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2002 Loading Report and 2003 Sampling Plan

2003 Stream Monitoring Data

Historic Stream and Lake Data

KCPL Prairie Wetland Data

Precipitation Data

Annual Loading Report

Annually, the Hillsdale Water Quality Project completes a 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. 

    - 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. 

    - 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
03/27/2003 Grab Rock Creek 6 0.5 0.05 0.1 0.08
 
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
 
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
 

 
05/05/2003 Grab Big Bull Creek at I-35 53 1.6 1.87 0.71 0.47
 

 
05/06/2003 First - Flush J1 West
 

 
1.12
 
0.11
 
Nitrite = .03, Fecal = 90
05/08/2003 Grab Rock Creek 26 0.8 0.84 0.1 0.05 4.3
 
05/08/2003 Grab Little Bull Creek at 207th
 

 

 

 

 
2.2
 
05/08/2003 Grab Wade Creek at Crescent Hill Road 45 1.1 1.15 0.27 0.11 3.5
 
05/15/2003 Grab Wade Creek at Crescent Hill Road
 

 

 

 

 
10.2
 
05/15/2003 Grab Big Bull Creek at I-35
 

 

 

 

 
10.1
 
05/22/2003 Grab Big Bull Creek at I-35
 

 

 

 

 
10.8
 
05/22/2003 Grab Rock Creek
 

 

 

 

 
4.8
 
05/22/2003 Grab Wade Creek at Crescent Hill Road
 

 

 

 

 
4.1
 

Historic Stream Data

Average Total Suspended Solids
 
Average Total Phosphorus
 
Average Dissolved Phosphorus
 
Average Atrazine
 

 


Hillsdale Lake Monitoring
(Lake nutrient data provided by U.S. Army Corp of Engineers)

Average Total Suspended Solids
 
Average Total Phosphorus
 
Average Dissolved Phosphorus
 
Average Atrazine
 
Average Chlorophyll
 

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"


 

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