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Water Quality at Sawyer Mill Reservoir on Bellamy River, Dover, NH


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Abstract

NOTE: This data was posted to meet the requirements of the EPA Low Cost Nutrient Sensor Challenge (Phase 2). The data set includes the results of a preliminary test of one type of low cost nutrient sensor and should not be used without consultation with the authors.
Dams and their reservoirs are increasingly being removed from the landscape, often because they are aging and would need costly repairs, have no significant utility and/or to improve anadromous fish passage and connectivity with spawning areas. Understanding the role of reservoirs in nitrate removal will inform ongoing decisions regarding dam removal.Because reservoirs created by dams are potentially effective at removing nitrogen (Gold et al. 2016), such dam removals come with tradeoffs, including reduced nitrate removal. Yet we have a poor understanding of the effectiveness of the reservoirs on smaller rivers that are common in much of New England and elsewhere, as well as how their effectiveness varies during different parts of the growing season and during storm events within season.

Our overarching approach used high frequency nitrate sensors to characterize nitrate concentration patterns and fluxes in different kinds of streams and rivers that drain into and out of reservoirs to understand variability in water quality. From these measurement we can also quantify the effectiveness of reservoirs to retain nitrate across a range of flow conditions. In order to help interpret these nitrate results, we also deployed ancillary high frequency sensors that measure specific conductance and water stage/discharge.

This dataset contains quality controlled level (Level 1) data for all of the variables measured for the EPA Nutrient Sensor Action Challenge. Individual file contain specific variables from data Collected in 2018. We implemented a simple workflow to develop usable datasets (Levels 0 and Level 1, Table 2), . Data was processed using custom Matlab code (Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA), and MS Excel. Unprocessed raw data (Level 0), consisting of multiple data streams at native measurement resolution, were compiled on an ongoing basis.

Low-cost high frequency nitrate sensor outputs data every 6 seconds. While, the other high frequency nitrate sensor (SUNA) output 16 frames of data every 15 minutes. Other sensors ( stage height, conductivity, temperature) provided data at 15-minute intervals. Grab sample (nutrients and chloride), and hand-held sensor measurements ( conductance, temperature, and dissolved oxygen) data was collected weekly or biweekly, in addition to periodic flow measurement data. Level 0 data consists raw sensor files, without an processing performed. For the next level of processing, outliers (Level 1), and bad data points were identified and removed based on existing or historic data, stage height was transformed to discharge by applying site-specific rating curve equation, and temporal aggregation performed and each site’s data was compiled into one CSV file.

Each file header contains site location and an explanation of variable names.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Dover, NH
Longitude
-70.8916°
Latitude
43.1790°

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Water Quality at Sawyer Mill Reservoir on Bellamy River

Developed by: Gopal Mulukutla, with input from Wil Wollheim and Eliza Balch, University of New Hampshire

Contact information: gopal.mulukutla@unh.edu Contact information: Wil.Wollheim@unh.edu

Table1 – Describes the monitoring locations on the Oyster River. Station names referred here are used in aggregated level 1 files archived on Hydroshare.

Table1 – Table showing the monitoring locations on the Bellamy River

Station Name Station Description Lat Long Total Area km2 Comment
BELUP Bellamy River at Bellamy Rd. 43.17850 -70.89302 68.4 Major Inflow to Reservoir
BELDN Bellamy River at Sawyer Mill Dam 43.25872 -70.02664 70.6 Outflow from Reservoir

Table 2: Sensors deployed at each site.

Description including name of equipment: Measurement Location
SUNA (Submersible Ultraviolet Nitrate Analyzer) Nitrate BELUP
Realtech GL2000 Series Sensor Nitrate BELDN
Onset Inc. Hobo water level and conductivity logger Stage height, water temperature and specific conductivity. BELUPBELDN

Table3: Time frame of deployment of sensors for each site.

Station Name Station Description Sensors Deployed Time Frame of Deployment Time Frame of Nitrate Sensor Deployment
BELUP Bellamy River at Bellamy Rd. Stage height, conductivity, temperature, and nitrate 2018-05-01 to 2018-11-19 2018-10-14 to 2018-11-12
BELDN Bellamy River at Sawyer Mill Dam Stage height,conductivity, temperature, and nitrate 2018-05-10 to 2018-12-20 2018-09-24 to 2018-11-16

Table 4: Summary of variable names in headers, and their description

Variable Name Description
STAGE.M.HOBO Stage height in meters
TEMP.C.HOBO Temperature in degrees Celsius from continuous sensor
SPCOND.uScm.HOBO Specific Conductance in μS/cm from continuous sensor
NO3.MGL Sensor based NO3-N milligram per liter
Cl.MGL.GRAB Chloride milligram per liter
NO3.MGL.GRAB Grab sample based NO3-N milligram per liter
SO4.MGL.GRAB Grab sample based SO4 milligram per liter
NA.MGL.GRAB Grab sample based Sodium milligram per liter
K.MGL.GRAB Grab sample based Potassium in milligram per liter
MG.MGL.GRAB Grab sample based Magnesium in milligram per liter
CA.MGL.GRAB Grab sample based Calcium in milligram per liter
TEMP.C.HANDHELD Temperature in degrees Celsius from handheld sensor
SPCOND.uScm.HANDHELD Specific Conductance in μS/cm from handheld probe
DO.PERCENT.HANDHELD Dissolved Oxygen Percent Saturation from handheld probe
DO.MGL.HANDHELD Dissolved Oxygen concentration in milligram per liter
STAGE.CM.VISUAL Stage height in cm from visual in-ground stream gage
NO3_MGL_REALTECH Sensor based NO3-N milligram per liter from Realtech sensor
NO3_FLAG_REALTECH Bad data flag for sensor based NO3-N milligram per liter from Realtech sensor
NO3_MGL_MOVAVG_REALTECH Sensor based NO3-N milligram per liter processed data by removing noise
NO3_MGL_SUNA Sensor based NO3-N milligram per liter from SUNA sensor

Credits

Contributors

People or Organizations that contributed technically, materially, financially, or provided general support for the creation of the resource's content but are not considered authors.

Name Organization Address Phone Author Identifiers
Wilfred Wollheim University of New Hampshire
Eliza Balch UNH Water Systems Analysis Group;University of New Hampshire
Margaret Phillips University of New Hampshire

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Mulukutla, G., E. Balch, W. Wollheim (2021). Water Quality at Sawyer Mill Reservoir on Bellamy River, Dover, NH, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/d5f1c174708d4ebf97367499c7ea58a5

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