Middle Shuswap Water Stewards

This page links to sample testing results and other items about the watershed from Sugar Lake to Mabel Lake, not including the lakes themselves.

Shuswap River -- Oddfellows Campground

The Middle Shuswap Water Stewards is a combination of 2 groups of volunteers, the Cherryville Water Stewards (CWS) and the Middle Shuswap & Lumby Water Stewards (MSL). The Middle Shuswap watershed stretches from Sugar Lake to Mabel Lake. Cherryville Stewards are augmented by Claude Labine, who pays for his results. Together they concentrate on three creeks and some spots along the Shuswap River. The MSL group takes samples in the Bessette watershed, and also a couple of spots along the Shuswap.

Although Cherryville results are on this site you're visiting, The Cherryville Water Stewards have a (nice!) web site at https://www.crmc-cherryville.ca/thecherryvillewaterstewards,

Analysis of the samples gathered by these volunteers is funded by the Regional District of North Okanagan.

Indexes to the test results as submitted to and reported by CARO (Kelowna), along with the Hach meter readings where available, are listed below.

Cherry Creek, Bessette Creek and Upper Middle Shuswap River Watersheds see page bottom

The number of constituents (analytes) in each test is vast, particularly for samples tested for metals. So some analytes have been selected as important or interesting, particularly if they have tended to exceed published limits with regard to the requirements of aquatic life or human recreation. They have been displayed in three watershed groupings from upstream to downstream.

N.B. The British Columbia provincial government has an excellent web site for tables of standards and discussions of what they are based on. http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/water-quality/water-quality-guidelines/approved-water-quality-guidelines

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CARO Reports - Upper Middle Shuswap (Cherryville)

Below is a list of posts with attachments as received from CARO Analytics Services. The attachments show the analyses for each of our sampling days throughout the years since 2008. On some days, analyses were augmented to include metals.

Every sampling day we also used a Hach meter (thanks to Claude Labine) to measure the water's oxygen content at each location, by immersing the Hach probe in the stream and reading the milligrams per litre (mg/L) displayed by the meter. The readings are (in the process of being included) in the posts, along with the water temperature, the air entrainment percentage, and the atmospheric pressure, from which the meter calculates the Dissolved Oxygen (DO).

Test results from the Upper Middle Shuswap River, Cherry Creek and often including Reiter & Ferry Creeks:

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Sampling - Nov 17, 2024

Sun Nov 17, 2024 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Date	Time	Source	O₂ mg/L	Temp °C	Entrain %	Press. hPa	Water	Disturb.	Weather	Rainfall

Date	H Time	Time	ID	Source	mg/l O2	ºC	%	hPa
16-Nov-14	11:57	12:30	83	Harris	13.09	0.1	92.5%	984
16-Nov-14	11:41	12:14	82	Duteau	13.29	0.1	93.8%	985
16-Nov-14	11:06	11:39	81	Mid Bessette	13.57	0.0	95.3%	988
16-Nov-14	10:39	11:11	80	Lower Bessette	13.81	0.3	97.4%	992
16-Nov-14	10:29	11:01	79	Shuswap Wilsey	13.72	3.2	104.3%	994
16-Nov-14	09:59	10:32	78	Shuswap Oddfellows	13.33	2.3	98.4%	1000

