Water Quality 11/6/2012

Today we went out to do water quality at the small bridge site. The water is SO COLD now (hooray for the coming winter?). We also got to see our snake friend hanging out on a rock. The results of the tests were pretty normal and consistent with the results we usually get, except for turbidity! Usually, we only have to add one squirt of the turbidity reagent for a reading of 5 JTU, but we got a reading of 15 JTU this day! This is kind of exciting for me because I had expected the turbidity to be high due to the nearby construction, but all of our water quality tests expressed low turbidity. However, it is never good that a river is more turbid...turbidity is bad. This might mean that I will have to revise the conclusion I came to for my EE, if the results continue to show a higher turbidity. Hopefully we get to visit the beach site this week to see if the turbidity is higher at that site as well.