Table 2.6  Turbidity (NTU) data for the 1998-99 monitoring period at the Lower Cape Fear River Program stations.
                    North Carolina state standard for freshwater is 50 NTU and for tidal saltwater is 25 NTU.

DWQ#

72

73

75

86

87

88

89

90

91

93

 

DWQ#

59

74

61

92

 

71

85

70

84

month

NAV

HB

BRR

M61

M54

M42

M35

M23

M18

SPD

 

month

NC11

LVC

AC

DP

BBT

IC

NCF6

B210

NCF117

JUN

37

32

28

18

19

14

11

11

12

22

 

JUN

26

28

24

36

20

31

30

42

8

JUL

46

27

22

20

24

25

22

15

15

17

 

JUL

20

23

23

24

20

30

16

2

no data

AUG

25

23

20

16

27

19

15

10

11

24

 

AUG

13

17

14

21

20

28

25

6

8

SEP

18

19

16

12

15

20

17

18

19

17

 

SEP

12

14

26

16

13

15

13

5

18

OCT

39

15

11

10

23

15

11

7

5

14

 

OCT

9

13

14

17

18

18

19

6

6

NOV

56

46

34

20

29

16

12

11

12

22

 

NOV

11

16

22

22

21

34

30

2

1

DEC

26

24

19

11

10

8

6

7

11

15

 

DEC

no data

no data

no data

no data

no data

no data

no data

6

5

JAN

71

55

34

25

17

10

7

17

23

14

 

JAN

130

2

119

97

64

28

12

8

5

FEB

30

31

26

25

28

32

21

12

18

16

 

FEB

58

3

63

56

13

30

5

4

6

MAR

22

26

17

13

32

9

12

16

32

15

 

MAR

12

12

10

10

10

11

15

1

APR

17

19

16

7

16

16

13

13

20

7

 

APR

14

14

13

16

13

14

21

4

2

MAY

19

13

15

14

19

14

13

14

10

14

 

MAY

15

6

17

16

10

11

8

4

6

mean

34

27

21

16

22

16

13

12

15

16

 

mean

29

13

31

30

20

23

18

8

6

std dev

16

12

7

5

6

6

5

3

7

4

 

std dev

35

8

31

25

15

8

8

11

4

max

71

55

34

25

32

32

22

18

32

24

 

max

130

28

119

97

64

34

30

42

18

min

17

13

11

7

10

8

6

7

5

7

 

min

9

2

10

10

10

11

5

2

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DWQ#

69

79

78

94

77

80

81

83

82

 

 

DWQ#

65

64

63

62

66

67

68

 

All Stations

month

ANC

SAR

GS

NC403

PB

LRC

ROC

BC117

BCRR

 

 

month

6RC

LCO

GCO

SR

BRN

HAM

COL

 

Mean

JUN

22

11

111

16

15

50

7

46

67

 

 

JUN

9

7

5

2

13

11

7

 

24

JUL

10

5

14

31

65

20

14

29

46

 

 

JUL

6

4

1

33

21

9

2

 

20

AUG

10

3

17

27

102

6

7

73

114

 

 

AUG

6

6

2

45

6

13

4

 

22

SEP

23

14

12

19

45

15

30

22

25

 

 

SEP

5

7

26

29

7

7

10

 

17

OCT

10

5

13

10

25

8

9

12

24

 

 

OCT

4

17

2

10

3

4

5

 

12

NOV

7

3

9

4

38

12

5

22

59

 

 

NOV

12

1

1

2

1

2

1

 

17

DEC

4

1

2

3

18

4

2

10

26

 

 

DEC

14

2

0

6

2

3

1

 

9

JAN

9

5

2

3

23

6

5

18

17

 

 

JAN

40

25

6

5

44

35

4

 

28

FEB

4

2

1

2

5

37

9

35

37

 

 

FEB

4

2

2

1

6

6

2

 

18

MAR

5

4

5

2

7

6

14

10

109

 

 

MAR

5

2

2

0

4

4

2

 

13

APR

4

5

3

2

26

5

4

19

20

 

 

APR

3

5

2

3

7

7

3

 

11

MAY

6

6

7

5

5

6

4

20

16

 

 

MAY

5

6

3

2

5

5

1

 

10

mean

9

5

16

10

31

15

9

26

47

 

 

mean

9

7

4

11

10

9

3

 

17

std dev

6

4

29

10

27

14

7

17

33

 

 

std dev

10

7

7

14

11

9

3

 

18

max

23

14

111

31

102

50

30

73

114

 

 

max

40

25

26

45

44

35

10

 

130

min

4

1

1

2

5

4

2

10

16

 

 

min

3

1

0

0

1

2

1

 

0