	E.coli
	primary contact maximum 77/100mL ^(*)
November	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	g-Mean
North Fork	<1	<1	<1	1	<1	<1	31	4	1	1	3	1	2	<1	2	2.7
South Fork > 1/2 Mile (§)	1	<1	<1	<1	1	<1	4	<1	3	1	<1	<1	<1	<1	<1	1.6
Mid Cherry				<1	1	<1	9	7	3	2	26	2	8	2	<1	4.6
Lower Cherry	1	1	<1			1	7									1.6
geometric Mean	1.00	1.00	<1	1.00	1.00	1.00	9.40	5.29	2.08	1.26	8.98	1.41	4.00	2.00	2.00
August
North Fork	8	2	4	8	7	7	3	2	12	2	150	1	9	8	8	6.2
South Fork > 1/2 Mile (§)	10	1	<1	3	6	5	5	1	6	<1	<1	<1	2	1	1	3.6
Mid Cherry				12	15	7	12	18	21	6	110	20	13	6	10	15.7
Lower Cherry	3	2	5			8	18			34	(1) ¥					7.3
geometric Mean	6.21	1.59	4.47	6.60	8.57	6.65	7.54	3.30	11.48	7.42	128.45	4.47	6.16	3.63	4.31
May
North Fork	1	4	27	2	<1	1	1	5	3	1	3	1	1	34	1	2.5
South Fork > 1/2 Mile (§)	2	6	<1	<1	1	2	3	3	2	2	1	<1	<1	<1	<1	2.1
Mid Cherry				<1	10	8	2	10	4	6	2	126	8	11	10	5.0
Lower Cherry	4	44	20			5	6				3	6	(31) ¥			8.3
geometric Mean	2.00	10.18	23.24	2.00	3.16	2.99	2.45	5.31	2.88	2.29	2.06	9.11	2.83	19.34	3.16

	Total Nitrogen

November	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	gMean
North Fork	0.140	<0.050	0.167	0.105	0.206	0.159	0.104	<0.05	<0.05	0.334	0.157	<0.05	<0.05	0.106	0.153
South Fork > 1/2 Mile (§)	0.160	0.088	0.279	0.120	0.138	0.162	0.103	0.159	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05	0.051	0.127
N. Fork at Junction	0.070	0.093													0.081
S. Fork at Junction	0.190	0.065													0.111
Mid Cherry			0.181	0.100	0.182	0.180	0.151	<0.05	<0.05	0.249	0.099	0.132	0.197	0.044	0.138
Lower Cherry	0.160	0.117		0.179	0.138	0.139					.071 (*)				0.145
geometric Mean	0.14	0.09	0.20	0.12	0.16	0.16	0.12	0.16	0	0.29	0.10	0.13	0.20	0.06
August
North Fork	0.210	<0.050	0.097	0.085	0.106	0.082	0.189	0.228	<0.05	0.108	0.065	0.135	<0.05	0.104	0.118
South Fork > 1/2 Mile (§)	0.250	<0.050	0.059	0.149	0.086	0.054	0.053	0.124	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05	0.092	<0.05	<0.05	0.094
N. Fork at Junction	0.270	<0.050													0.270
S. Fork at Junction	0.340	<0.050													0.340
Mid Cherry			0.132	0.188	0.078	0.050	0.093	0.072	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05	0.127	<0.05	0.091	0.096
Lower Cherry	0.290	<0.050		0.110	0.097	0.066				<0.05					0.120
geometric Mean	0.27	0	0.09	0.13	0.09	0.06	0.10	0.13	0	0.11	0.07	0.12	0	0.10
May (freshet)
North Fork	0.290	0.155	0.167	0.284	0.281	0.231	0.355	0.239	0.238	0.143	0.143	0.197	0.087	0.143	0.198
South Fork > 1/2 Mile (§)	0.290	0.266	0.227	0.417	0.340	0.432	0.208		0.164	0.104	0.074	0.105	0.080	0.062	0.175
N. Fork at Junction	21.000	0.160													1.833
S. Fork at Junction	0.340	0.217													0.272
Mid Cherry			0.291	0.309	0.357	0.185	0.058	0.242	0.207	0.123	0.334	0.318	0.159	0.267	0.215
Lower Cherry	0.320	0.210		0.264	0.442	0.183						.155 (¥)			0.270
geometric Mean	0.72	0.20	0.22	0.31	0.35	0.24	0.16	0.24	0.20	0.12	0.15	0.18	0.10	0.13

