Water Quality data base (event mean concetration for TSS, TN and TP) for Australian Rivers

This event based water quality data based was developed as part of a project for the eWater CRC.

Water quality data for total suspended sediments (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) were collated from runoff events with a focus on catchment areas that have a single or majority of the contributing area under one land use. Where possible, information on the dissolved forms of nutrients were also collated. For each data point, information was included on the site location, land use type and condition, contributing catchment area, runoff, laboratory analyses, the number of samples collected over the hydrograph and the mean constituent concentration calculation method. A total of 750 entries were recorded from 514 different geographical sites covering 13 different land uses.

A paper summarising the data is available at
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X11004309

Bartley, R., Speirs, W.J., Ellis, T.W. and Waters, D.K., 2012. A review of sediment and nutrient concentration data from Australia for use in catchment water quality models. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 65(4–9): 101-116, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.08.009