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Lake Whatcom Water Quality - Presentation To Bellingham City Council, Robin A. Matthews Jul 2015

Lake Whatcom Water Quality - Presentation To Bellingham City Council, Robin A. Matthews

Lake Whatcom Other Reports

This presentation to the Bellingham City Council on the water quality of Lake Whatcom addresses the objectives of the Institute for Watershed Studies monitoring process and the impact of water quality problems caused by storm water runoff.


Lake Whatcom Water Quality Summary Report September 30, 2014 (Rev. Oct 9, 2014), Institute For Watershed Studies Jan 2014

Lake Whatcom Water Quality Summary Report September 30, 2014 (Rev. Oct 9, 2014), Institute For Watershed Studies

Lake Whatcom Other Reports

This report summarizes the preliminary water quality data collected for the Lake Whatcom monitoring project from July–September 2014. The report format has been modified to enable hyperlinks to the figures; the links are indicated using blue text.


Austin Creek And Beaver Creek Sampling Project, Robin A. Matthews, Michael Hilles, Joan Vandersypen Oct 2005

Austin Creek And Beaver Creek Sampling Project, Robin A. Matthews, Michael Hilles, Joan Vandersypen

Lake Whatcom Other Reports

Beaver Creek and Austin Creek were sampled intensively on November 20, 2004 to measure temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total suspended solids, and fecal coliforms. The objective was to assess the amount of variability that can be expected for water quality measurements collected from these creeks at different times during the day and in different locations within the Austin Creek and Beaver Creek watersheds.


Relationship Between Drinking Water Treatment Chemical Usage And Lake Whatcom Water Quality And Algal Data, Robin A. Matthews Oct 2004

Relationship Between Drinking Water Treatment Chemical Usage And Lake Whatcom Water Quality And Algal Data, Robin A. Matthews

Lake Whatcom Other Reports

This assessment is based on daily Bellingham City water treatment data provided by Peg Wendling and a composite data file containing monthly averages for City water treatment chemical data and Institute for Watershed Studies water quality and algal data collected at the Intake site. The monthly averages were calculated using all available depths and dates from September 1992 through May 2004. (Note that the 2004 data only include January through May.)


Strawberry Sill Water Quality Analysis, Robin A. Matthews Mar 2004

Strawberry Sill Water Quality Analysis, Robin A. Matthews

Lake Whatcom Other Reports

The Strawberry Sill sampling program was included as part of the long-term Lake Whatcom monitoring program. Five lake sites are included in the long-term monitoring program: Sites 1–4, located at the deepest points in their respective basins, and the Intake site (Figure 1, page 12). Beginning in October 1996, three sampling sites were added along the 40-meter contour of Strawberry Sill (Sites s1–s3 on Figure 2, page 13). The sill sampling effort was limited to monthly Hydrolab measurements and biannual water quality analyses. In October 2000, the sampling effort along the sill was reduced to a single site (s2), and …


Park Place Wet Pond Monitoring Project 1994–2000 Summary Report, Robin A. Matthews, Mark R. Saunders, Michael Hilles, Joan Vandersypen Feb 2001

Park Place Wet Pond Monitoring Project 1994–2000 Summary Report, Robin A. Matthews, Mark R. Saunders, Michael Hilles, Joan Vandersypen

Lake Whatcom Other Reports

The Park Place monitoring program is an on-going study of the effectiveness of storm water treatment in a small wet pond located in the northwestern portion of the Lake Whatcom watershed. Water quality in the Lake Whatcom watershed has been monitored since the 1960’s by researchers at Western Washington University. During this time it has been noted that the some of the streams and storm drains entering the lake contained contaminants associated with residential development. In 1990, a comprehensive storm water runoff monitoring project was undertaken by the Institute for Watershed Studies (IWS) at Western Washington University on behalf of …