Thornton Creek Water Quality Monitoring Program

Thornton Creek Enhancement Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining and building salmon stocks in Barkley Sound, as well as facilitating educational and research opportunities. The objective of the Thornton Creek Water Quality Monitoring Program is to create quality, long-term datasets that can be used for research and stewardship by building partnerships with other local organizations and indigenous governments. The rivers that we enhance and/or monitor support critical salmon populations and are susceptible to logging, pollution, mining and human impacts. This makes gathering baseline data on the quality of these watersheds very important. The program periodically collects physio-chemical parameters at 8 sites throughout 7 Rivers that feed into Barkley Sound.

This program is made possible thanks to the support in part from the Department of Fisheries and Ocean and the Pacific Salmon Foundation, as well as the partnership with Toquaht Nation, Ucluelet First Nation and Redd Fish Restoration. This project is funded by donations to the Thornton Creek Enhancement Society.

Citation

Thornton Creek Enhancement Society. 2022-12-21. "Thornton Creek Water Quality Monitoring Program" (dataset). 1.0.0. DataStream. https://doi.org/10.25976/3q6e-m714.

Funding Sources

This project is funded by donations to the Thornton Creek Enhancement Society.

Data Collection Information

Data is collected at 8 sites every 28 days, year-round. A YSI probe 2030 (16E100523) is used to collect water temperature, dissolved oxygen, dissolved oxygen saturation, and conductivity. A thermometer is used to collect air temperatures and a LaMotte wide-range pH kit is used to determine pH. Field observations, such as weather and physical changes are recorded at every site visit.

Data Processing

Protocols have been put into place to ensure data collected is consistent and of high quality. Site descriptions, pictures, field markers and GPS coordinates that have been confirmed using Google Earth are provided for each monitoring site and used for site relocation. To ensure instruments are functioning properly, conductivity and dissolved oxygen calibrations are performed on the YSI probe 2030 (16E100523) 24 hours before every site visit and are kept on record. To help mitigate human errors, field sheets are double checked by sampler for completeness, clarity, and data entry errors immediately after data is recorded. Parameters with unusually high differences are flagged.

Public Domain Dedication and Licence (ODC-PDDL) v1.0

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Data Disclaimer

N/A

API Access

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