Salt River @ Water Users Rec. Area

Description of Site: The closest to the tailwaters of Stewart Mtn. Dam, this site is the most representative of water conditions immediately leaving the Salt River reservoir system.

5/1/00

Physico-chemical Parameters
Time Turbidity (NTU's) Temp (C) DO (ppm) DO (% sat.) pH TDS Ammonia (mg/l) Nitrate (mg/l) Ortho-P (mg/l) Sulfate (mg/l) Dissolved Fe (mg/l) Dissolved Mn (mg/l) Chloride (mg/l)
845 4.1 14.7 7.53 74.5 7.7 750 ND 0.16 ND 55.6 ND ND 304

 
TSS (mg/l) Silica (mg/l) Total N (mg/l) Total P (mg/l) Total Fe (mg/l) Total Mn (mg/l) TOC DOC UV254 Chl a (mg/m3) Pheophytin a (mg/m3)
ND 16.5 4.0 0.16 0.049 0.012 1.7 1.62 0.0402 1.288 0.892

Phytoplankton
Division Genus Units/mL
Chlorophyta Coccomonas 160
Chrysophyta Synedra 80
Chrysophyta Phaeoplaca 80
Chrysophyta Gomphonema 160
Chrysophtya Diatoma 320

Periphyton
Division Genus Units/cm2
Cyanophyta Lyngbya 1336
Chrysophyta Gompnonema 927,666
Chrysophyta Cymbella 742,428
Chrysophtya Fragilaria 26,544
Chrysophyta Cocconeis 56,228
Chrysophyta Terpsinoe 5824

  Results from 3/13/00