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Yearly water quality testing is increasingly popular however; less DEQ staff is currently qualified to conduct water quality

sampling efforts resulting in a crunch at the years deadline. In this study, im !illiams, the principle investigator, accumulated and accounted the data to !alt "hapiro, and he analy#ed the data. $he water quality% sampling schedule too& place for a full year to encompass the high flow and 'ase flow for each stream. ( scientist commonly assumes that during a streams high flow its 'an&s are inaccessi'le due to safety concerns thus he collects no samples. In one case, the waterway was not too high to safely access for very months in the studies time. $he scientists sampling on most of the streams 'egan early )ay *++, and continued too late (pril *++-. "ome of the streams that are impacted and will have state and federal cost share programs on it, will have monitoring continued through an additional year. ( scientist collected samples 'i%wee&ly from (pril through "eptem'er, then once a month from .cto'er through )arch, then 'ac& to 'i%wee&ly for the remainder of the sampling period. "cientists should analy#e samples for total suspended solids, total volatile solids, nitrate / nitrite, ammonia, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, fecal coli form and E. coli if you want to cover the ma0or water quality measures. In addition to these analytical

tests, a scientist measured on%site field parameters for dissolved o1ygen, temperature, conductivity total dissolved solids, 23, and discharge, when possi'le, during each sampling incident.

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