1999-2000 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. Additional monitoring was conducted in 1999 and 2000 to support the planning process of the new regional wastewater treatment plant in southern Snohomish County.

The results of the 1999-2000 montioring effort which includes general water quality parameters, metals, pesticides, semi-volatile organics, PCBs, and bacteria in water column, sediment, algae, and shellfish samples are reported here, in electronic format. 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.

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Download the entire report, 31 MB

or download individual sections:

• Table of Contents (90 KB)
• Cover Page and Acknowledgments(57 KB)
• Executive Summary (80 KB)
• Chapter 1-Introduction (73 KB)
• Chapter 2-Water Quality Monitoring Programs (280 KB)
• Chapter 3-Summary of 1999 and 2000 Monitoring Data (654 KB)
• Chapter 4-CTD Transect Data(149 KB)
• Glossary(100 KB)
• References (87 KB)
• 1999-2000 Point Source Monitoring Station Locations(78 KB)
• 1999-2000 Ambient Station Monitoring Locations (85 KB)
• 1999-2000 CTD Transect Station Locations (63 KB)
• Data Tables

Download water column profile graphs. In Color!

Temperature Profiles
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	374 KB
Point Wells	2000	422 KB
Possession Sound	1999	421 KB
Possession Sound	2000	456 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	328 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	413 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	437 KB

Turbidity Profiles
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	1,072 KB
Point Wells	2000	1,171 KB
Possession Sound	1999	1,249 KB
Possession Sound	2000	1,197 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	931 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	979 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	1,003 KB

Salinity Profiles
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	437 KB
Point Wells	2000	435 KB
Possession Sound	1999	488 KB
Possession Sound	2000	492 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	931 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	488 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	476 KB

Chlorophyll a Profiles
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	416 KB
Point Wells	2000	592 KB
Possession Sound	1999	414 KB
Possession Sound	2000	530 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	524 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	652 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	563 KB

Density Profiles
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	523 KB
Point Wells	2000	559 KB
Possession Sound	1999	539 KB
Possession Sound	2000	554 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	567 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	590 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	468 KB

Dissolved Oxygen Profiles
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	429 KB
Point Wells	2000	477 KB
Possession Sound	1999	505 KB
Possession Sound	2000	509 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	381 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	474 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	442 KB

Photosynthetic Active Radiation (PAR)
Station	Year	File Size
Point Wells	1999	124 KB
Point Wells	2000	152 KB
Possession Sound	1999	114 KB
Possession Sound	2000	147 KB
Admiralty Inlet	1999	132 KB
Admiralty Inlet and Edmonds	2000	172 KB
West Point and Alki	2000	194 KB