Water-quality data collected for Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
Description
We deployed a sampler to characterize water quality from a household well tapping a shallow fractured dolomite aquifer in northeast Wisconsin. The sampler was deployed from January to May 2017, and monitored temperature, nitrate, chloride, specific conductance, and fluorescent dissolved organic matter on a minute time step; water was directed to sequential microbial filters during three recharge periods that ranged from 5 to 20 days. Results from the automated sampler demonstrate the dynamic nature of the household water quality, especially with regard to microbial targets, which were shown to vary 1 to 2 orders of magnitude during a single sampling event. We believe assessments of pathogen occurrence and concentration, and related assessments of drinking well vulnerability, would be improved by the time-integrated characterization provided by this sampler. This data release provides the data collected during this study and use for analyses described by Owens et al., 2018.
Resources
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Link |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VO1KF9 |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5c1d0963e4b0708288c9db39.xml |
Tags
- door-county
- automated-sampling
- microbes
- pathogens
- microbial-sampling
- usgs-5c1d0963e4b0708288c9db39
- wisconsin
- time-series