Year 2019-2021, 15 minute measurements of stage, water temperature in a small headwater stream draining a mainly wetland catchment (49% wetlands/swamp + 36% forest), Bear Meadow Brook, draining Cedar Swamp, Reading, MA.

Summary

Short name: 

WAT-YSI-Swamp-2019-2021

Abstract: 

Year 2019, 2020 and 2021 continuous measurements, every 15 minutes, were made of depth and stream temperature in a small headwater stream, Saw Mill Brook, Burlington, MA, draining a highly suburban catchment (72% residential) in the Ipswich River watershed.    Discharge is determined from stage using discharge vs stage regressions.

 

Data set ID: 

613

EML revision ID: 

1
Published on EDI/LTER Data Portal

Citation Suggestion: 

Wollheim, W. 2022. Year 2019-2021, 15 minute measurements of stage, water temperature in a small headwater stream draining a mainly wetland catchment (49% wetlands/swamp + 36% forest), Bear Meadow Brook, draining Cedar Swamp, Reading, MA. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/18cc83c080fb4d457111bc528b9be439
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Dates

Date Range: 

Tuesday, January 1, 2019 to Friday, December 31, 2021

Publication Date: 

Thursday, March 17, 2022
People

Owner/Creator: 

Wilfred Wollheim
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Data sources: 

WAT-YSI-Swamp-2019_v1_csv
WAT-YSI-Swamp-2019_v1_xls
WAT-YSI-Swamp-2020_v1_csv
WAT-YSI-Swamp-2020_v1_xls
WAT-YSI-Swamp-2021_v1_csv
WAT-YSI-Swamp-2021_v1_xls
Methodology

Methods: 

 

HOBO data loggers were used exclusively these 3 years to monitor stage height and water temperature.

 

HOBO: Depth and water temperature are recorded by the HOBO data logger.  Depths are corrected for barometric pressure changes using readings in an additional HOBO datalogger deployed at Marshview Farm.   The HOBO is deployed in a  a PVC tube, which was attached to ree-bar driven into the stream bed.  The PVC tube has holes drilled to allow adequate water circulation.

 

 

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

 

Beaver activity has been continuous since 2010, and so no rating curve information is available. However stage continues to be monitored, so changes due to storms, and/or beaver activity, relative to  the channelized state are useful information

 

Flags:

 

1-- Discharge will be calculated when a new rating curve is developed.

2-- Beaver activity
 

 

Maintenance: 

Version 01: March 17 2022.   Data sources for  2019, 2020, 2021 were combined under one ID to upload as a single dataset to Drupal and EDI; data and metadata uploaded to comply with importation to DEIMS7 and LTER Data Portal. using checks with MarcrosExportEML_HTML (working)pie_excel2007_Jun2019.xlsm 6/7/19 12:58 PM for QA/QC to EML 2.1.0