Table 2.  Monitoring program in the Wichita River Basin, Texas, 1996–97

W - Weekly
M - Monthly
Q - Quarterly
Y - Yearly
9/YR - Nine times per year

Standard - streamflow, specific conductance, pH, temperature, and dissolved oxygen

Productivity - a dissolved oxygen reading taken in the morning hours, as well as evening hours, to record diurnal swings in dissolved oxygen

Bacteriological - fecal coliform and Escherichia coli

Inorganic constituents - calcium, magnesium, sodium, alkalinity, sulfate, chloride, and dissolved solids

Rapid bio-assessment - a synoptic survey of benthic macroinvertebrates and fish to assess biological impairment of a water body

Refer-
ence
number
(fig. 3)

Station description

Station ID

Stand-
ard

Produc-
tivity

Bacterio-
logical

Inorganic
constit-
uents

Rapid
bio-
assess-
ment

TNRCC

USGS

 1

Holliday Creek at Harding Street

10095

 

W

 

9/YR

Q

 

2

Holliday Creek at Sisk Road (Farm Road 2650)

15122

 

W

 

9/YR

Q

 

3

Buffalo Creek at Farm Road 1814

10097

 

W

 

9/YR

Q

Y

4

Beaver Creek at U.S. Highway 283

15121

 

W

 

9/YR

Q

 

5

Wichita River at State Highway 25

10155

 

 

9/YR

9/YR

Q

Y

6

Wichita River at River Road

10149

 

 

9/YR

9/YR

Q

 

7

North Wichita River at Farm Road 267

15177

 

 

 

 

 

Y

8

South Wichita River at Waggoner Ranch Road

15178

 

 

 

 

 

Y

9

Beaver Creek near Electra

15120

07312200

 

 

9/YR

Q

Y

10

Wichita River at Wichita Falls (Loop 11)

10151

07312500

 

 

9/YR

Q

 

11

Wichita River at Charlie

10145

07312700

 

9/YR

9/YR

Q

 

12

Wichita River near Mabelle at U.S. Highway 183/283

10158

07312100

 

 

 

M

 

13

Middle Fork Wichita River near Guthrie

14900

07311630

 

 

 

M

 

14

North Wichita River near Paducah

15119

07311600

 

 

 

M

 

15

South Wichita River at State Highway 283 North of Benjamin

10185

07311800

 

 

 

M

 

     16

South Wichita River at Low Flow Dam near Guthrie

13636

07311782

 

 

 

M

 

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