Carver County FY 14 Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG)
Carver County Staff will monitor Silver Creek at station S000-843 following the basic monitoring regime. S000-843 is located in the Lower Minnesota subwatershed in southeastern Carver County. The monitoring will be conducted from 2014 to 2015 and include 13 site visits in 2014; collecting TSVS, TSS, Total P, Ammonia-N, TKN, NO2+NO3, Sulfate, Chloride, and Hardness as CaCO3 ten times. E.coli will be collected nine times in 2014. Secchi tube readings, Specific conductance, temperature, pH, DO, one upstream photograph and recreational suitability, appearance, and stage estimate will be collected 13 times in 2014. In 2015, monitoring will include six site visits, collecting E.coli, Secchi tube, specific conductance, temperature, pH, DO, one upstream photograph, recreational suitability, appearance, and stage estimate.