Dataset

Mississippi Water Stewards

Dataset by Mississippi State University

Dataset summary

Observations

  • 29 May 2024

    Purple Creek by Will McDearman

    water with white sudsy scum on surface.

  • 29 May 2024

    Fannye Cook Natural Area by Will McDearman

    Water turbid. E. coli counts very high, polluted, but no odor from creek.

  • 29 May 2024

    Fannye Cook Natural Area North by Will McDearman

  • 29 May 2024

    Fannye Cook Natural Area by Will McDearman

    Water with slight white foam and scum, discharging with flow thru culverts under road.

  • 29 May 2024

    First Pentecostal Church North by Will McDearman

  • 29 May 2024

    East Spillway by LeAnn Nealey

    River fairly low, spillway open, lots of egrets, herons, lots of fish surfacing

  • 29 May 2024

    White Oak Creek by Tereza Holman

    Saw small fish darting through the water when we arrived

  • 28 May 2024

    Pearl River at Carroll Loop by Theresa Thornhill

    I don't have a secchi disk. I didn't need one for the other location that I test. Can you send one for the Pearl River location? I put this location on the same schedule as Mill Creek for Chemistry testing--once a month.

  • 28 May 2024

    Mill Creek off Morgantown Rd by Theresa Thornhill

  • 27 May 2024

    Old Trace Park by Jennifer Sigrest

    Despite the hot and humid day, many people were out recreating in and around the park celebrating Memorial Day. Uncertain of the work being done along the water, but water quality didn’t seem impacted.

  • 27 May 2024

    West Spillway Dock by Laura Luke

    There was trash floating off the dock in the river, and there were decomposing fish floating in the water and lying on the land. They looked discarded from previous fishers. There were butterflies feeding off the dead fish. The water smelled like dead fish too. People were out fishing and boating. There was a variety of insects other than the butterflies. There were a few dragonflies and a handful of wasps. One wasp kept trying to explore the trunk of my car for a place to nest, so my testing was interspersed with finding ways to frighten the wasp off without getting stung and a bit of jogging away from the car every time it swooped in my direction. The wasp that gave me the most exercise was some sort of thin waisted paper wasp, and there was also a small green wasp that I didn’t get a good look at before it flew away.

  • 23 May 2024

    Old Highway 13 Bridge by William W Mitchell

  • 22 May 2024

    Hwy 149 by Will McDearman

    Construction on new Hwy 149 bridge continuing. Sample location site still located just upstream of new bridge. Construction still not expected to change concentration of E. coli or other coliforms.

  • 22 May 2024

    Merit Water Park by Will McDearman

    about 6 people in water at falls