Figure 1. Platte River Sub-Watersheds and Monitoring Locations.
10 2 1 9 7 BL Pond 8 Hatchery 6 3 5 4 1 Platte River at Fewins Rd 6 B. Creek to Hatchery Spring 2 Platte River at Stone Bridge 7 Platte River to Hatchery 3 Brundage Cr at Old Residence 8 Inlet to Pond 4 Stanley Creek 9 Pond Outlet 5 B. Spring to Hatchery 10 Platte River at Vets Park Figure 2. Hatchery Sampling Stations
16 17 Platte Lake 15 14 Honor 13 12 11 10 10 Platte River at Vets Park 14 Platte River at USGS 11 Carter Creek at mouth 15 North Branch at Deadstream 12 Platte River at Pioneer Rd 16 Lake Outlet at M - 22 Collison Creek 13 Platte Lake at Center - Deep 17 Figure 3. Lake and Tributary Sampling Stations for 2004.
Parameter Sampling List Frequency List S List L List C Hatchery Flow Dissolved Oxygen Count Brundage Spring to Hatchery S 2 per Week Phosphorus Temperature Weight Brundage Creek to Hatchery S 2 per Week Turbidity ph Platte River to Hatchery S 2 per Week ORP Inlet to Pond S 2 per Week Conductivity Discharge from Pond S 2 per Week Phosphorus Construction Bypass S 2 per Week Chlorophyll Storage Tank S 1 per Month Phytoplankton Weather Station S Event Zooplankton Production Data C 1 per Month Turbidity Weir Data C Seasonal Light Stream Secchi Depth Platte River at Fewins Road S 1 per Month Alkalinity Platte River at Stone Bridge S 1 per Month + Event TDS Brundage Creek at Old Residence S 1 per Month + Event Calcium Stanley Creek at Carmean Road S 1 per Month Reactive Silica Platte River at Vets Park S 1 per Month + Event Nitrate Carter Creek near mouth S 1 per Month TKN Platte River Pioneer Road S 1 per Month Weather Collison Creek near mouth S 1 per Month Platte River at USGS S 2 per Month North Branch at Deadstream Road S 2 per Month Lake Outlet at M-22 S 2 per Month Lake Platte Lake at center-deep Station L 2 per Month Sediments Special Special Macrophytes Special Special Shoreline Special Special Figure 4. Sampling Stations, Sampling Frequency, and Parameters.
CMU MDNR YSI Field Database Bottle Numbers & Instructions [ Text Files ] [ Hard Copy ] Laboratory Results & Bottle Numbers [ EXCEL Files ] [ Data Entry ] Bottle Numbers & Field Data Data Report Viewer!! [ Text Files ]?? Data Manager Master Data [ Database File ] Figure 5. Database Components.
Annual Food Fed (Lbs) 600000 500000 Food Fed 400000 300000 200000 100000 0 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year Figure 6. Long-Term Trend of Food Fed at Hatchery.
Annual Fish Production (Lbs) 600000 500000 Fish Produced 400000 300000 200000 100000 0 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year Figure 7. Long-Term Trend Fish Production at Hatchery.
Net Phosphorus Loading (Lbs) 5000 4000 TP Load 3000 2000 1000 0 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year Figure 8. Long-Term Trend of Hatchery Net Total Phosphorus Load.
Hatchery Net Total Phosphorus Load (Lbs) 3000 2000 TP Load 1000 0 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Year Figure 9. Hatchery Net Total Phosphorus Load.
Hatchery Effluent Flow (Billion Gallons per Year) 8 6 Flow 4 2 0 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Year Figure 10. Water Use at Hatchery.
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Production = 23,075 + 1,436 + 72,556 43972 = 53,095 kg P/F = 53,095/38,822 = 1.37 P in Feed = 38,822 x 0.0081 x 2.205 = 693.4 lbs Start Fish P = 43,972 x 2.205 x 0.004465 = 432.9 lbs End Fish P = 23,075 x 2.205 x 0.004465 = 227.2 lbs Mort Fish P = 1,436 x 2.205 x 0.004465 = 14.1 lbs Total Shipped Fish P = 72,556 x 2.205 x 0.004465 = 714.3 lbs Egg P = (1207 + 2607) x 2.205 x 1.3% = 109.3 lbs 527.1 lbs shipped outside 187.2 lbs planted to PR coho chinook Figure 20.
91 x 1500 x 0.003785 x 523 x 2.205 / 1,000,000 = 0.60 lbs trips gal/trip m3/gal mg/m3 lbs/kg mg/kg Storage Tank Liquid 168,922 x 90% x 0.003785 x 523 x 2.205 / 1,000,000 = 0.66 lbs Sludge 168,922 x 10% x 0.003785 x 15,000 x 2.205 / 1,000,000 = 2.1 lbs Total Waste Solids = 3.4 lbs Figure 21.
