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Nitrogen and phosphorus data for surface water in the Upper Colorado River basin, Colorado, 1980-94

Open-File Report 97-233
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr97233

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Abstract

This report documents, summarizes, and provides on 3.5-in. diskette the surface-water data collected from January 1980 through August 1994 for nitrogen and phosphorus in the Upper Colorado River Basin from the Colorado-Utah State line to the Continental Divide. Ancillary data for parameters, such as water temperature, streamflow, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, pH, and alkalinity, also are compiled, if available. Data were retrieved from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STORET (STOrage and RETrieval) system. The water-quality data are presented for sites having five or more nutrient analyses that reflect ambient stream conditions. The compiled data base contains 4,927 samples from 123 sites. The median sample period of record for individual sites is 2.5 years, and the seventy-fifth percentile is about 12 years. Sixteen sites have only five samples each. The median number of samples per site is 14 samples, whereas the seventy-fifth percentile is 65 samples. The compiled data set was used in the design of a basinwide sampling network that incorporates sites that lack historic surface-water-quality data.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Nitrogen and phosphorus data for surface water in the Upper Colorado River basin, Colorado, 1980-94
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 97-233
DOI 10.3133/ofr97233
Edition -
Year Published 1997
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey ;Information Services [distributor],
Description v, 14 p. :ill., map ;28 cm. +1 computer disk (3 1/2 in.)
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