Satilla River Monitoring

Water quality monitoring began with the Satilla River and was observed from February 2000 to January 2001. Seven sites were selected from the mouth of the river up to White Oak Creek and were monitored once monthly during low tide and high tide. While in the field, we recorded temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, chlorophyll a, and light attenuation profiles for each station. Surface and bottom water samples were collected at each site for laboratory analysis of biological oxygen demand, MPN total and fecal coliform bacteria, total suspended solids, ATP, total and inorganic carbon, total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen (NH3), nitrate + nitrite nitrogen (NO3 + NO2) and orthophosphate ion (PO4) concentrations.