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About

Building upon the Kansas City Urban Stream Network, EPA worked with the USGS and local partners to establish a real-time monitoring network in the Kansas City area to provide real-time water quality data. The United States Geological Survey has pioneered an innovative approach for estimating bacteria concentrations based on basic water quality parameters. An example of this information can be found for Indian Creek at State Line Road here.

As part of this project, EPA collected paired e-coli and turbidity samples over the course of 2011, to develop a dataset sufficient to establish the necessary relationship. The results of these samples will be available by clicking on any one of the KC Urban Stream Monitor locations on the metro area map, and then clicking on the link called 2010 Bacteria Sampling. Note these results were in most instances taken at another location on the stream itself, at the potential locations of the future real-time sites.

Contact Us

KCWaters.org is a collaborative effort involving numerous partners in the metropolitan Kansas City area, but we know that there are many more groups just as active in the in the five metro area counties. You can help us by providing input on the website, helping to identify places where we can improve, and letting us know you would like to get involved. Please feel free to send an email to KCWatersinfo@gmail.com. We will get back to you as soon as we can.