Our water team started a new monitoring project this month in East Texas. Sandy Creek, which flows through Jasper, Texas, will have three sites Texas Water Resources Institute monitors, collecting water quality measurements and samples.
Follow Research Specialist Shaylynn Postma, Program Specialist Anna Eismont and Water Intern Avery McCreight as they collect flow, pH, temperature, specific conductivity and other measurements.
Postma, McCreight and Eismont using the m-9 Doppler boat to collect water measurements.
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Plants made the water seem more shallow than it actually was.
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Getting set up at the second site.
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The team tried to use the boat at the second site, but had to switch to the handheld m-9 Doppler.
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Measuring the stream width.
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Eismont taking measurements.
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The water team!
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McCreight filling up the secci tube, she'll use it to see how clear the water is.
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The boat being used at the third site at Sandy Creek Park, near downtown Jasper.
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Eismont writing sample date and time on bottles.
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Filling the sample bottles.
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