Beaverdams Road Parkette

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Weather observations

• Current weather description

  Community scientist interpretation

  cool and cloudy

• Weather in the past 24hrs description

  Community scientist interpretation

  periodically rainy 24 hours before

• Current weather

  Community scientist interpretation

  • Cloudy

• Weather in the past 24hrs

  Community scientist interpretation

  • Rainy

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Qualitative readings

• Clarity

  Community scientist interpretation

  Cloudy

• Water use

  Community scientist interpretation

  Fishing, Public water supply

• Colour

  Community scientist interpretation

  Brown

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Plants/wildlife

• Algae

  Community scientist interpretation

  Floating mats

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Issue reporting

• Water surface

  Community scientist interpretation

  Litter

• Pollution sources

  Community scientist interpretation

  Industrial discharge, Residential discharge, Urban/road discharge

• Odour

  Community scientist interpretation

  Other

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Physical tests

• Water flow

  Community scientist interpretation

  Still

• Water level

  Community scientist interpretation

  Average

• Secchi depth (clarity)

  Secchi disk (20 cm diameter)

  0.14 m

• Water depth

  Secchi disk (20 cm diameter)

  0.14 m

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Chemistry tests

• Water temperature

  Water Rangers pen-type meter (temperature)

  10 °C

• Conductivity

  Water Rangers pen-type meter (conductivity)

  498 μS/cm

• Oxygen

  Chemetrics ampoules (dissolved oxygen)

  ≥ 12.0 mg/L

  Regulatory

• Air temperature

  Water Rangers (stream thermometer) and/or weather app

  16 °C

• pH

  Taylor teststrips (pH)

  7.5

  Regulatory

• Alkalinity

  Taylor teststrips (alkalinity)

  100 ppm

• Hardness

  Taylor teststrips (hardness)

  100 ppm

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Biological tests

• Incubation temperature

  Digital thermometer

  35 °C

• Incubation time

  Digital timer

  24 hours

• E. coli

  Roth R-Card 1mL (E. coli)

  ≤ 0.0 CFU/100 mL

  highest of 3 samples Regulatory