Skootamatta District Ratepayers Association

Water quality data are collecting using tools in the Water Rangers Freshwater Explorer testkit, including portable probes and test strips, conductivity meter, secchi disc, and dissolved oxygen tests. Long term trends are tracked and logged on the Water Rangers data platform. Additional microbiological and chemical analysis samples are collected and tested at an external laboratory and data sets are managed internally and published on Skootamatta District Ratepayers Association website.

Citation

Skootamatta District Ratepayers Association. 2023-11-22. "Skootamatta District Ratepayers Association" (dataset). 2.30.0. DataStream. https://doi.org/10.25976/pye4-co41.

Funding Sources

Quinte Conservation Authority, Lake Partner Program through Federation of Ontario Cottagers Association and Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.

Data Collection Information

Samples taken using Water Rangers Freshwater Explorer testkits. A digital probe is used to collect temperature and conductivity data from a triple rinse surface water sample. Clarity and depth is obtained via Secchi disc. Dissolved Oxygen is measured using the Inigo Carmine test from Chemetrics. pH, Alkalinity, Chlorinity, and Hardness obtained from Taylor test strip test. Total Phosphorus and Calcium samples are collected and sent to the Dorset Environmental Science Centre (DESC) where they are analyzed on site. Total Coliform and Ecoli is collected and sent to external laboratory for analysis via Membrane Filtration. Nitrogen, Ammonia+Ammonium (N), Hardness, Iron, Potassium, and Sodium samples are collected on a biannual schedule and sent to external laboratory for analysis via ICPMS.

Data Collection Processing

QA/QC Performed by Water Rangers volunteers.

Attribution Licence (ODC-By) v1.0

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API Access

curl -G https://api.datastream.org/v1/odata/v4/Records --data-urlencode "\\$filter=DOI eq '10.25976/pye4-co41'" -H "x-api-key: PRIVATE-API-KEY"

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