Water Quality Ritter Park-April 2012

As discussed previously, we had a wonderful outing on April 21, 2012 at Ritter Park where we identified and measured trees and sampled the water quality in Four Pole Creek. Below you will find the data we collected:

Water Quality
Test	Sample	Q-Value (from charts)	Weight	Total Q-Value
DO (actual)	5.4
Saturated DO reading from chart	10.1
DO (% of saturation)	53.46534653	45	0.32	14.4
Temperature (Celcius)	14.3	30	0.19	5.7
TDS (actual)	142.7	78	0.13	10.14
Turbidity (actual)	22.1	61	0.15	9.15
pH (acutal)	7.4	95	0.21	19.95
			Overall Quality	59.34

The overall quality was 59.34 on 4/21/12. This would be a a medium or average reading on the water quality scale. Water supplies achieving only an average rating generally have less diversity of aquatic organisms and frequently have increased algae growth. For water quality testing procedures you can click here.