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End of Wet Season Stream Flow Measurements, Roper River, May 2014

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Title

End of Wet Season Stream Flow Measurements, Roper River, May 2014

Creator

Kerle, Errol; Waugh, Peter; Northern Territory. Department of Land Resource Management

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Aug-14

Date

2014-06-01

Location

Roper River

Description

Early dry season snapshot measurements were taken on the Roper River to establish water quality and quantity conditions at commencement of baseflow conditions. The snapshot measurements are used to: 1. Refine and calibrate the hydrological model used to assess resource availability and allocations. 2. Better define aquifer recharge/discharge zones along the river, and 3. Provide a dataset of comparable flow and water quality measurements at identical periods in the annual water cycle.

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT)

Table of contents

Summary -- Aim -- Introduction -- Observations -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References

Language

English

Subject

End of Wet Season Stream Flow Measurement

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Palmerston

Series

Aug-14

Format

24 pages : illustrations, colour maps ; 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

1743500637; 9781743500637

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/260106

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/492338

Page content

3 Table of Contents SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4 AIM .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 OBSERVATIONS............................................................................................................................................................. 5 MONITORING SITES ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 WATER LEVELS .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 STREAM FLOWS .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 WATER QUALITY ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 RAINFALL ....................................................................................................................................................................... 8 DISCUSSION .................................................................................................................................................................... 9 RAINFALL ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9 STREAM FLOWS ............................................................................................................................................................ 10 WATER QUALITY .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Electrical Conductivity (EC) ................................................................................................................................... 11 pH ............................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Dissolved Oxygen (DO) .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Turbidity .................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Temperature ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 Total and soluble nutrients ...................................................................................................................................... 14 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................................................... 16 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................................... 17 APPENDIX A - MONITORING REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................. 18 OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................................................. 18 FIELD MEASUREMENT STANDARDS .............................................................................................................................. 18 Water Levels ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 Stream Flow ............................................................................................................................................................ 19 Water Quality .......................................................................................................................................................... 20 APPENDIX B WATER LEVELS .............................................................................................................................. 21 APPENDIX C FLOW MEASUREMENTS ............................................................................................................... 22 APPENDIX D WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENTS (PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PARAMETERS) .............. 23 APPENDIX E WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENTS (NUTRIENTS) .............................................................. 24