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Title: Turbidity-controlled suspended sediment sampling

Author: Lewis, Jack; Eads, Rand

Date: 1996

Source: Watershed Management Council Newsletter 6(4): 1 and 4-5

Description: For estimating suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in rivers, turbidity is generally a much better predictor than water discharge. Turbidity is an optical measure of the cloudiness of water caused by light scattering from suspended particles, organics, and dissolved constituents. Although it is now possible to collect continuous turbidity data even at remote sites, sediment sampling and load estimation are still conventionally based on water discharge.

Keywords: PSW4351, Caspar Creek, watershed, turbidity, suspended sediment sampling

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Lewis, Jack; Eads, Rand  1996.  Turbidity-controlled suspended sediment sampling.   Watershed Management Council Newsletter 6(4): 1 and 4-5.