Investigating Water Quality How do excess nutrients affect dissolved oxygen levels & impact water quality?

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Investigating Water Quality How do excess nutrients affect dissolved oxygen levels & impact water quality?

Dissolved oxygen is molecular oxygen freely available in water and necessary for the respiration of aquatic life and the oxidation of organic material. Water Quality: Dissolved Oxygen Below is what water looks like when the oxygen level is too low for the number of plants and animals using the aquatic habitat.

Water Quality: Nutrients and Nutrient loading Nutrients are elements or compounds essential to life, including but not limited to oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Nutrient loading is the addition of nutrients, usually nitrogen or phosphorus, to a water body (often expressed as g/m2 of lake surface area per year). The majority of nutrient loading in a lake usually comes from its tributaries.

Nutrients are supposed to be good but too much of anything is a problem especially when aquatic plants & microorganisms take over. Sources include agricultural runoff with nitrogen rich fertilizers, waste water treatment plants, septic systems, and detergents using phosphates.

Phosphorus cycles through the environment, changing form as it does so (Fig. 5.12). Aquatic plants take in dissolved inorganic phosphorus and convert it to organic phosphorus as it becomes part of their tissues. Animals get the organic phosphorus they need by eating either aquatic plants, other animals, or decomposing plant and animal material. As plants and animals excrete wastes or die, the organic phosphorus they contain sinks to the bottom, where bacterial decomposition converts it back to inorganic phosphorus Fig 5.12 EPA

Environmental Protection Agency Water becomes stratified The bottom layer becomes toxic Aquatic organisms compete for DO in warmer & vulnerable surface waters.

What is the relationship between water temperature and dissolved oxygen?

WA Department of Ecology Water Quality Testing Data Phosphorus, Nitrogen & Dissolved Oxygen Columbia Grand Coulee Hawk Creek Kettle River near Barstow North Port

61A070 - Columbia Northport Overall water quality at this station is of moderate concern. (based on water-year 2008 summary) LOCATED AT THE BRIDGE CROSSING THE COLUMBIA RIVER ON STATE HIGHWAY 25, IMMEDIATELY NORTHEAST OF NORTHPORT

60A070 - Kettle R nr Barstow Overall water quality at this station is of moderate concern. (based on water-year 2008 summary) LOCATED 10.9 MILES FROM THE MOUTH OF THE KETTLE RIVER,.75 MILES EAST OF BARSTOW ON THE FERRY-STEVENS COUNTY LINE Barstow

53A070 - Columbia Grand Coulee Overall water quality at this station met or exceeded expectations and is of lowest concern. (based on water-year 2009 summary) LOCATED AT THE COULEE DAM BRIDGE.5 MILES BELOW GRAND COULEE DAM Data years

53C070 - Hawk Miles-Creston Rd. Overall water quality at this station did not meet expectations and is of highest concern. (based on water-year 2009 summary) Hawk Creek Location: From Grand Coulee: Head southwest on Hwy 174 towards Wilbur. Turn left onto Hwy 2 heading towards Wilbur/Creston. After traveling past Creston ~6 miles, turn left onto Miles-Creston Rd. Follow until the road crosses Hawk Creek. Park on the near side of the bridge on the left hand side of the road.

Hawk Creek WQ Data What does the data show about the relationship between temperature and oxygen?

Hawk Creek WQ Data

Compare the graphs for Oxygen and total nitrogen & phosphorus Explain the data trends for columns 6-8 Feb - April

Hawk Creek WQ Data For which months is Total Phosphorus highest? Total Nitrogen highest? Oxygen Lowest? What is happening in June that explains the data trends? date OXYGENTP_PTPN (mg/L) 10/6/ /3/ /1/ /5/ /2/ /2/ /6/ /4/ /1/ /6/ /3/ /14/

Do the data show patterns or local circumstances? Analyze the WQ data for –Grand Coulee –Kettle River and –North Port Compare the three locations to Hawk Creek? Find any similarities & differences.