Water Quality Status Report For Marine Waters, 2004
A Report on Water Quality in Puget Sound

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The 2004 Water Quality Status Report for Marine Waters summarizes the results of King County’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and ambient marine monitoring programs for 2004. The report provides an overview of the sites monitored, matrices sampled (e.g. water, sediment, shellfish, macroalgae), parameters measured, and includes a summary of analytical results.

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Cover (89 kb)

Table of Contents (205 kb)

Introduction (522 kb)

Water Quality Monitoring Programs (530 kb)

Summary of 2004 Monitoring Data (4.6 mb)

Summary of Sediment Monitoring Data (633 kb)

Summary of Tissue Monitoring Data (88 kb)

Water Quality Monitoring Data Summary (62 kb)

Glossary (51 kb)

References (30 kb)

CTD Profiles (720 kb)

Appendices Index (34 kb)

Appendix A: Water Column Monitoring Data

• Table A-1: 2004 Offshore outfall general water quality parameters
• Table A-2: 2004 Offshore ambient general water quality parameters
• Table A-3: 2004 Outfall beach general water quality parameters
• Table A-4: 2004 Beach ambient general water quality parameters
• Table A-5: 2004 Offshore outfall bacteria
• Table A-6: 2004 Offshore ambient bacteria
• Table A-7: 2004 Beach outfall bacteria
• Table A-8: 2004 Beach ambient bacteria

Appendix B: Sediment Monitoring Data

• Table B-1: 2004 Offshore conventionals
• Table B-2: 2004 Offshore metals
• Table B-3: 2004 Offshore chlorinated pesticides and PCBs
• Table B-4: 2004 Offshore semi-volatile organics
• Table B-5: 2004 Beach conventionals
• Table B-6: 2004 Beach metals
• Table B-7: 2004 Beach chlorinated pesticides and PCBs
• Table B-8: 2004 Beach semi-volatile organics
• Table B-9: 2004 Offshore organotins

Appendix C: Shellfish Tissue Data

• Table C-1: 2004 Metals
• Table C-2: 2004 Chlorinated pesticides/PCBs
• Table C-3: 2004 Semi-volatile organics
• Table C-4: 2004 Butter clam shell lengths

Appendix D: Macroalgae Monitoring Data

• Table D-1: 2004 Metals

Appendix E: Monitoring Station Locations

• Table E-1: 2004 Outfall monitoring station locations
• Table E-2: 2004 Ambient monitoring station locations