Fecal Indicator Bacteria monitoring long-term dataset for the Delaware River Basin
Data and scripts for "High fecal indicator bacteria in temperate headwater at baseflow: implications for management and public health" by Daniel T. Myers, Laura Zgleszewski, Raven Bier, Jacob R. Price, Shane Morgan, John K. Jackson, Diana Oviedo-Vargas, Melinda Daniels, David B. Arscott, and Jinjun Kan
The file "Bacteria_manuscript_figures.rmd" reproduces the figures and statistics in the manuscript from the data, run in R version 4.3.1. The script describes and reads in several .csv data files.
Land cover data was from the US National Land Cover Database 2019: Dewitz, J., & USGS. (2021). National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2019 Products (ver. 2.0, June 2021). In U.S. Geological Survey data release.
Rivers data are from the US National Hydrography Dataset: Moore, R. B., & Dewald, T. G. (2016). The Road to NHDPlus - Advancements in Digital Networks and Associated Catchments. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 52(4), 890–900. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12389
Mushroom farm data are from: Homsey, A., 2020. MushroomFarms Layer. White Clay Basemap of the White Clay Creek National Scenic River. https://udel.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4bd6252384a44beca0105e5ed4cd64d0.
Latitude and longitude coordinates for the monitoring sites (MASTER Bacteria Monitoring SiteKey_AsOf01MAR23.shp) were removed from the published dataset over concerns of sensitive private information. Please contact us if you have questions about those data.
For more information, contact:
Jinjun Kan, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Stroud Water Research Center
970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311
O: 610-910-0047;
jkan@stroudcenter.org
https://stroudcenter.org/people/kan/
