Upper Columbia Basin Network integrated water quality annual report 2009: Big Hole National Battlefield (BIHO)
Starkey EN. 2010. Upper Columbia Basin Network integrated water quality annual report 2009: Big Hole National Battlefield (BIHO). Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/UCBN/NRTR—2010/291. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
This annual report details the status of key indicators of water quality obtained from the first season of monitoring in Big Hole National Battlefield (BIHO), 2009. Note that several of the appendices in this report are primarily intended for UCBN internal reference. In addition, some appendices serve has hard copies of quality assurance/quality control procedures performed during data processing. Data from the 2009 field sampling effort was collected following methods detailed in the UCBN integrated water quality monitoring protocol (Starkey et al. 2009). The UCBN Integrated Water Quality Monitoring Protocol was formally peer-reviewed and approved for implementation in August 2009. This protocol can be found on the UCBN website at: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/ucbn/reports/index.cfm#IWQ_Mon Water chemistry and macroinvertebrate results indicate that the North Fork Big Hole River is in good condition, with the primary concerns being dissolved oxygen content below the established TMDL and elevated water temperatures. The status of water quality for the North Fork Big Hole River relative to state regulatory thresholds is given in the summary table on the following page. UCBN water quality monitoring is conducted on a 3 year rotating panel. As a result, conditions in the North Fork Big Hole River will be re-evaluated in 2012.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Starkey, E.
- Date of Issue
- 2010-02-22
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- BIHO , NRSS , UCBN
- Keywords
- Big Hole National Battlefield, BIHO, Macroinvertebrates, UCBN Water Quality Monitoring, Water Chemistry, Water Quality