Use this form and the Adopt-A-Stream methods to record important information about the health of your stream. By keeping accurate and consistent records of your physical/chemical tests, you can document current conditions and changes in water quality.
| AAS group name: | Brandon Court Monitoring Group | County: | Cobb |
| Group ID number | AAS-G | Topo Map Quadrant: | |
| Site ID Number | AAS-S | ||
| Stream name | Etowah river streamlet | ||
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Certified QA/QC investigators: |
Registered participants: | ||
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Unregistered participants:
| Number of participants: | ||
| Date: (mm/dd/yyyy) | Time: (hh:mm am/pm) | Time Spent Monitoring (minutes): | Picture/Photo Documentation? yes / no |
| Site/location Description: The stream lies in a wooded corridor with lots of vegetation on the banks of the river. The stream bed is lined with rocks, This section is nestled between two neighborhoods and feeds into a lake within a quarter of a mile away. | |||
| Rain in last 24 hours | Present conditions | |||
| heavy rain | steady rain | heavy rain | steady rain | intermittent rain |
| intermittent rain | none | overcast | partly cloudy | clear/sunny |
| Amount of rain, if known? inches in last hours / days | ||||
| BASIC TESTS: | Sample 1 | Sample 2 | Result | |
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| Air Temperature | (°C) | |||
| Water Temperature | (°C) | |||
| pH | (0 - 14) | |||
| Dissolved Oxygen | (mg/L or ppm) | |||
| Conductivity | (µs/cm) | |||
| ADVANCED TESTS: | ||||
| Alkalinity | (mg/L or ppm) | |||
| Nitrate-Nitrogen | (mg/L or ppm) | |||
| Ammonia-Nitrogen | (mg/L or ppm) | |||
| Ortho-phosphate | (mg/L or ppm) | |||
| Settleable Solids | (mg/l) | |||
| Salinity | (ppt) | |||
| OTHER TESTS: | ||||
| Fecal Coliform | (cfu / 100 mL) | |||
| Chlorophyll A | (mg/L or ppm) | |||
| Turbidity | (NTU) | |||
| Secchi Disk Depth | (cm) | |||
| SPECIAL LAB ANALYSIS: Name of lab performing tests: | ||||
| COMMENTS: | ||||