	Dissolved O2 mg/L
	aquatic life minimum 8.00 mg/L
mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	g-Mean
Harris	12.30	13.09	11.15	10.75	11.97	12.69	11.25	12.00	11.07	11.78
Duteau	11.99	13.29	10.85	11.72	11.29	13.09	11.08	12.19	11.54	11.87
Vance			11.67	12.05	12.06	13.05	11.83	12.38	11.86	12.12
Mid Bessette	12.57	13.57	11.22	11.59	12.25	12.96	11.45	12.29	11.64	12.15
Lower Bessette	12.74	13.81	11.59	11.90	12.69	13.13	11.79	11.54	12.15	12.35
geometric Mean	12.40	13.44	11.29	11.59	12.04	12.98	11.48	12.08	11.65
mid September
Harris	9.69	10.72	9.24							9.86
Duteau	8.89	9.94	8.89							9.23
Vance			10.12							10.12
Mid Bessette	10.66	11.46	10.22							10.77
Lower Bessette	10.38	11.19	10.08							10.54
geometric Mean	9.88	10.81	9.69
mid August
Harris	9.70	9.19	9.32	8.61	8.26	9.39	8.35	8.85	9.21	8.97
Duteau	9.29	8.67	9.21	8.66	8.16	9.98	8.86	9.41	9.75	9.09
Vance			10.27	9.96	9.84	10.76	9.91	10.06	9.78	10.08
Mid Bessette	9.93	9.49	10.15	9.61	8.65	10.32	9.27	8.94	10.96	9.68
Lower Bessette	9.49	9.57	9.93	9.71	8.66	10.54	8.91	9.44	8.99	9.46
geometric Mean	9.60	9.22	9.77	9.29	8.69	10.19	9.05	9.33	9.71
mid July
Harris	9.38	8.72	8.68							8.92
Duteau	8.98	8.24	8.43							8.54
Vance			9.94							9.94
Mid Bessette	10.43	10.44	9.28							10.03
Lower Bessette	10.56	9.32	9.16							9.66
geometric Mean	9.81	9.14	9.08
mid May (freshet)
Harris	10.98	11.55	8.90	10.71	10.83	10.55	10.59	11.18	10.80	10.65
Duteau	9.57	9.70	10.41	9.65	9.25	9.01	9.87	10.29	9.62	9.70
Vance			10.66	10.95	10.91	10.84	10.85	11.27	10.74	10.89
Mid Bessette	10.33	10.98	9.98	10.21	10.52	10.16	10.35	10.71	10.82	10.45
Lower Bessette	10.72	11.15	10.23	10.48	10.44	10.42	10.54	10.98	10.96	10.65
geometric Mean	10.39	10.82	10.02	10.39	10.37	10.18	10.43	10.88	10.58
mid April
Harris	12.05	12.63	11.45							12.03
Duteau	12.09	12.61	10.95							11.86
Vance			11.87							11.87
Mid Bessette	11.69	12.40	11.40							11.82
Lower Bessette	11.09	12.53	12.01							11.86
geometric Mean	11.72	12.54	11.53

