Downstream of Graffiti bridge : Sand Creek

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

Observed by
Madison Gnoose

Observation report

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Water quality tests

✓ Quality checked by Water Rangers What's this?

pH (0-14) What's this? 7.5
E.coli cfu per 100mL What's this? 6,966.67
Average sample of:
  1. 5700
  2. 6400
  3. 8800
Dissolved oxygen mg/L What's this? 9.3
Hardness mg/L What's this? 120.0
Turbidity JTU What's this? 15.0
Alkalinity mg/L What's this? 140.0
Other coliform cfu per 100mL What's this? 12,533.33
Average sample of:
  1. 16800
  2. 10400
  3. 10400
Dissolved oxygen % What's this? 78.8
Total coliform cfu per 100mL What's this? 19,500.0
Average sample of:
  1. 22500
  2. 16800
  3. 19200
Air temperature °C What's this? 2.5
Incubation time (hours) What's this? 41.0
Water temperature °C What's this? 8.5
Incubation temperature °C What's this? 31.0

Microplastics

Film What's this?
Fragments What's this?
Microbeads What's this?
Microfibers What's this?

Weather

Current weather What's this?
sprinkling. completely overcast
Weather in previous 24 hours What's this?
rained the day before and the morning of sampling

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Notes

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.