Waterborne Self-potential, Temperature, and Conductivity Logging Data from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River between Lewisville Lake Dam and Frasier Dam Recreational Area, January 2022.

Dates

Publication Date: 2022-08-02
Start Date: 2022-01-25
End Date: 2022-01-27

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Ikard, S.J., Wallace, D.S., Sievers, J.M., and Thomas, J.V., 2022, Waterborne Self-potential, Temperature, and Conductivity Logging Data from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River between Lewisville Lake Dam and Frasier Dam Recreational Area, January 2022: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99L7C8E.

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This data release contains waterborne self-potential (WaSP) and surface-water (SW) temperature, conductivity, and specific conductance data measured by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) along a 43.2-kilometer (km) long profile in the Elm Fork of the Trinity River upstream from the Dallas, Texas, metropolitan area. The WaSP data were measured from a kayak during January 25–27, 2022, along three survey segments between Lewisville Lake Dam and Frasier Dam Recreational Area. The first segment was surveyed on January 25, began a short distance downstream from Lewisville Lake Dam, and ended about 19.2 river-km downstream, a few meters upstream from Carrollton Dam in McInnish Park. The second was surveyed on January 26, began at McInnish [...]

Summary

This data release contains waterborne self-potential (WaSP) and surface-water (SW) temperature, conductivity, and specific conductance data measured by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) along a 43.2-kilometer (km) long profile in the Elm Fork of the Trinity River upstream from the Dallas, Texas, metropolitan area. The WaSP data were measured from a kayak during January 25–27, 2022, along three survey segments between Lewisville Lake Dam and Frasier Dam Recreational Area. The first segment was surveyed on January 25, began a short distance downstream from Lewisville Lake Dam, and ended about 19.2 river-km downstream, a few meters upstream from Carrollton Dam in McInnish Park. The second was surveyed on January 26, began at McInnish Park, a few meters downstream from Carrollton Dam, and ended about 15.3 river-km downstream, a few meters upstream from California Crossing Dam in California Crossing Park. The third segment was surveyed on January 27 and began a few meters downstream from California Crossing Dam and ended about 8.7 river-km downstream in the Frasier Dam Recreation Area. WaSP voltage data contained in this data release were continuously logged at a period of 1 second per measurement along each of the three survey segments by using an Agilent U1252B data-logging multimeter (Agilent, Santa Clara, California, https://www.agilent.com) and a 0.55-meter long electric dipole comprised of two freshwater-submersible, non-polarizing copper-sulfate electrodes. SW temperature and conductivity data were continuously logged at a period of 2 seconds per sample with an Onset HOBO (Onset, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, https://www.onsetcomp.com) conductivity and temperature logger. The WaSP data were monitored in real-time as they were measured and logged, and locations where electrical noise was observed in the data were recorded by a handheld GPS with a horizontal accuracy of about 2–3 meters. Four electrode-drift tests were performed to record the drift characteristics of the WaSP electrodes during data collection along survey segments. Geospatial coordinates of the measurements were recorded with a horizontal accuracy of about 10 centimeters (cm) and a vertical accuracy of about 20 cm by logging output from a Trimble DSM232 differential GPS (Trimble Geospatial, Sunnyvale, California https://geospatial.trimble.com). Streamflow hydrographs at three USGS streamgages installed along on the survey reach are included and cover the time period of the WaSP survey. The combined datasets contain 46,364 measurements of WaSP voltage in the SW and 26,943 measurements each of SW temperature, conductivity, and specific conductance, and the geospatial coordinates of each measurement.

Contacts

Point of Contact :: Oklahoma–Texas Water Science Center Public Information Officer, U.S. Geological Survey Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Process Contact :: Scott J Ikard, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :: Scott J Ikard, David S Wallace, Jeffrey M Sievers, Jonathan V Thomas
Metadata Contact :: OTWSC Public Information Officer, U.S. Geological Survey Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
Publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :: Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :: Water Resources

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Trinity_River_Metadata.xml Original FGDC Metadata	View	80.42 KB	application/fgdc+xml
WaSP_Survey_Noise_Locations.csv “Marked noise locations for WaSP data”		2.28 KB	text/csv
WaSP_Survey_Data.csv “WaSP data”		5.14 MB	text/csv
USGS_Streamflow_Data.csv “Streamflow data”		48.94 KB	text/csv
Survey_Photos.zip “Survey photographs”		8.24 MB	application/zip
Survey_Photo_and_Flow_Condition.JPG “Elm Fork of the Trinity River looking downstream. Photograph by Scott Ikard”		2.26 MB	image/jpeg
Process_Trinity_River_Data.m “Data-processing code for WaSP data”		45.98 KB	text/x-objcsrc
Electrode_Drift_Test_Data.csv “Electrode-drift test data”		100.12 KB	text/csv
Electric_Potential_Data.csv “Processed electric-potential data”		4.75 MB	text/csv
Conductivity_Temperature_Data.csv “Surface-water conductivity and temperature data”		3.28 MB	text/csv

Purpose

The waterborne self-potential survey was done to produce continuous profiles of electric potential and surface-water temperature, conductivity, and specific conductance in the Elm Fork of the Trinity River during a low-flow condition. In combination with the U.S. Geological Survey’s gaged streamflow data along the survey reach, the surface-water temperature, conductivity, and specific conductance data were collected to assist in the interpretation of the waterborne self-potential data and the electric potential processed from the raw voltages. The composite dataset is intended to provide a basis for making qualitative interpretations of variations of streaming-potential along a 43.2-km long reach in the Elm Fork of the Trinity River between Lewisville Lake Dam and the Frasier Dam Recreation Area.

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