	Temperature ºC
	aquatic life maximum 10.0
mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	g-Mean
Harris	2.6	0.1	4.6	4.7	3.2	1.0	4.2	1.9	3.8	2.0
Duteau	3.1	0.1	4.8	5.6	3.5	2.1	4.8	2.5	4.2	2.4
Vance			4.9	5.1	3.7	1.8	4.5	3.2	4.2	3.7
Mid Bessette	2.8	0.0	5.2	5.3	3.6	1.5	4.7	2.4	4.0	3.4
Lower Bessette	2.6	0.3	5.0	5.5	3.2	1.8	4.8	3.0	4.0	2.7
geometric Mean	2.8	0.1	4.9	5.2	3.4	1.6	4.6	2.6	4.0
mid September
Harris	16.9	9.8	14.2							13.3
Duteau	16.6	10.3	14.0							13.4
Vance			11.4							11.4
Mid Bessette	18.0	10.7	14.8							14.2
Lower Bessette	16.3	10.2	15.1							13.6
geometric Mean	16.9	10.2	13.8
mid August
Harris	18.7	17.3	15.5	16.4	16.4	12.5	16.2	15.5	16.7	16.1
Duteau	17.5	17.4	15.8	16.5	17.0	13.1	16.9	16.5	17.4	16.4
Vance			11.7	12.3	12.0	9.4	12.2	11.3	13.3	11.7
Mid Bessette	18.1	17.8	16.3	17.3	17.1	12.8	16.9	17.0	17.5	16.7
Lower Bessette	17.9	18.3	17.2	17.8	18.0	12.9	17.7	16.4	18.6	17.1
geometric Mean	18.0	17.7	15.2	15.9	15.9	12.1	15.8	15.2	16.6
mid July
Harris	16.4	17.5	17.7							17.2
Duteau	16.5	17.4	18.3							17.4
Vance			12.9							12.9
Mid Bessette	16.4	17.6	18.3							17.4
Lower Bessette	16.0	18.6	18.8							17.8
geometric Mean	16.3	17.8	17.0
mid May (freshet)
Harris	7.8	5.7	15.0	8.4	8.0	8.6	8.6	6.4	7.2	8.1
Duteau	12.3	12.0	9.9	11.6	15.5	14.2	12.7	11.1	13.6	12.4
Vance			9.6	8.1	8.0	8.1	8.1	6.7	7.7	8.0
Mid Bessette	9.6	7.2	11.3	9.9	9.0	9.7	9.3	7.5	7.1	8.9
Lower Bessette	9.0	7.3	11.6	10.0	9.5	9.8	9.7	7.5	7.4	9.0
geometric Mean	9.5	7.7	11.3	9.5	9.7	9.9	9.6	7.7	8.3
mid April
Harris	6.0	4.3	6.0							5.4
Duteau	5.4	4.0	7.9							5.5
Vance			5.0							5.0
Mid Bessette	5.9	4.2	5.8							5.2
Lower Bessette	9.3	4.5	5.8							6.2
geometric Mean	6.5	4.2	6.0

	pH
	salmonids 6.5 – 9.0
mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	g-Mean
Harris	7.90	7.89	8.02	7.46	8.05	7.90	7.86	7.90	7.77	7.75	7.86
Duteau	7.79	7.84	7.91	7.71	8.01	8.00	7.84	7.85	7.60	7.22	7.84
Vance			8.25	8.11	8.30	8.26	8.20	8.25	8.19	8.29	8.22
Mid Bessette	8.06	8.01	8.05	7.66	8.12	8.05	8.00	8.06	7.75	7.83	7.97
Lower Bessette	8.15	8.08	8.03	7.71	8.18	8.08	8.03	8.03	7.92	8.15	8.02
geometric Mean	7.97	7.95	8.05	7.73	8.13	8.06	7.98	8.02	7.84	7.84
mid September
Harris	8.05	7.71	8.03								7.93
Duteau	7.94	7.68	7.92								7.85
Vance			8.29								8.29
Mid Bessette	8.28	7.95	8.14								8.12
Lower Bessette	8.37	8.06	8.27								8.23
geometric Mean	8.16	7.85	8.13
mid August
Harris	8.12	7.99	8.12	7.86	8.06	7.97	7.89	7.88	8.15	7.62	8.00
Duteau	7.93	7.72	7.89	7.61	7.83	7.86	7.70	7.79	7.96	7.92	7.81
Vance			8.31	8.27	8.40	7.28	8.25	8.36	8.31	8.24	8.16
Mid Bessette	8.12	7.97	8.13	8.00	8.23	8.07	7.98	8.12	8.28	7.92	8.10
Lower Bessette	8.18	8.11	8.28	8.17	8.26	8.18	8.14	8.22	8.23	8.05	8.20
geometric Mean	8.09	7.95	8.14	7.98	8.15	7.87	7.99	8.07	8.19	7.95
mid July
Harris	7.92	7.87	7.90								7.90
Duteau	7.92	7.87	7.69								7.83
Vance			8.34								8.34
Mid Bessette	8.18	8.13	8.03								8.11
Lower Bessette	8.37	8.18	8.15								8.23
geometric Mean	8.10	8.01	8.02
mid May (freshet)
Harris	7.33	7.33	7.50	6.83	7.34	7.10	7.33	6.74	6.87	6.95	7.15
Duteau	7.24	7.42	7.69	6.78	7.51	6.75	7.88	7.06	7.76		7.33
Vance			8.25	7.87	7.98	7.96	8.22	7.82	8.09	7.92	8.03
Mid Bessette	7.28	7.48	7.73	6.99	7.61	7.37	7.67	7.32	7.60	7.26	7.45
Lower Bessette	7.33	7.50	7.77	7.07	7.65	7.43	7.70	7.45	7.61	7.38	7.50
geometric Mean	7.29	7.43	7.78	7.10	7.62	7.31	7.75	7.27	7.58	7.37
mid April
Harris	7.75	7.90	7.31								7.65
Duteau	7.72	7.90	7.32								7.64
Vance			8.05								8.05
Mid Bessette	8.03	8.10	7.63								7.92
Lower Bessette	8.10	8.16	7.74								8.00
geometric Mean	7.90	8.01	7.60

