Oklahoma Water Resources Board the Water Agency
skip nav rules forms FAQs tech reports board meetings OCWP
site map help
home
water quality
 · standards
 monitoring
water supply & availability
water & wastewater financing
technical studies
hazard mitigation
data & maps
news
about us
Oklahoma Comprehensive Water Plan

BUMP Report Lakes

BUMP Report Streams

Oklahoma Water Watch Report

 

Water Quality Monitoring

sampling for bioassessment

SOPs for Streams Field Sampling

2006 BUMP Report

Beneficial Use Monitoring Program

Oklahoma Water Watch



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
The Adobe® Reader is required to view and print these documents. You may obtain a free copy of the reader software from Adobe's® Web Site.

Standard Operating Procedures for Field Sampling of Streams [1MB pdf]

Download by section:
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

Many documents available on this site are in Adobe® Acrobat (.PDF) format and require the free Adobe® Acrobat Reader software to view and print.
Visit www.ok.gov, the Oklahoma State Portal
©1998-2008, Oklahoma Water Resources Board
Page last updated: August 02, 2007

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This site has been redesigned using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). If you are seeing this message you are using an older browser which lacks support for CSS. Please upgrade your browser to the latest version of Internet Explorer, Netscape or other CSS compatible browser to view this page properly.