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Platte River Outfall = 455 lbs By-Pass = 167 lbs Planted = 187 lbs 189 lbs Brundage Creek Eggs = 109 lbs 216 lbs Hatchery Pond 94 lbs Loss = 71 lbs Start Fish = 433 lbs End Fish = 227 lbs Fish Food = 670 lbs Backwash Spring Storage Tank Overall 2003 Mass Balance Total Inputs = 1737 lbs Solids Waste = 1 lb Morts = 14 lbs Figure 23. Shipped = 527 lbs Total Outputs = 1649 lbs
USGS Flow of Platte River at US-31 (cfs) 250 200 150 Flow 100 50 0 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Year Figure 24.
USGS Flow of Platte River at US-31 (cfs) Flow Sampled 250 200 Flow 150 100 50 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Day Figure 25.
USGS Flow at US-31 (cfs) and Rainfall at Hatchery (inches) Flow Rain 250 6 200 5 Flow 150 100 4 3 2 Rainfall 50 1 0 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 Day Figure 26.
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Turbidity (NTU) vs Suspended Solids (mg/l) Full Range 1000 SS 800 600 400 y = 3.2355x R 2 = 0.9923 y = 2.7294x R 2 = 0.9958 Lab Meter Field Meter Linear (Field Meter) Linear (Lab Meter) 200 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 Turbidity Figure 29.
Turbidity (NTU) vs Suspended Solids (mg/l) Lower Range ss (mg/l) = 3.1467 * Turbidity (NTU) + 0.18 125 SS 100 75 50 25 Lab Meter Field Meter Linear (Field Meter) Linear (Lab Meter) 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Turbidity Figure 30.
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Lake Volume-Weighted Total Phosphorus (mg/m3) 15 12 TP 9 6 3 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 Year Figure 37.
Percent of Time TP exceeds 8 mg/m3 100 80 Percent 60 40 20 0 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 Year Figure 38.
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Secchi Depth (Feet) 25 20 Secchi Depth 15 10 Min Ave Max 5 0 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Year Figure 45.
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Copepods Fish Cyclops Cladocerans Small Herbivores Rotifer Nauplii Bosmina Daphnia Green & Golden Algae Diatoms Flagilaria Figure 60.
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< All hydroacoustic pings along transect Pings where submerged plants detected Big Platte Lake Hydroacoustic data Figure 62. <
Big Platte Lake 2003 Relative plant density (dry g/m 2 ) Estimated from acoustic survey 1300 1200 1100 1000 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 50 Figure 63. 25
Comparison of Nichols, Clifford, and Big Platte lakes Percent of Percent of Percent of Platte Lake total vol. Clifford Lake total vol. Nichols Lake total vol. Surface acres 2,481 197 158 Total volume (m 3 ) 79,993,664 3,638,849 14,619,562 Volume of littoral (4.7m extent) 7,237,355 9.05 821,922 22.59 545,633 3.73 Volume of littoral (8m extent) 13,620,727 17.03 2,182,712 59.98 1,194,824 8.17 Surface acres in 8m littoral zone 1,281 159 100 Within 8m littoral zone Relative acoustic density dry wt. g/m 2 237.35 335.33 552.08 Plant biomass (relative) lbs/acre 26.60 37.59 61.88 Mean bottom coverage by plants (%) 5.91 50.18 47.54 Mean bio-volume (%) 1.92 7.07 9.57 Est. biomass (lbs) dry wt. of plants 2,014 3,003 2,944 Dry weight Station Measured Acoustic T3grid 38.02 6.44 Figure 64. T5grid T6grid 108.87 150.15 118.76 300.65
T1 T3 T2 Figure 65. Sediment Sampling Sites.
TP (mg/g dry) 0.70 0.60 0.50 0.40 0.30 0.20 0.10 COD (mg/kg dry) 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 0.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Depth (M) 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Depth (M) Figure 66. Sediment Characteristics vs. Lake Depth.
Water/Gas OUT Dissolved Oxygen Air In Air/Nitrogen IN Water Time 64 cm Soluble P N2 In Time Sediment Figure 67. Laboratory Apparatus for Sediment Studies. 6.4 cm
Sediment Oxygen Uptake (g O 2 /m/day) 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 T1-5 T3-10 T3-5 T1-12 Site T2-22 T2-5 T3-2 TDP release (ug P/m 2 /day) 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0-50 -100-150 -61-85 -125 75 1 352 T3-10 T3-5 T1-28 T1-5 Site -27 Oxic Anoxic -12 Figure 68. Preliminary Sediment Oxygen Demand and Phosphorus Release Rates.
