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USGS

Overview The USGS investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters and disseminates the data to the public, State and local governments, public and private utilities, and other Federal agencies involved with managing our water resources. U.S. Geological Survey conducts long-term monitoring of lakes and rivers nationwide. They have gauges throughout many rivers in the Mississippi River basin. We've chosen to focus on gauges on the Mississippi River and its tributaries that are equipped with continuous nitrate sensors for this website.

White River at Hazleton, IN
Kansas River at Desoto, KS
Des Moines at 2nd Avenue at Des Moines, IA
Cedar River at Blairs Ferry road at Palo, IA
Iowa River at Wapello, IA
Turkey River at Garber, IA
Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, LA

Parameters

Discharge
Nitrate as N
Nitrate Cummulative Load
Nitrate Load

More information and for access to all USGS water quantity and quality data (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis)
For more information on collection methods and analysis, take a look at the Standard of Operating Procedures (http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3043/FS2007-3043.pdf).

NOAA

NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) collects wind, wave, and other marine data. The data are collected from NDBC moored buoys and from C-MAN (Coastal-Marine Automated Network) stations located on piers, offshore towers, lighthouses, and beaches. Parameters reported by both buoys and C-MAN stations include air temperature and pressure, wind speed and direction, wind gust, and sea surface temperature. The buoys (and a few C-MAN stations located on offshore towers) also report wave data, usually including wave height, wave period, and wave spectra. We've chosen to focus on buoys on the Mississippi River that are equipped with continuous water quality sensors for this website.

Parameters

Water Temperature

More information and for access to all NOAA buoy data (http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/)

For more information on collection methods and analysis, take a look at the buoy Data QA/QC procedures http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/NDBCHandbookofAutomatedDataQualityControl2009.pdf

UMRR LTRM (appended to current language)

The UMRR LTRM water quality sampling design focuses on a subset of limnological variables related to habitat quality and ecosystem function that includes physicochemical features, suspended sediment, and major plant nutrients known to be significant to aquatic habitat in this system. We've chosen to focus on long term nitrate data sets available on the Mississippi River for this website.
Parameters
Nitrate and Nitrite as N
More information and for access to all USGS water quantity and quality data http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library/water_quality/water1_query.shtml
Water Quality procedures manual http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/documents/reports/2004/04t00201.pdf

Water Quality data Portal

The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is a cooperative service sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) that integrates publicly available water quality data from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) the EPA STOrage and RETrieval (STORET) Data Warehouse, and the USDA ARS Sustaining The Earth’s Watersheds - Agricultural Research Database System (STEWARDS). We've chosen to focus on available Water Quality Portal long term (5 years) nitrate data sets available on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for this website.

Parameters

Nitrate as N
Nitrate and Nitrite as N

More information and for access to all USGS water quantity and quality http://waterqualitydata.us/