Water Data Quality, Kalamazoo Michigan County Government Website, Environmental Health Division

Environmental Health Division
(269) 373 - 5337, www.kalcounty.com/eh

This report summarizes all water quality data collected at Site CSC-40, Castle Creek in the Kalamazoo River at Morrow Lake Dam Basin of the Kalamazoo River Corridor Sub-Watershed, which is part of the larger Kalamazoo River Watershed. (see map to the right)

Water sampling and measurements are conducted by Environmental Health Division staff.

Kalamazoo River at Morrow Lake Dam (State of Michigan Basin ID #: 17 53)
	Castle Creek
		CSC-40	West of property 2088 South 36th Street	Comstock Charter Township (25)

Sample	Sample	E. coli Bacteria	Water Temperature	Dissolved Oxygen		pH	Conductivity	TDS	Turbidity
*Site Code: CSC-40, Castle Creek*
Date	Time	(MPN)	(degrees F)	mg/L	% Saturation	(units)	(mS / cm)	(g / L)	(NTU)
11/08/2006	12:30	30.5	48.4	9.9	86.4%	8.08	0.574	0.4	4.7
10/26/2005	10:50	82.0	45.4	8.9	75.8%	7.86	0.577	0.4	6.1
07/27/2005	12:30	387.3	64.6	6.9	75.1%	7.89	0.547	0.4	6.4
Summary Statistics	Count	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Average	166.6	52.8	8.6	79.1%	7.94	0.566	0.4	5.7
	Minumum	30.5	45.4	6.9	75.1%	7.86	0.547	0.4	4.7
	Maximum	387.3	64.6	9.9	86.4%	8.08	0.577	0.4	6.4

Above represents the summary statistics of ambient water quality conditions and below is a summary of E. coli bacteria results for CSC-40 (Castle Creek) between July 2005 and November 2006. This site is located in Section Number 25 of Comstock Charter Township, West of property 2088 South 36th Street.

		1 out of 3 water sample results exceeded 300 bacteria colonies per 100 ml of water.
		0 out of 3 water sample results were between 130 and 299 bacteria colonies per 100 ml of water.
		2 out of 3 water sample results were less than 130 bacteria colonies per 100 ml of water.