An egret stands watch at the Lower Nixon site.| Location: |
Latitude N: 39.84464 Longitude W: 119.38085 Elevation: 3865 ft. Washoe County, NV, near SR 447, Nixon, NV 89424 |
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| Equipment: |
A YSI 6920 multiparameter water quality sonde is used to obtain temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, salinity, tds, and turbidity. A 18"x12" kicknet, 500 micron mesh, is used to collect benthic macroinvertebrates. A densiometer is used to get an estimate for canopy cover along the 500 meter reach. |
| Period of Record: | 1999 to present |
The Tribe's Physical Habitat & Bioassessment monitoring program began on the lower Truckee River in 1989. Physical Habitat & Bioassessments are conducted annually at eleven locations on the lower Truckee River, usually during base flows (end of August). Physical Habitat assessments are conducted within a 20 x 500 meters reach of the river. Water samples, in situ stream measurements, and benthic macroinvertebrates are collected at the mid point of the reach following protocols in the Tribe's 2007 Quality Assurance Project Plan.(7.4 Mb PDF file)
Documents related to this location:
- Lower Nixon Data for Truckee River Benthic Macro-invertebrates collected: 1999-2007 (117k Excel file)
- Lower Nixon Physical Habitat Scores for 1999-2008 (152k PDF file)
- 2007 Quality Assurance Project Plan for Physical Habitat & Bioassessment Monitoring in Surface Waters of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada: Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Stream Bioassessment Procedure (7.4 Mb PDF file)
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Appendix A for 2007 Quality Assurance Project Plan - PLPT Stream Bioassessment Procedures
for collecting Benthic Macroinvertebrates (573k PDF file) - Links to other PDF documents related to this specifc sampling site, including monitoring studies, planning documents, reports, PowerPoint and similar types of presentations, etc.
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Links to GIS data and maps of this location:
- Pyramid Lake Geographic Information Systems Program - This program develops maps and other GIS resources for the PLPT web site. This page also provides a GIS Data/Map Request Form.
- Link to any GIS data and map sources that may exist for this site.
Links to networking web site(s):
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Water Quality Network - Visit this experimental interest network project that encourages web site users to exchange ideas, stories, images and place based map locations.
- Links to any other interest network web sites that have wikis, blogs or other popular networking opportunities such as FaceBook, Twitter, etc.