	E.coli
	*primary contact maximum 77()**
mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	g-Mean
Harris	7	20	25	10	50	50	130	57	82	23	17		30
Duteau	12	34	21	19	10	7	12	46	54	19	24		20
Vance			8	4	--	--	2	2	5	1	15		4
Mid Bessette	13	11	51	18	42	60	67	131	60	93	34		41
Lower Bessette	11	10	43	30	76	91	77	35	8	66	11		30
geometric Mean	10.5	16.5	24.7	13.3	35.5	37.2	27.7	29.9	25.4	19.3	19	#VALUE!
mid September
Harris	190	26	73										71
Duteau	78	170	180										134
Vance			11										11
Mid Bessette	210	120	120										145
Lower Bessette	89	53	64										67
geometric Mean	129.0	72.8	64.4
mid August
Harris	2100	270	230	570	580	900	1000	489	297	271	293		496
Duteau	380	190	110	240	1000	77	210	101	11200	305	82		281
Vance			29	36	240	27	96	15	59	54	56		49
Mid Bessette	290	270	140	370	710	270	560	224	639	511	107		318
Lower Bessette	250	290	150	140	240	230	340	109	115	307	74		184
geometric Mean	490.4	251.8	109.0	191.1	473.2	163.3	328.7	112.6	428.4	233.9	101	#VALUE!
mid July
Harris	80	190	1900										307
Duteau	330	310	600										394
Vance			260										260
Mid Bessette	2	150	2000										84
Lower Bessette	51	100	500										137
geometric Mean	40.5	172.4	784.1
mid May (freshet)
Harris	140	20	22	23	48	150	33	23	102	119	24	687	58
Duteau	180	29	55	82	44	80	200	52	824	33	215	210	100
Vance			1	22	4	2	1	1	<1	423	2	5	4
Mid Bessette	88	31	41	71	150	33	130	40	127	43	72	248	72
Lower Bessette	56	36	43	89	39	37	110	53	228	40	105	291	72
geometric Mean	105.6	28.4	18.4	48.3	33.9	31.1	39.4	19.0	222.1	77.8	38	139
mid April
Harris	12	24	52										25
Duteau	30	11	43										24
Vance			--										--
Mid Bessette	26	18	45										28
Lower Bessette	17	35	22										24
geometric Mean	20.0	20.2	38.6

