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, TWRIWater team setting up at Sandy Creek, TWRIMeasuring the Sandy Creek stream width, TWRIMcCreight filling up the secci tube, TWRIThe water team, TWRI
Eismont writing sample date and time on bottles, TWRIPlants made the water seem more shallow than it actually was, TWRIThe team tried to use the boat at the second site, but had to switch to the handheld Flowtracker, TWRIEismont taking measurements in Sandy Creek, TWRIWater team filling the sample bottles, TWRI
The boat being used at the third site at Sandy Creek Park, near downtown Jasper, TWRI
