Sand Creek

used R-cards

There is only one data field for bacteria, so I entered the average.

Water level low and high clay accumulation on bank (more than usual)

Runoff from fields entered the creek exactly at our sampling point, so I waded to the center to get the channel and not just runoff.

Lots of orange, white, and yellow colonies as well. Consistently see those

Forgot to take site pictures; chemistry only

Rain 48 hours before, creek back to base flow.

Heavy rain 2 days ago. Smells fishy. Dead clams and shrimp. A few live minnows.

I forgot to take pictures of the plates...my bad. Did not test for hardness because the hardness reagent 5 was on backorder.

I tested this site at the request of Beth Baker to see how quickly the spike in E. coli from 2021-05-03 would go down to normal after a heavy rain.