The document discusses several suburban cluster sites for water monitoring including a water treatment plant. It describes monitoring streamflow timing, sediment disturbance, and water quality parameters during storm and baseflow. YSI data loggers would be deployed to monitor conductivity, turbidity, oxygen, and nitrate at sites on the Wissahickon and Sandy Run to study sediment erosion. Water level loggers would also be installed at some locations. Plans are described to train volunteers to collect data using a new monitoring app that would make entry easier and provide site maps, photos and access to entered data. Geochemical loggers may also be placed downstream of the water treatment plant.

1. Suburban Cluster Sites
WTP

2. Stream monitoring
• Timing of stormflow
• Timing and amount of sediment disturbance
• Changes in water quality (storm and baseflow)
Discharge
Conductivity
Turbidity
Reduced Turbidity

3. YSI Data Loggers
2-probe: conductivity & turbidity
Multiprobe: O2, Cond, Turb, FDOM
Separate nitrate probe

4. Example deployment:
hide the loggers in pipes and algae

5. Example deployment:
Sediment erosion
Wissahickon
Sandy Run

6. Example deployment:
Water level Abington Friends
Water level only

7. Example deployment:
Water level Lower Merion
Water level only

8. Volunteer Training
• Meetings with watershed staff
• Reviewing forms and goals
• Designing an App to make data entry easier
and provide citizen scientist more information

9. Monitoring App

10. Stream GIS and Site Map

11. Data Form

12. • Locate sites on map
• Enter data on forms
• View site photos
Future
• View data
• Crowdsource data collection

14. Example deployment
Geochemical loggers downstream of WTP