Organic carbon, temperature, oxygen, and inflow volume time series for Falling Creek Reservoir, Vinton, Virginia: Summer 2014

Weekly and subweekly monitoring data collected from June to October
2014 were used to study organic carbon dynamics in Falling Creek
Reservoir, a drinking water reservoir owned and managed by the Western
Virginia Water Authority and located in Vinton, Virginia, USA. The
dataset consists of: 1) daily inflow volumes and the temperature of
water entering the reservoir, measured at a gauged weir on Falling
Creek Reservoir’s primary inflow tributary; 2) weekly to subweekly
depth profiles of temperature and oxygen collected at the deepest site
of the reservoir adjacent to the dam; and 3) approximately weekly grab
samples of dissolved organic carbon and dissolved carbon dioxide
collected from subsurface (0.1 m depth) and just above the sediments
(9.0 m depth). This dataset also includes approximately weekly grab
samples of organic carbon and dissolved carbon dioxide in the inflow
tributary measured at the gauged weir, dissolved oxygen concentrations
in the inflow tributary measured at the gauged weir, and organic
carbon deposition rates measured at 8 m depth at the deepest site of
the reservoir approximately every 4 weeks with sedimentation traps.