Upper Yakima River Basin Water Quality Monitoring for Aquatic Life: Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and pH – Data Summary
Date published: July 2021, revised January 2023
Authors: Urmos-Berry, et al., Washington State Department of Ecology
Reference:
Urmos-Berry, Eiko, Evan Newell, and Jim Carroll. 2023. Upper Yakima River Basin Water Quality Monitoring for Aquatic Life: Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and pH – Data Summary. Washington State Department of Ecology. Publication No. 21-03-005. July 2021; Revised January 2023.
Abstract:
Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) monitored the Upper Yakima River basin and its major tributaries from late February 2019 through November 2019 for the Upper Yakima River Basin Water Quality Monitoring for Aquatic Life Parameters Study (Aquatic Life) (Carroll, 2019).
Monitoring took place at 50 locations, including two groundwater locations. Sampling for laboratory analysis occurred every two weeks. In addition to sampling, telemetered monitoring stations and other water quality data loggers continuously collected measurements from AprilNovember, while other sensor installations captured short-term diel measurements from other locations throughout the basin.
Laboratory data were collected for alkalinity, total organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, orthophosphate, total phosphorus, and total persulfate nitrogen. Field data were collected for pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, water temperature, air temperature, dew point, nitrate, light attenuation in water, and water time of travel, channel geometry, longitudinal surface water quality, and groundwater quality information. Under a congruent study, the Upper Yakima River Basin Suspended Sediment and Turbidity Status Monitoring Study (Sediment and Turbidity) (Carroll and Urmos-Berry, 2019), data were collected for total suspended solids, total non-volatile suspended solids, turbidity, and streamflow. Results from the data collected under this study will be published in a separate report.
This report summarizes laboratory and field water quality data collected for the Aquatic Life study and includes quality assurance analysis.
Contact person/agency: Department of Ecology
File Format: pdf
Associated Data:
Spatial Data
- Summary: Contains the location of the Naneum Creek water quality monitoring site. The included dataset is limited only to the sites within the KRD Whiskey-Currier study area.
- File Format: ESRI Shapefile
- Coordinate System: WGS 1984
- Contact: Department of Ecology
