NCRN Water Monitoring

Brolis A and Ashley L. NCRN Water Monitoring. 2005. National Park Service

In 2005, the National Capital Region Inventory and Monitoring Network (NCRN) initiated a long-term water quality and quantity monitoring program, funded in part by the National Park Service Water Resources Division. Water monitoring is carried out year round at 37 sites within 10 of the NCRN parks. Parks monitored with this protocol include Antietam National Battlefield, Catoctin Mountain Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Monocacy National Battlefield, National Capital Parks - East, Prince William Forest Park, Rock Creek Park, and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. The streams monitored are all part of the Potomac River Watershed. The Potomac is the second largest drainage of the nine river basins that form the 64,000 square mile Chesapeake Bay watershed. This protocol includes monitoring of water chemistry, nutrient dynamics, and surface water dynamics. Water chemistry parameters measured include temperature, pH, specific conductance, salinity, acid neutralizing capacity, and dissolved oxygen. Nutrient dynamics parameters measured include total nitrate (NO3), and total phosphorous (PO4). Surface water dynamics parameters measured include flow, discharge, water depth, and wetted width.

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Project
Authors
Brolis, Andrejs; Ashley, Lindsay
Publisher
National Park Service
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ANTI , CATO , GWMP , HAFE , MANA , MONO , NACE , NCRN , PRWI , ROCR , WOTR
Keywords
acid neutralizing capacity, ANC, dissolved oxygen, NCRN, ph, specific conductance, stream health, Streams, temperature, total nitrate, total phosphorus, Water, Water quality, water quantity

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