscow Wastewater Treatment Plant is indicated as the primary source of nutrients to the SFPR, upstream of the long-term monitoring station. Bacteria and suspended sediment sources are basin-wide. Results from the long-term monitoring station indicate that concentrations of suspended solids, turbidity, and summer ammonia, while still high, decreased in the 1980s. Concentrations of other constituents remained unchanged. |
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