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Two watershed school districts, Spring Hill and Gardner-Edgerton, actively
participate in stream teams and water monitoring. Spring Hill Middle School (SHMS),
Wheatridge Middle School (WMS) and Pioneer Ridge Middle School (PRMS) eighth
grade students analyze the health of area streams with the help of Hillsdale
Water Quality Project staff. Monitoring activities teach students the importance
of improving water quality, stream conditions, nonpoint source pollution and
current water quality issues. The students are also taught to leave the
monitoring area in a better condition than when they arrived, which can mean
picking up bags of trash. In the classroom, students learn to use stream monitoring kits. Once in the streams, students test of various pollutants from point and nonpoint sources. Tests include: turbidity, phosphorous, nitrate, dissolved oxygen, pH levels, total dissolved solids, air temperature and water temperature. Students also perform kick net tests to collect macroinvertebrates (small aquatic organisms) to determine water quality and stream health, as well as a visual stream survey. |
Spring Hill Middle School After school becomes a learning experience for students from SHMS. The eight, eighth grade students participate in stream monitoring approximately 10 times throughout the school year. The SHMS stream team test sites include: Spring Hill City Lake, Little Bull Creek and Hillsdale Lake.
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Gardner-Edgerton School District Project staff assists approximately 420 WMS and PRMS students annually in a six-day monitoring event during World Water Monitoring Day, a month long program beginning September 18. Sites for this event include: Edgerton City Lake, Edgerton Creek, Gardner Cemetery and the Kansas City Power & Light Prairie Wetlands. |
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Stream monitoring activities are funded by a Johnson County Stormwater
Management Advisory Council Education and Outreach grant funded through a Johnson County Stormwater tax. |
Stream Monitoring Results:
Spring Hill Middle School 2010 Sampling
Pioneer Ridge Middle School 2010 Sampling
Spring Hill Middle School 2009 Sampling
Wheatridge Middle School 2009 Sampling
Johnson County Stormwater Management Program
World Water Monitoring Day
Missouri Stream Team
Spring Hill Middle School
Wheatridge Middle School
Pioneer Ridge Middle School
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Hillsdale Lake featuring daily reports
View real-time data at two stream gauging stations within the watershed:
Big Bull Creek near Edgerton, KS
Little Bull Creek near Spring Hill, KS
Sampling Data
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2002 Loading Report and
2003 Sampling Plan
2003 Stream Monitoring Data
Historic Stream and Lake Data
KCP&L Prairie Wetland Data
Precipitation Data
An Estimation of the Annual Loading of Total Phosphorus and Sediment into Hillsdale Lake, 2001 (525kb .pdf)
Annual Loading Report
Previously, when funding was available, Hillsdale Water Quality Project completed an annual loading report for the Hillsdale Lake Watershed. It provides an overview of the watershed's condition, progress towards in lake nutrient loading goals and designation of the project's priority subwatershed.
The Last fully funded report was in 2002 - View the 2002 Loading Report.
Sampling Plan
The Project prepares a sampling plan to determine the number and frequency of samples taken from streams within the Hillsdale Lake Watershed during the following year. The last funded sampling occurred in 2003. The Sampling Plan for 2003 is below.
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View the 2003 Sampling Plan.
2003 Stream Monitoring Data
| Date | Type | Description | TSS (mg/L) | TKN (mg/L) | NO3 (mg/L) | Total Phos (mg/L) | Soluble Phos (mg/L) | Atrazine (ug/L) | Notes |
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| 03/27/2003 | Grab | Rock Creek | 6 | 0.5 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 0.08 |
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Nitrate + Nitrite = <0.05 |
| 04/14/2003 | Grab | Big Bull Creek at I-35 | 25 | 1.4 | 0.05 | 0.66 | 0.44 | 0.6 | Nitrate + Nitrite = <0.05 |
| 04/14/2003 | Grab | Little Bull Creek at 207th | 49 | 1.3 | 2.72 | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.4 |
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| 04/21/2003 | Comp | Little Bull Creek at 207th | 590 | 3.4 | 1.89 | 1.17 | 0.4 | 8.7 |
Sampling Occurred 4/19-20, Max Flow Rate = 373 cfs |
| 04/21/2003 | Comp | Big Bull Creek at I-35 | 2450 | 6.7 | 2.62 | 1.44 | 0.1 | 20.5 |
Sampling Occurred 4/19-20, Max Flow Rate = 152 cfs |
| 05/05/2003 | Grab | Little Bull Creek at 207th | 80 | 1.1 | 1.79 | 0.23 | 0.07 |
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| 05/05/2003 | Grab | Big Bull Creek at I-35 | 53 | 1.6 | 1.87 | 0.71 | 0.47 |
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| 05/06/2003 | First - Flush | J1 West |
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Nitrite = .03, Fecal = 90 |
| 05/08/2003 | Grab | Rock Creek | 26 | 0.8 | 0.84 | 0.1 | 0.05 | 4.3 |
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| 05/08/2003 | Grab | Little Bull Creek at 207th |
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| 05/08/2003 | Grab | Wade Creek at Crescent Hill Road | 45 | 1.1 | 1.15 | 0.27 | 0.11 | 3.5 |
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| 05/15/2003 | Grab | Wade Creek at Crescent Hill Road |
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| 05/15/2003 | Grab | Big Bull Creek at I-35 |
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| 05/22/2003 | Grab | Big Bull Creek at I-35 |
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| 05/22/2003 | Grab | Rock Creek |
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| 05/22/2003 | Grab | Wade Creek at Crescent Hill Road |
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Average
Total Suspended Solids |
Average
Total Phosphorus |
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Average
Dissolved Phosphorus |
Average
Atrazine |
Hillsdale Lake Monitoring
(Lake nutrient data provided by U.S. Army Corp of
Engineers)
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Total Suspended Solids |
Average
Total Phosphorus |
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Average
Dissolved Phosphorus |
Average
Atrazine |
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KCPL Wetland Data
Upstream water samples are taken from the
effluent discharge of the Gardner Big Bull Sewage Treatment Plant above the
wetland.
Downstream samples are taken below the KCPL Prairie Wetland at Waverly Road.
Hillsdale Lake Watershed Precipitation Data
Historic Precipitation at Monitoring Sites
Big Bull Creek
at I-35
Little Bull Creek at 207th
2003 Precipitation at Hillsdale Water Quality Project Office
One Year Total = 27.00"