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E - G E - F 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 E. Coli Hot Spots in Platte Lake (2003) E - A E - B E - C E - D E - E Figure 70. June September Natural E. Coli Counts (/dl)
P - G P - F 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Phosphorus Hot Spots in Platte Lake (2003) P - A P - B P - C P - D P - E Figure 71. June September Natural Phosphorus (ug/l)
C - G C - F 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 Cladophora Hot Spots in Platte Lake (2003) C - A C - B C - C C - D C - E Figure 72. June September Natural Cladophora Area (ft 2 )
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Hatchery Point Source Non-Point Source Lake Water Quality Phosphorus Chlorophyll Dissolved Oxygen Water Clarity Lake Model Flow TP Loading BASINS Watershed Model Based on Land Use Climate Soil Type Land Slope Management Practices Figure 74. Components of BASINS and Lake Water Quality Model.
Figure 75. Platte River Watershed Land Use.
Figure 76. Platte River Watershed Soil Types.
Figure 77. Platte River Watershed Land Elevations.
Accumulative Flow at USGS USGS Measured Model 18,000 15,000 m3/sec 12,000 9,000 6,000 3,000 0 Jan-90 1990 Jan-91 1991 Jan-92 1992 Dec-92 1993 Dec-93 1994 Jan-95 1995 Jan-961996 Dec-96 1997 Dec-97 1998 Dec-98 1999 Jan-00 2000 Year Figure 78. USGS and Model Accumulative Flow (1900 2000).
Monthly Average Flow (1990-2000) Preliminary Calibration USGS Data 5 4 m3/sec 3 2 1 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Figure 79. USGS and Model Monthly Average Flow (1900 2000).
Total Annual Flow Preliminary Calibration USGS Data 160 Million m3 120 80 40 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Year Figure 80. USGS and Model Total Annual Flow (1900 2000).
USGS and Model Percent Exceedance Flow USGS Data Preliminary Calibration 12 9 m3/sec 6 3 0 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Percent Exceedance Figure 81. Percent Exceedance of Daily Average Flow (1990-2000).
Measured and Model Total Phosphorus at USGS Preliminary Calibration Measured Data mg/m3 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 32874 199033239 1991 33604 1992 339701993 343351994 347001995 350651996 354301997 357951998 36161 1999 36526 200036891 Year Figure 82. Measured and Model Total Phosphorus at USGS Station.
Figure 83. Hypothetical Application of BASINS Model for Urban Development.
Annual Average Flows (cfs) Non-Point = 3.0 Direct = 8.8 Rainfall = 11.7 Non-Point = 2.2 Non-Point = 10.1 Non-Point = 0.74 North Branch = 31.1 Collision = 6.4 Outlet = 161.4 Evaporation = 15.9 USGS = 122.8 Upstream = 72.9 Honor Carter = 9.7 Brundage Cr = 6.5 Non-Point = 2.9 Hatchery = 20.1 PR = 8.8 Brundage Cr = 7.9 Hatchery Spring = 3.4 Figure 84. Watershed and Lake Flow Balance for 2003.
Non-Point = 475 Non-Point = 577 Outlet = 2461 Atmosphere = 267 North Branch = 459 Collision = 171 USGS = 4837 Upstream = 3079 Macrophytes = 85 Honor Carter = 253 Brundage Cr = 324 Settling = 3921 Sediment Release = 120 Hatchery = 622 PR = 189 Fish Loss = 120 Planted = 19 Brundage Cr = 216 Hatchery Spring = 94 Figure 85. Watershed and Lake Phosphorus Balance (lbs/yr) for 2003.
Outflow Epilimnion Atmospheric P Load Point and Non-Point Exchange Settling P Loads Metalimnion Exchange Settling Hypolimnion Sediment P Release Sediment Settling Figure 86. Components of Lake Water Quality Model.
Particulate Phosphorus Temperature Soluble Phosphorus Sediments Secchi Depth Algae Dissolved Oxygen Zooplankton Figure 87. Kinetic Components of Lake Water Quality Model.
Temperature (F) 80 60 40 20 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Top Temp Input Data Temperature (F) 80 60 40 20 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Mid Temp Model Temperature (F) 80 60 40 20 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Bot Temp Model Figure 88: Three Layer Model Results for Temperature for 2000.
DO (mg/l) 18 15 12 9 6 3 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Top Oxy Model DO (mg/l) 18 15 12 9 6 3 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Mid Oxy Model DO (mg/l) 18 15 12 9 6 3 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Bot Oxy Model Figure 89: Three Layer Model Results for Dissolved Oxygen for 2000.
Total P (mg/m3) 18 15 12 9 6 3 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Top TP Model Chlorophyll (mg/m3) 8 6 4 2 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Top Chl Model Secchi Depth (m) 8 6 4 2 0 0 100 200 300 400 Day Secchi Model Figure 90: Model Results for Total Phosphorus, Chlorophyll, and Secchi Depth for 2000.