Title: Strategy for the use of field instrumentation in water quality monitoring
Author: National Rivers Authority South West Region
Document Type: Monograph
Abstract:
The potential for cost saving by moving programmed monitoring from laboratories to field
instruments was reviewed, together with wider aspects of the role of field measurements in
Water Quality monitoring. Dissolved oxygen, pH, ammonia (and turbidity as an index of
effluent quality) should be moved to field monitoring for cost saving reasons, to reduce
sampling error caused by their high short term variability and to assist in pollution prevention
by provision of real time data in the field. Ammonia will require more work to meet the
monitoring performance requirements.
Publisher: National Rivers Authority
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: Exeter
Subject Keywords: pH; Water quality measurements; Sampling; Field experimentation; Laboratory experimentation; Cost benefit analysis
Extent: 21; + appendices
Permalink: http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ealit:3818
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