Valley Creek, south branch, hourly hydrologic data

Valley Creek is the finest of about a dozen remaining trout streams at the fringe of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in east-central Minnesota. The stream is tributary to the St.. Croix River, a federally designated National Scenic Riverway, and therefore provides an important contribution to the biodiversity of the St. Croix s watershed. Urbanization by the rapidly expanding metropolitan area may threaten the integrity of Valley Creek, and automated monitoring was begun in 1998-99 to document baseline conditions, to allow trends to be identified, and to calibrate predictive models. This dataset consists of hourly values of stream flow, temperature, and specific conductance from the south branch of Valley Creek, near its confluence with the north branch, 1998-present.