Bennett Creek CO near Fort Collins, Colorado (WQMP-Bennett)

Organization	Rocky Mountain Flycasters Trout Unlimited
Registration Date	Nov. 13, 2022, 12:14 a.m.
Deployment Date	-
Latitude	40.67294436
Longitude	-105.478333
Elevation (m)	2060.0
Elevation Datum	MSL
Site Type	Stream
Stream Name	Bennett Creek
Major Watershed	Cache LaPoudre River
Sub Basin	-
Closest Town	Rustic, CO
Notes	We have no cell service at this site. It is a manual uploaded site. Installed Mayfly1.1 data logger with EC-temp-depth sensor on 10-29-2022. After install had a splice problem on extension cable from initial start up and at the end of the the first data set up load. Removed bad data lines as follows: 2022-10-29 12:15:00. to 2022-10-29. 16:15:00. total of 8 bad data sets. 2022-11-10 8:30:00. to 2022-11-11 10:00. total of 102 bad data sets. We moved data logger close enough to sensor to remove glitchy extension cables with splice. Directly connected sensor cable to logger. Second upload of 3 data sets on 2022-11-11 11:00:00 to 11:30:00 where checked as good data at the site before we left for the day. Missdata due to operator error since 2022-11-11. Got site up and running on 11-22-2022 with fresh SD card. received and checked to 15 minute data sets today. Hopefully next load will have more data. Visited site on 1-25-2023 with Phil and Guy. Data monitor worked through winter so far. swapped out microsd to start new log. 5/3/2023 site visit today. Swapped MicroSD cards for manual upload. Cleaned sensor. Found a little silt inside sensor above the EC contacts. Found it to be very clean. River was cloudy and runoff has started about April 30, 2023. Visited site on 8-9-2023. Swapped out SD card with backup to download data to MMWS site. There was evidence of higher water flows. Found a very large rock and wood debris lodged beside pvc for probe. The sensor was buried in sand an rocks and will need to be cleaned or adjusted. Water was a little murky. Mayfly data logger in great condition. Water must have been more the a foot or two higher than the probe. Revisited site to fix the probe that was buried in the gravel. Found the rebar pin was bent so cleaned out the area around the sensor. We will need to buy a new rebar pin and a new PVC pipe because the rock that lodged into bent everything. retook stream data, allowed one new point to be taken so I can compare actual stream conditions to sensor data. Actual data was 63.5 deg F, 9.5 inch depth to bottom of sensor, and EC was 145 us/cm. CSV file reported 63.1 def F, 9.9 inch, 144 us/cm. everything is reading better. this data was taken at 12:30 MST 8-11-2023 on the datalogger and about 12:25 MST 8-11-2023 on the actual stream data. The probe was out of the water for stream cleaning around the probe from gravel and debris at 12:15 MST 8-11-2023. It was back in at sampling before the 12:30 reading. Site visit 10-25-2023 By Phil Wright. Cards were swapped. Probe was found covered with gravel and sand. Data from 8-19-2023 10:45:00 MST to 10-25-2023 10:15:00 MST was manually uploaded on 11-5-2023. Removed probe from stream and removed Mayfly for at least the winter 11-3-2023. The icing build up in this stream can impact the performance of these sensors. This site has been experiencing severe granite graveling and sand causing the probe to be regularly covered. It is only about 7 to 9 inches average depth of water. All plunge pools we have surveyed hav almost the same conditions. We will determine at a later date if this Mayfly station will be redeployed at this site. Final data set taken which runs from 10-25-2023 10:45:00 vto 11-3-2023 14:15:00 was uploaded on 11-5-2023.

Sensor Observations at this Site

Only the most recent 72 hours of available data are shown on the sparkline plots. The plots are broken when there are gaps in the data longer than 6 hours. Plots shaded in green have recent data. Plots shaded in red have not reported data in the last 72 hours.