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WRIR 02-4030:
Streamflow and Water-Quality Data for
Selected Watersheds in the Lake Tahoe Basin,
California and Nevada, through September 1998

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Table 19. Nutrient and suspended-sediment monthly load and runoff summary statistics (sum, median, minimum, and maximum), percent change in sums between stations, and monthly median units/yields between stations for period of comparison (water years 1991-98) for three LTIMP sampling stations in the Incline Creek watershed, in the Incline Village area, Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada

[Abbreviations: acre-ft, acre-feet; acre-ft/ mi2, acre-feet per square mile; kg, kilogram; kg/km2, kilogram per square kilometer; kg/mo, kilogram per month. Symbol: --, not applicable]

 

Average
annual
runoff
(acre-ft)

Dissolved nitrite
+ nitrate (NO2 + NO3) nitrogen (kg/mo)

Dissolved
ammonia
(NH4) nitrogen
(kg/mo)

Total
nitrogen
(kg/mo)

Soluble
reactive phosphorus
(kg/mo)

Total
phosphorus
(kg/mo)

Biologically reactive iron
(kg/mo)

Suspended sediment
(kg/mo)

Incline Creek near Crystal Bay

Sum

--

1,960 206 23,900 1,040 6,500 99,400 4,370,000

Median

6,220 (average)

10.8 1.46 117 7.12 30.9 558 20,200

Maximum

--

86.4 10.5 1,950 69.4 610 6,410 401,000

Minimum

--

1.30 .28 16.2 1.03 3.96 76.1 2,200

Percent change in sum

24

39 23 52 34 43 44 41

Yield (kg/km2)

--

.62 .08 6.76 .41 1.79 32.2 2,710

Unit runoff (acre-ft/mi2)

930

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Incline Creek at Highway 28

Sum

--

1,200 159 11,600 689 3,680 55,500 2,590,000

Median

4,730 (average)

6.19 1.05 58.2 4.13 19.8 321 15,400

Maximum

--

55.0 8.17 833 41.2 278 3,210 142,000

Minimum

--

.91 .19 6.89 .54 2.29 44.1 2,730

Percent change in sum

22

21 49 17 31 32 39 36

Yield (kg/km2)

--

.52 .09 4.93 .35 1.68 27.2 1,310

Unit runoff (acre-ft/mi2)

1,040

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Incline Creek above Tyrol Village

Sum

--

776 57.5 7,470 364 1,620 16,300 1,003,000

Median

3,370 (average)

4.53 .31 38.0 2.25 7.66 56.0 1,900

Maximum

--

48.3 3.34 630 23.2 152 1,840 168,000

Minimum

--

.17 .08 2.51 .26 .92 4.56 94.5

Percent change in sum

54

40 28 31 35 25 17 23

Yield (kg/km2)

--

.61 .04 5.15 .30 1.04 4.75 257

Unit runoff (acre-ft/mi2)

1,180

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