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From the field: Sandy Creek monitoring

Cameron Castilaw
A green road sign that says Sandy Creek

The water team enjoyed mild weather in East Texas this month as they performed regularly scheduled water monitoring for the Texas Water Resources Institute’s Sandy Creek project.

Follow along as program specialists Anna Eismont and Kenneth Ferrell, along with water intern Jenna Moyers, collect water measurements and samples.

Kenneth Ferrell knee-deep in a creek taking water measurements.
Ferrell taking measurements at the first site.
Two people stand outside and look at a clipboard.
Eismont and Moyers recording Ferrell’s measurements.
A man holds a plastic bag full of water over a body of water.
Ferrell collecting a water sample in a Whirl-Pak.
A stream is surrounded by tall trees and bushes. A telephone pole runs overhead.
Downstream of the second site.
Two people walk on the side of a road holding scientific equipment.
Walking to the second site.
A woman stands knee-deep in the water and takes water samples.
Eismont taking measurements.
Two people crouch by a stream and take measurements of the water.
Ferrell and Moyers using the YSI to take additional measurements.
Three people load scientific equipment into the covered back of a white truck.
The third site was deep enough to need the boat.
A small boat floats through the water, taking water quality measurements.
The boat in action!
One person squats and looks at a computer while another person stands next to them.
Ferrell running the boat while Moyers pulls it with Eismont off camera.
A person throws a white bucket over the side of a bridge to collect water samples.
With the water too deep to stand in, the bucket was used to collect water samples. Kenneth throwing the bucket.
One person holds a white bucket filled with water and pours it into a small bottle that another person is holding.
Filling sample bottles from the bucket.
One person holds a long clear plastic tube while another person pours water from a white bucket into the tube.
The Secchi tube is also filled from the bucket to measure how clear the water is.
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