Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Water Testing for Dissolved Oxygen




David and I did water testing on the Milwaukee River from the back yard dock.

We did the testing at 11:30 on 5/19/2009.

We needed to do the testing to make sure that the river is healthy.

We used a Hasch water testing kit. Here are the results

Facts

Dissolved oxygen


# plastic measuring tubes

2

#titration drops

23

MG/L

11.5

% saturation

110 %

Turbidity


Rep. 1 inches above target

16 inches

Rep. 2 inches above target

15.5

Ave. inches above target

15.75

NTUs

15

Water Temp.


Degrees f

60

Degrees c

15.6

Current Weather


Air temp. f

72

Air temp. c

22.2

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