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Alligator Rivers region regional surface water quality monitoring : November 1978 - April 1981

Details:

Title

Alligator Rivers region regional surface water quality monitoring : November 1978 - April 1981

Other title

Alligator Rivers Region - Regional Surface Water Quality Monitoring, Volumes 1,2,3 (Plus draft)

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Transport and Works. Water Division, Environmental Section

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT; Report ; 49/1983

Date

1983-04-01

Notes

At head of title: Water Division, Dept. of Transport &​ Works, Northern Territory. "April 1983".

Language

English

Subject

Water quality -- Northern Territory -- Alligator Rivers Region; Hydrology -- Northern Territory -- Alligator Rivers Region

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Darwin

Series

Report ; 49/1983

Format

3 volumes. ; 30 cm

File type

application/pdf

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

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

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672725 [Alligator Rivers region regional surface water quality monitoring : November 1978 - April 1981 - WRD83049_v_1.pdf]; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672727 [Alligator Rivers region regional surface water quality monitoring : November 1978 - April 1981 - WRD83049_v_2.pdf]; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672729 [Alligator Rivers region regional surface water quality monitoring : November 1978 - April 1981 - WRD83049_v_3.pdf]

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/229664

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672725

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672729; https://hdl.handle.net/10070/672727

Page content

Technical Report WRD83049 Viewed at 14:07:10 on 29/07/2010 Page 23 of 440. 2 2. Besides the analyses carried out by k~EL, a nQ~er of field laboratory checks are made with remaining sa"ple. These include: a) b) c) pH, turbidity and conductivity measurements to check field results Determination of dissolved oxygen on the 500mL sample. This is carriec out using the Winkler filtration method. The auto-analyser is used to check some k~DEL results eg. SO,, NO,/N0 3 etc. 6.5 Laboratory Analysis Following is a SQ~ary of methocs used for particular analysis by Pu~EL: 6.5.1 General Parameter Analvsis ki\JALYSIS pH Conductivity Turbic1i ty Total Hardness Total Alkalinity ) Carbonate ) Bicarbonate ) Hycroxide ) Calci uin Magnesium Sodium Potassium Chloride Fluoride Sulphate Nitrate Nitrite/Nitrate Arrunonia Total nitrogen Phosphate Silica Dissolved residue Suspenced solids 6.5.2 Heavy metals METHOD Glass electroce Conductivity bridge Nephlometric (Hach) Calculated Titrate to given concitions AAS using Cs as ionisation suppressant Ca/Mg - NzO - acet flame Na/K - air - acet flame more recently by ICP at Pu~DEL Argentometric titration Soecific ion electrode Auto analyser (colorimetric) " " " " " " Specific ion electroce colorimetric (auto analyser) colorimetric (auto analyser) Gravimetric Gravimetric The majority of rretal w.alyses are car::i.ed out by A.AS/g::-a?hit:e :::u...vnace rrethods. The analvsis of residnos follow acid digestion. T:,e F I. F A modification is used by &~DEL. The metal analyses are: ' I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I