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2018 Meander C floodplain groundwater chemistry from the East River Watershed, Colorado.

Creators: Patricia Fox, Cam Anderson, Marco Keiluweit, Christian Dewey, Peter Nico
Year: 2023
DOI: 10.15485/1836833
License: CC-BY 4.0
Location: The East River (ER) is a snow‐dominated, headwater basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) located in the western United States. The ER is the designated testbed of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (WFSFA). Through WFSFA, observational networks have been established to measure stream discharge and precipitation chemistry. The ER is considered representative of many snow‐dominated headwaters of the Rocky Mountains. The study domain encompasses nearly 85 square km, a 1.4‐km vertical drop in elevation (4,120 to 2,760 m) and pristine alpine, subalpine, montane, and riparian ecosystems. The ER contains high‐energy mountain streams to low‐energy meandering floodplains and is eroding primarily into the Cretaceous, carbon‐rich, marine shale of the Mancos Formation. Additional metadata on specific locations within the watershed are provided in the following related data package: Varadharajan C. et al. (2020) doi:10.15485/1660962
Temporal extent: 2018-05-27 to 2018-09-23
Bounding box: 38.880°N to 39.034°N, -107.050°W to -106.880°W
Publisher: RMBL
Tags: East River, groundwater, floodplain, geochemistry, anions, cations, river corridor, CATEGORICAL:NONE Anions, Cations, Dissolved Ammonia, Patriculate/Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Patriculate/Dissolved Organic Carbon, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Groundwater, Geology & Tectonics, Geochemistry & Isotopes, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs

Description

This dataset includes groundwater geochemistry data from floodplain piezometers collected as a part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA) located in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The data were collected in order to investigate the role of hyporheic exchange and other river corridor processes on riverine export of solutes. Floodplain piezometers installed along two transects across Meander C in the Pumphouse vicinity (MCP and MCB wells) were sampled on daily to weekly time scales during summer-fall 2018. Some river water grab samples are also included. Data includes in-field measurements (pH, electrical conductivity [EC], oxidation reduction potential [ORP], dissolved oxygen [DO], Fe(II), and groundwater level) along with laboratory measurements (dissolved inorganic carbon [DIC], dissolved organic carbon [DOC], metals and major cations, anions [chloride, sulfate, nitrate], and dissolved ammonium). Five files are included in this dataset, including: sample locations and depths in both a kmz file which can be opened in Google Earth and a csv file, sampling protocol as a pdf document, aqueous geochemistry data in a csv file, and analytical detection limits in a csv file. Keywords CATEGORICAL:NONE

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