1. Annual Membership Meeting Water Quality Report 2010
Kings River Watershed Partnership
March 23, 2010

2. Water Quality Monitoring Overview
Ten chemical and physical tests performed each month at eight sites throughout the watershed
Once a quarter duplicate are tests performed at the Water Quality Lab of the Arkansas Water Resources Center
Levels of the nutrients Nitrate and Ortho Phosphate are tested once a quarter at AWRC.

3. Water Quality Monitoring - Overview
Our monitoring program is all volunteer, we rely on dedicated and well trained volunteers to collect samples each month.
We are trying to establish a baseline of water quality information in our watershed so that we can identify trends and changes in the future.

4. Water Quality Monitoring Overview
Chemical tests preformed:
Dissolved Oxygen
Total Dissolved Solids
Conductivity
Nitrates
Hardness
Alkalinity
Ortho Phosphates
Physical tests performed:
Stream Depth
Water temperature
Air temperature pH
Turbidity

5. Water Quality Monitoring Overview
Equipment Used
HACH kit and Colorimeter for Hardness, Alkalinity, and Turbidity
YSI Probe tests pH, TDS, Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity and temperature

6. Monitoring Sites: Kings River at HWY 74 Rockhouse access Keels Creek
Upper Osage at CR 705
Lower Osage at CR 306
Kings at the old 306 bridge site
Mill Branch Creek
Stoney Point

7. Water Quality Data - TDS
Total Dissolved Solids – Tiny particles which are suspended in surface water. Particles such as calcium, phosphates, nitrates, sodium, potassium and chloride.
Can reduce water clarity and plant life and lead to an increase in water temperature.
There are many sources of TDS such as agriculture and parking lot run-off and waste water treatment.
Particles can be minerals and nutrients. Measured using electrical conductivity. Can come from surface run-off or water treatment

8. Water Quality Data - TDS
This is TDS from our most upriver site and our most downriver site, so this encompasses urban and rural land and Osage Creek.

9. Water Quality Data – Dissolved Oxygen
Dissolved Oxygen is naturally occurring and essential to aquatic plants and animals.
The build up of organic wastes such as sewage, animal wastes and urban and agricultural run-off decreases dissolved oxygen levels.

10. Water Quality Data – Dissolved Oxygen

11. Water Quality Data - Phosphates
Phosphorus is an naturally occurring and essential nutrient for plant and animal growth.
Excessive levels of phosphorus in a waterway can lead to extreme algae growth which chokes animals and other plants
Excesses phosphorus can come from sources such as wastewater discharge, animal wastes, fertilizer run-off, and soil erosion.

13. Water Quality Data - Nitrates
Nitrates are another naturally occurring essential element for plants and animals to build protein. Nitrates are formed when bacteria help to decompose organic matter.
Excess nitrates come from wastewater treatment, septic systems, farm and lawn run-off, storm water run-off and animal waste.

14. Water Quality Data - Nitrates

15. Grandview Monitoring - AWQC
In July 2009 KRWP received a grant under the ARNC 319 program for a monitoring program on the Kings River at the USGS station at Grandview (Hwy 143 bridge).
Arkansas Water Quality Center at the University of Arkansas was hired to collect weekly grab samples to analyzed for water quality and constituent loads.

16. Questions?