	Turbidity NTUs

mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	g-Mean
Harris	0.7	0.7	0.7	1.8	0.6	1.1	1.7	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.8
Duteau	0.9	1.3	3.9	1.1	1.1	0.8	2.6	1.3	1.1	2.6	1.4
Vance			0.7	0.8	0.2	1.3	1.0	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.5
Mid Bessette	1.2	1.4	2.3	2.5	1.1	1.2	2.9	1.7	3.8	1.3	1.8
Lower Bessette	1.6	1.7	3.0	2.7	9.0	1.5	4.9	1.1	1.4	2.9	2.3
geometric Mean	1.0	1.2	1.7	1.6	1.0	1.0	2.3	0.8	1.0	0.9
mid September
Harris	0.8	0.8	0.9								0.8
Duteau	1.4	1.3	1.6								1.4
Vance			0.2								0.2
Mid Bessette	1.3	1.2	1.7								1.4
Lower Bessette	1.2	1.1	1.6								1.3
geometric Mean	1.1	1.1	1.0
mid August
Harris	0.8	0.7	1.3	1.4	1.4	4.7	1.1	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.3
Duteau	1.4	1.4	1.6	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.3	2.3	1.5
Vance			0.3	0.2	0.4	0.4	1.3	0.4	0.2	0.7	0.4
Mid Bessette	1.6	1.9	2.2	1.7	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.8	2.3	3.0	1.9
Lower Bessette	1.6	1.8	1.9	1.4	1.8	3.0	2.8	1.8	2.2	3.9	2.0
geometric Mean	1.3	1.4	1.2	1.0	1.3	1.7	1.6	1.2	1.1	1.8
mid July
Harris	0.9	0.8	1.5								1.0
Duteau	3.0	1.1	1.9								1.8
Vance			1.1								1.1
Mid Bessette	2.9	1.2	6.3								2.8
Lower Bessette	1.8	1.2	4.0								2.1
geometric Mean	1.9	1.1	2.4
mid May (freshet)
Harris	7.7	11.6	3.1	2.6	19.2	4.5	2.1	8.4	8.3	2.7	5.9
Duteau	8.8	4.0	3.7	4.0	4.2	3.5	2.5	3.6	2.8	6.9	3.9
Vance			2.0	4.3	274.0	59.0	7.2	195.0	9.8	7.1	21.2
Mid Bessette	19.3	20.8	4.8	6.4	46.8	13.8	4.2	35.2	15.0	6.9	13.7
Lower Bessette	40.0	39.0	8.1	11.1	84.8	20.5	6.5	52.9	25.0	6.9	23.4
geometric Mean	15.1	13.9	3.9	5.0	38.9	12.1	4.0	25.6	9.7	5.7
mid April
Harris	3.8	4.0	1.8								3.0
Duteau	3.0	2.3	3.5								2.9
Vance			3.3								3.3
Mid Bessette	8.6	4.0	3.5								4.9
Lower Bessette	11.1	7.6	5.4								7.7
geometric Mean	5.7	4.1	3.3

