Item talk:Q229605

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nevada-water-science-center/science/monitoring-sediment-and-water-quality-clear-creek",
 "headline": "Monitoring Sediment and Water Quality in Clear Creek",
 "datePublished": "March 9, 2017",
 "author": [
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     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Jena Huntington",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jena-huntington",
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     "text": "Water Chemistry Samples"
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     "text": "Water chemistry samples are analyzed for major ions, trace elements, nutrients, DO, pH, specific conductance, and alkalinity."
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     "text": "Human activities, fires, and extreme precipitation events within the Clear Creek watershed have created erosion--which in some places is severe. Development in the middle and lower portions of the watershed has substantially increased urban and highway runoff and sediment entering Clear Creek.  Salt application to roads during the winter also may be affecting water quality in the creek."
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     "text": "An additional Scientific Investigations Report will be released covering data collection for the period of 2013\u201316. The additional information on sediment yield and water quality in the Clear Creek watershed will assist in evaluating current and future changes in water chemistry and sediment transport in the watershed, which may be related to increased urbanization, wildfire, and implementation of best management practices."
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     "text": "Streamflow"
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     "text": "Clear Creek is a small alpine stream that begins near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada. The creek flows roughly parallel to U.S. Highway 50 and discharges to the Carson River near Carson City, Nevada. The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is concerned about how historical and ongoing development in the Clear Creek drainage basin has/is affecting Clear Creek and its sediment-transport characteristics. The USGS Nevada Water Science Center (NVWSC), in cooperation with NDOT, has been studying streamflow, sediment, and water-quality data from the creek since 2004. Discharge, sediment and selected water-chemistry data were collected and evaluated by the NVWSC for three Clear Creek sampling sites as part of the baseline study from water years 2004-07, and an interim study from water years 2010-12.  The ongoing study (2013-16) continues the discharge, sediment, and selected water-chemistry data collection and evaluation."
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     "text": "Suspended\u2013Sediment Samples"
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     "text": "Bedload Samples"
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     "text": "Clear Creek generally flows eastward along its approximate 12-mi length and discharges to the Carson River at an altitude of about 4,600 ft. The creek has 3 main perennial branches and several small intermittent tributaries originating from springs and seeps. NVWSC has collected daily streamflow in Clear Creek since 1948. Streamflow is monitored in real-time which provides early warning of high flows and gives NVWSC the ability to sample the creek during storm events."
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     "text": "For the purposes of the three studies, Clear Creek has been divided into three reaches.  The data collection site is situated at the most downstream point on the creek within each reach."
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     "text": "Data collected as part of this study will be evaluated in context with previously collected data. According to published information in Seiler and Wood (2009), data collected during and prior to 2007 preceded the development of a planned community and golf course near the center of the study area. Site 1, located at the terminus of the upstream segment, is intended to represent undeveloped conditions and there has been little to no development within this reach. Downstream from site 1, at sites 2 and 3, data collected from 2009 through 2012 were collected during the construction of the golf course and during the preparation of the land intended for the planned residential community. Samples collected as part of this effort will capture conditions in Clear Creek after the near completion of the golf course and during the construction of the residential area."
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     "text": "Samples are collected from all three sites for the following:"
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   "name": "Nevada Water Science Center",
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