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Water-quality data collected for Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

We deployed a sampler to characterize water quality from a household well tapping a shallow fractured dolomite aquifer in northeast Wisconsin. The sampler was deployed from January to May 2017, and monitored temperature, nitrate, chloride, specific conductance, and fluorescent dissolved organic matter on a minute time step; water was directed to sequential microbial filters during three recharge periods that ranged from 5 to 20 days. Results from the automated sampler demonstrate the dynamic nature of the household water quality, especially with regard to microbial targets, which were shown to vary 1 to 2 orders of magnitude during a single sampling event. We believe assessments of pathogen occurrence and concentration, and related assessments of drinking well vulnerability, would be improved by the time-integrated characterization provided by this sampler. This data release provides the data collected during this study and use for analyses described by Owens et al., 2018.

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Author(s) Mark A. Borchardt, Maureen A. Muldoon, Aaron D Firnstahl orcid, David W Owens orcid, Randall J Hunt orcid
Publication Date 2019
Beginning Date of Data 2017-01-10
Ending Date of Data 2017-05-11
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VO1KF9
Citation Borchardt, M.A., Muldoon, M.A., Firnstahl, A.D., Owens, D.W., and Hunt, R.J., 2019, Water-quality data collected for Kewaunee County, Wisconsin: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VO1KF9.
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Metadata Date 2020-08-27
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