1998 Marine Monitoring Report

King County conducts an extensive water quality monitoring program on Puget Sound. This routine monitoring is done to verify that the treated effluent from King County's three wastewater treatment facilities does not degrade the water quality in the vicinity of the effluent outfalls. Additionally, ambient monitoring which focuses on areas outside the immediate vicinity of known discharges assess background conditions in central Puget Sound.

Following is an electronic version of the 1998 Marine Water Quality Status Report. Text files are in .pdf format, which are viewed with the Adobe Acrobat Reader program. If you do not have this free program, click here to download it. Data files are in Microsoft Excel format. All sections of the report are in separate files. Please contact Kim Stark for more information or assistance.

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Table of Contents

Summary

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Glossary

References

Point Source Station Locations

Ambient Station Locations

You can download all the data files from the 1998 Water Quality Report directly off the web.

Sample Type	Table Name	Parameters analyzed	File Size
Water Column	Ambient Offshore General Water Quality Parameters	Conventionals	138K
Water Column	Point Source Offshore General Water Quality Parameters	Conventionals	220K
Water Column	Offshore Water Column Bacteria	Bacteria	97K
Sediment	Point Source Sediment Conventionals	Conventionals	32k
Sediment	Ambient Sediment Conventionals	Conventionals	29k
Sediment	Point Source Offshore Metals	Metals	47k
Sediment	Ambient Offshore Metals	Metals	43k
Sediment	Intertidal Metals	Metals	30k
Sediment	Point Source Semi-Volatile Organics	Organics	281k
Sediment	Ambient Semi-Volatile Organics	Organics	137k
Sediment	Intertidal Semi-Volatile Organics	Organics	94k
Sediment	Point Source Pesticides and PCBs	Organics	115k
Sediment	Ambient Pesticides and PCBs	Organics	63k
Sediment	Intertidal Pesticides and PCBs	Organics	44k
Sediment	Offshore Organotins	Organics	34k
Sediment	Point Source Comparison With Dry Weight Standards	Metals	82k
Sediment	Ambient Comparison With Dry Weight Standards	Metals	45k
Sediment	Intertidal Comparison With Dry Weight Standards	Metals	37k
Sediment	Offshore Comparison With OC Normalized Standards	Metals	73k
Tissue	Shellfish Metals	Metals	28k
Tissue	Shellfish Semi Volatile Organics	Organics	38k
Tissue	Shellfish Pesticides and PCBs	Organics	27k
Tissue	Shellfish Bacteria	Bacteria	19k
Algae	Ambient Metals (Dry Weight)	Metals	25k
Algae	Point Source Metals (Dry Weight)	Metals	23k
Benthic	West Point Benthic Data	Diversity Indices	106k