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-50, 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-50	West of South 36th Street, immediately south of Interstate 94	Comstock Charter Township (24)

Sample	Sample	E. coli Bacteria	Water Temperature	Dissolved Oxygen		pH	Conductivity	TDS	Turbidity
*Site Code: CSC-50, Castle Creek*
Date	Time	(MPN)	(degrees F)	mg/L	% Saturation	(units)	(mS / cm)	(g / L)	(NTU)
11/08/2006	11:45	21.3	48.8	10.5	91.6%	8.14	0.561	0.4	6.0
10/26/2005	11:20	44.8	45.3	10.0	85.7%	8.03	0.573	0.4	7.7
07/27/2005	11:45	161.6	62.4	8.2	87.1%	7.98	0.550	0.4	8.2
Summary Statistics	Count	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Average	75.9	52.2	9.6	88.1%	8.05	0.561	0.4	7.3
	Minumum	21.3	45.3	8.2	85.7%	7.98	0.550	0.4	6.0
	Maximum	161.6	62.4	10.5	91.6%	8.14	0.573	0.4	8.2

Above represents the summary statistics of ambient water quality conditions and below is a summary of E. coli bacteria results for CSC-50 (Castle Creek) between July 2005 and November 2006. This site is located in Section Number 24 of Comstock Charter Township, West of South 36th Street, immediately south of Interstate 94.

		0 out of 3 water sample results exceeded 300 bacteria colonies per 100 ml of water.
		1 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.