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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Microbiol Methods. 2012 Oct 12;91(3):429–433. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.10.001

Table 1.

Water quality characteristics.

Range Field temp. (°C) pH Turbidity (NTU) SC (µS/cm at 25 °C) Total hardness (mg/L of CaCO3) TSS (mg/L) TOC (mg/L of C)
Low 21 ± 3.0 7.3 ± 0.1 16 ± 2.4 87.3 ± 14.5 24 ± 2.4 0.009 ± 0.001 7.9 ± 1.0
Middle 21 ± 1.2 7.1 ± 0.1 46 ± 6.7 96.6 ± 16.9 24 ± 3.0 0.036 ± 0.012 9.9 ± 1.1
High 22 ± 1.5 7.1 ± 0.1 92 ± 7.9 85.5 ± 12.9 23 ± 4.9 0.053 ± 0.018 14 ± 2.3