Verde River at Riverside Campground (V3)

Description of Site: This site is just below Bartlett Dam and the most representative of water immediately leaving the Verde River reservoirs.
GPS Coordinates: 330 48.59 N   1110 38.88 W

8/28/00
Flow: 125 cfs
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)
1240 5.9 18.1 10.68 113.2 8.1 290 0.06 0.07 0.04 54.2 0.099 0.014 23.8

 
TSS (mg/l) Silica (mg/l) TKN (mg/l) Total P (mg/l) Total Fe (mg/l) Total Mn (mg/l) CDOM (mg/m3) Chl a (mg/m3) Pheophytin a (mg/m3)
ND 19.6 2 0.6 0.12 0.062 0.981 10.196 4.792

Phytoplankton
Division Genus Units/ml
Cyanophyta Merismopedia 18,460
Pyrrophyta Gymnodinium 640
Cyanophyta Merismopedia 160
Cyanophyta Chroococcus 240

Periphyton
Division Genus Units/cm2
Cyanophyta Lyngbya 1,427,610
Cyanophyta Oscillatoria 95,699
Cyanophyta Scytonema 37512
Cyanophyta Holopedium 554
Cyanophyta Anabaena 2059
Chrysophyta Cymbella 104,712
Chrysophyta Fragilaria 214,435
Chrysophyta Gomphonema 187,413
Chrysophyta Navicula 17,604
Chrysophyta Nitzchia 56,802

Aquatic Macro-Invertebrates (Presence/Absence)
Order Family Genus
Trichoptera Hydropsychidae Hydropsyche
Amphipoda Gammaridae Gammarus
Chironomidae Chironominiae Chironomus

 Results from 7/17/00