Project Goals and Objectives:

Click here for temperature data provided on a yearly basis.

Click here for sampling protocols for temperature monitoring.

Temperature monitoring was determined to be one of the most important aspects to record.  For more information on the impacts of water temperature, click here.  The project team installed six monitoring stations both upstream and downstream of the two developments to ensure adequate data were obtained. Temperature data were obtained between May 1 and Oct. 1.

 As shown on the map below, temperature monitors were  placed in the Kinnickinnic River upstream (Site 3) of the potential Hans Hagen Development, and upstream (Site 2) and downstream (Site 1) of  the Sterling Ponds Development.  A Trout Unlimited temperature monitoring station (Site 1A) between Sites 1 and 2 has been operating since 1992.

The temperature of the water both above and below each development is important. Temperature monitoring upstream and downstream of the Sterling Ponds property is possible, as Sumner Creek (a small, intermittent tributary of the Kinnickinnic River) extends through the property.  Temperature monitors were placed in Sumner Creek at locations upstream (Site 6) and downstream (Site 4 and 4a) of the Sterling Ponds Development.  Three temperature monitors (Site 5) were placed in and around one of the Sterling Ponds storm water detention ponds (wet pond).  As for the Proposed Future Development, there is no particular drainage way running through this area.  A temperature monitor may be placed at the constructed outlet of the property, but until then it may be difficult to determine where the surface water enters the Kinnickinnic River. 

For a printable (.pdf) version of the map, click here.