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. 2008 Sep 19;74(22):6839–6847. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00601-08

TABLE 3.

Results of water quality analysis of stream samples collected monthly in WS1 and WS2 over a 17-month period

Site n pH
Temp (°C)
Turbidity
Enterococcal density (CFU/100 ml)a
Mean 95% confidence interval Mean 95% confidence interval Geometric meanb 95% confidence interval
Geometric meanb 95% confidence interval
Lower boundary Upper boundary Lower boundary Upper boundary
WS1 sites
    1 17 6.04 ±0.28 12.85 ±2.44 44.15 17.97 108.48 74 9 640
    2 17 6.48 ±0.14 13.64 ±2.59 30.73 16.52 57.18 2,600 1,011 6,685
    3 17 6.45 ±0.16 14.21 ±2.79 26.56 14.89 47.40 1,423 795 2,547
    4 17 7.32 ±0.54 15.75 ±4.05 162.15 106.82 246.14 93 42 207
WS2 sites
    1 17 5.15 ±0.20 16.14 ±1.50 0.12 0.03 0.49 1 0 6
    2 17 6.41 ±0.29 13.59 ±2.82 58.40 26.85 127.01 81 10 658
    3 17 6.44 ±0.30 13.06 ±3.07 17.44 9.95 30.56 41 14 118
    4 17 6.41 ±0.13 14.25 ±2.45 6.13 4.24 8.87 225 83 612
    5 15 6.60 ±0.69 16.66 ±3.42 11.20 8.26 15.19 2 0 15
    6 15 6.78 ±0.39 17.89 ±3.85 11.51 8.37 15.82 5 1 36
    7 15 6.49 ±0.21 17.08 ±3.52 8.05 5.90 10.99 89 38 208
    8 12 6.72 ±0.21 15.99 ±3.95 5.82 3.78 8.98 89 7 1,142
    9 12 6.70 ±0.20 16.11 ±3.86 6.63 4.97 8.84 121 18 822
    10 15 6.60 ±0.23 14.67 ±3.32 8.43 5.43 13.10 229 89 588
    11 15 7.56 ±0.54 17.45 ±4.11 5.55 4.11 7.50 4 1 24
    12 15 6.71 ±0.16 14.03 ±2.86 7.49 5.74 9.75 5 1 30
a

Enterococcal densities recorded as too numerous to count were converted to 20,000 for WS1 and to 2,500 for WS2 based on the maximum enterococcal numbers observed in each watershed.

b

Values of zero were converted to 0.01.