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Water Quality Monitoring
Other OWRB Monitoring Activities
- Providing necessary data for developing, refining, or modifying numerical criteria listed in Oklahoma’s Water Quality Standards
- Providing background data for Total Maximum Daily Loading (TMDL) studies, including both stream gauge and water quality data, much of which is related to confirming 303(d) listings and determining allocations
- Stream gauging for numerous grants and contracts and providing discharge measurements on BUMP stations not currently gauged by the United States Geological Survey
- Sampling approximately 850 wells to track movement of pollutants from Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) to support regulation by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
- Monitoring stream water for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) permitting process for hydroelectric power generation activities
- Providing data concerning groundwater and surface water interaction for the Arbuckle-Simpson Hydrology Study
- Providing data for measuring the magnitude and source of chloride/sulfate input waters in the Red River basin
Standard Operating Procedures for Field Sampling
of Streams
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Collecting Water Quality Samples
Measuring Hardness and Alkalinity
Measuring Turbidity
Recording Phyiscal/Chemical Parameters using a Multiparameter Instrument
Measurement of Stream Discharge
Using Floats to Determine Stream Discharge
Installing Nonrecording Gages and Measurement of Stage
Surveying Gaging Stations
Collecting Benthic and Sestonic Chlorophyll-a Samples
Collecting Fish
Collecting Macroinvertibrates
Collecting Habitat Data
Collecting Fish in Nonwadeable Prairie Rivers
Collecting Fish for Toxics Analysis
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