Water Quality Variations and Trends in Monument and Fountain Creeks

• Description: ARCA
• State: CO
• State: KS
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1993
• Author: Barbara C. Ruddy, U.S. Geologic Survey, Colorado Springs Department of Utilities
• Title: Water Quality Variations and Trends in Monument and Fountain Creeks
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Table 11. -- Summary statistics for streamflow and selected water - quality properties and constituents at
water - quality station 07105905 Fountain Creek above Little Fountain Creek below Fountain
[ft /s, cubic feet per second; NS /cm, microsiemens per centimeter at 25 degrees Celsius; °C, degree Celsius; mg /L, milligrams per liter;
Ng /L, micrograms per liter; /100 mL, colonies per 100 milliliters; - - -, no stream standard; E, estimated using methods described by
Helsel and Cohn (1988); <, less than]
Standard Lower Upper
deviation Minimum quartile Median quartile Maximum
257
9.1
35
Number
Period
3,000
309
353
Number
of
of
Mean
Property or constituent
Units
of
censored
record
8.2
7.7
0.0
values
values
(water year)
30.0
Instantaneous streamflow
ft /s
142
0
1976 -88
106
Specific conductance
NS /cm
141
0
1976 -88
1,110
PH
standard
135
0
1976 -88
7.7
Water temperature
° C
140
0
1976 -88
13.6
Dissolved oxygen
mg /L
135
0
1976 -88
8.2
Hardness as calcium
mg /L
17
0
1976 -84
390
carbonate
Dissolved calcium
mg /L
17
0
1976 -84
100
Dissolved magnesium
mg /L
17
0
1976 -84
34
60
Dissolved chloride
mg /L
32
0
1977 -85
10
Dissolved sulfate
mg /L
32
0
1977 -85
370
Suspended solids
mg /L
130
0
1977 -88
216
Nitrite plus nitrate as
mg /L
139
0
1976 -88
3.6
nitrogen
N Total ammonia as nitrogen
mg /L
138
3
1976 -88
2.5 E
`P Un- ionized ammonia as
mg /L
130
0
1976 -88
0.029
nitrogen
Total ammonia plus organic
mg /L
99
0
1976 -88
4.8
nitrogen
Total organic nitrogen as
mg /L
96
1
1976 -88
2.5 E
nitrogen
Total phosphorus
mg /L
59
0
1976 -82
2.6
Total cadmium
Ng /L
40
24
1976 -88
0.90 E
Total recoverable copper
pg /L
43
0
1976 -88
21
Dissolved iron
pg /L
17
48
4
0
1976 -88
1976 -88
30
6,600
Total recoverable iron
lead
Ng /L
/L
40
7
1976 -88
15 E
Total recoverable
Ng
/L
17
0
1976 -85
240
Dissolved manganese
Ng
/L
39
0
1976 -83
430
Total recoverable manganese
pg
/L
32
0
1981 -88
16
Total recoverable nickel
pg
Ng /L
32
0
1976 -88
6
Total selenium
Total recoverable zinc
pg /L
48
0
1976 -88
90
5 -day biochemical oxygen
mg /L
128
0
1976 -88
17
demand
Total coliform bacteria
/100 mL
18
0
1984 -85
10,000
Fecal coliform bacteria
/100 mL
97
2
1976 -88
1,100 E
Fecal streptococcus bacteria /100 mL
51
0
1984 -88
980
1 For stream segment 2
(Colorado
Department of Health, 1989).
Standard Lower Upper
deviation Minimum quartile Median quartile Maximum
257
9.1
35
61
101
3,000
309
353
950
1,100
1,290
2,120
0.3
6.6
7.5
7.8
7.9
8.2
7.7
0.0
8.0
13.0
19.4
30.0
1.6
4.9
6.8
8.1
9.5
13.2
130
210
290
390
430
710
38
27
75
100
110
190
10
19
28
35
40
58
13
26
53
61
69
87
96
190
310
345
420
590
399
1
54
105
210
3,960
1.0
0.26
3.1
3.7
4.2
7.7
2.5 E
<0.01
0.36
1.5
3.9
10
0.32
0.00019
0.0050
0.017
0.047
0.15
4.0
0.50
1.8
3.9
6.3
20
3.1 E
<0.01
1.0
1.5
2.5
20
1.6
0.04
1.4
2.3
3.3
9.3
0.82 E
<1
0.53
E 0.82 E
1.27
3
30
4
9
13
20
150
39
<3
9
20
30
170
14,000
210
1,300
3,000
6,600
97,000
32 E
<1
3
6
16
200
110
24
170
270
320
350
420
120
280
350
430
2,800
9
6
10
14
21
47
2
3
5
6
7
13
120
20
32
60
90
650
12
1
7.8
16
25
62
18,000
420
1,300
3,900
14,000
80,000
2,400 E
<10
80
320
1,100
17,000
1,900
50
120
340
840
10,000
11b
W 1
Water -
quality
stand-
ard'
6.5 -9.0
5.0
250
600
10
10
200
300
50
150
200
10
2,000
2,000-