Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

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Funding to maintain the continuous water-quality monitor at this site ended on December 31, 2007.

Model Form #1

TP = 0.199 + 0.0015 TURB

where:

TP is computed total phosphorus, in milligrams per liter as phosphorus
TURB is turbidity, YSI model 6136, in formazin nephelometric units

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements:	24
Mean squared error:	0.04932841
Multiple R²:	0.81
Bias correction (smearing) factor:	1

Explanatory Variables

Variable	Value	Standard error
Intercept	0.199	0.0607
TURB	0.0015	0.0002

Correlation Matrix

	Intercept	TURB
Intercept	1	-0.6654
TURB	-0.6654	1

Reference

Rasmussen, T.J., Lee, C.J., and Ziegler, A.C., 2008, Estimation of Constituent Concentrations, Loads, and Yields in Streams of Johnson County, Northeast Kansas, Using Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring and Regression Models, October 2002 through December 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5014, 103 p.