TABLE 3.
Results of water quality analysis of stream samples collected monthly in WS1 and WS2 over a 17-month period
| Site | n | pH
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Temp (°C)
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Turbidity
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Enterococcal density (CFU/100 ml)a
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 95% confidence interval | Mean | 95% confidence interval | Geometric meanb | 95% confidence interval
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Geometric meanb | 95% confidence interval
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| 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 |
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.
Values of zero were converted to 0.01.