	Total Nitrogen mg/L
	3.0 ^() 3.0* ^(§) 3.0 ^(¥)
mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	g-Mean
Harris	0.298	0.197	0.321	!	0.202	0.219	0.255	0.161	<0.050	0.193	0.230
Duteau	0.790	0.632	0.635	0.442	0.700	1.090	0.556	0.714	0.454	0.838	0.645
Vance			0.208	0.118	<0.050	0.071	0.118	<0.050	0.094	0.050	0.114
Mid Bessette	0.614	0.571	0.563	0.294	0.400	0.463	0.383	0.435	0.347	0.723	0.440
Lower Bessette	0.564	0.518	0.494	0.300	0.479	0.492	0.383	0.414	0.322	0.759	0.432
geometric Mean	0.534	0.438	0.411	0.260	0.406	0.329	0.301	0.379	0.262	0.338
mid September
Harris	0.310	0.289	0.114								0.217
Duteau	0.674	0.841	0.480								0.648
Vance			0.064								0.064
Mid Bessette	0.527	0.393	0.296								0.394
Lower Bessette	0.458	0.343	0.246								0.338
geometric Mean	0.474	0.425	0.191
mid August
Harris	0.348	0.242	0.151	0.239	0.217	0.262	0.255	0.243	0.106	0.141	0.218
Duteau	0.583	0.453	0.460	0.462	0.557	0.864	0.556	0.640	0.429	0.471	0.543
Vance			0.127	0.117	0.156	0.556	0.118	0.092	0.079	0.050	0.141
Mid Bessette	0.506	0.469	0.444	0.333	0.598	0.616	0.383	0.390	0.337	0.269	0.443
Lower Bessette	0.349	0.506	0.253	0.274	0.295	0.433	0.383	0.337	0.268	0.402	0.336
geometric Mean	0.435	0.402	0.251	0.260	0.319	0.507	0.301	0.285	0.201	0.205
mid July
Harris	0.290	0.275	<0.050								0.282
Duteau	0.758	0.537	0.579								0.618
Vance			<0.050								<0.050
Mid Bessette	0.582	0.253	0.373								0.380
Lower Bessette	0.462	0.269	0.334								0.346
geometric Mean	0.493	0.317	0.416
mid May (freshet)
Harris	0.453	0.420	0.229	0.226	0.305	<0.050	0.298	0.304	0.386	0.326	0.318
Duteau	0.696	0.497	0.522	0.453	0.289	0.316	0.865	0.419	0.871	0.351	0.511
Vance			0.083	0.146	0.575	<0.050	0.127	0.590	0.249	0.241	0.225
Mid Bessette	0.526	0.612	0.374	0.362	0.351	0.304	0.356	0.495	0.472	0.469	0.418
Lower Bessette	0.522	0.534	0.430	0.272	0.358	0.169	0.455	0.536	0.558	0.415	0.401
geometric Mean	0.542	0.511	0.276	0.271	0.364	0.253	0.351	0.457	0.466	0.352
mid April
Harris	0.400	0.550	0.307								0.407
Duteau	0.776	0.745	0.532								0.675
Vance			0.365								0.365
Mid Bessette	0.223	0.643	0.493								0.413
Lower Bessette	0.431	0.629	0.469								0.503
geometric Mean	0.416	0.638	0.424

Date	Time	Source	O₂ mg/L	Temp °C	Entrain %	Press. hPa	Water	Disturb.	Weather	Rainfall
14-Nov-21	11:00	Harris	11.07	3.8	89.2	955			scattered showers	+ wet snow overnight
14-Nov-21	10:50	Duteau	11.54	4.2	93.8	955
14-Nov-21	10:34	Vance	11.86	4.2	96.4	955
14-Nov-21	10:21	Mid Bessette	11.64	4.0	94.2	957		beaver branches
14-Nov-21	10:06	Lower Bessette	12.15	4.0	97.6	963
14-Nov-21	09:51	Shuswap Wilsey	11.92	5.7	99.8	964
14-Nov-21	09:21	Shuswap Oddfellows	10.94	6.1	92.3	968

Date	Time	Source	O² mg/L	Temp °C	Entrain %	Press. hPa	Water	Disturb.	Weather	Rainfall
11-Aug-19	11:45	Harris	8.35	16.2	89.9	959	brown		scattered showers	at times heavy,
11-Aug-19	11:31	Duteau	8.86	16.9	96.7	959	brown
11-Aug-19	11:11	Vance	9.91	12.2	97.6	959	clear
11-Aug-19	10:56	Mid Bessette	9.27	16.9	101.1	961	brown
11-Aug-19	10:31	Lower Bessette	8.91	17.7	98.2	966	brown
11-Aug-19	10:13	Shuswap Wilsey	9.32	17.2	101.5	967	clear
11-Aug-19	09:33	Shuswap Oddfellows	8.42	17.6	92.3	970	clear

Date	Time	Source	O² mg/L	Temp °C	Entrain %	Press. hPa	Water	Disturb.	Weather	Rainfall
19-Aug-18	11:14	Harris	9.39	12.5	92.3	967			overcast, no recent precip., smokey
19-Aug-18	11:03	Duteau	9.98	13.1	99.6	967
19-Aug-18	10:48	Vance	10.76	9.4	98.5	967
19-Aug-18	10:37	Mid Bessette	10.32	12.8	101.9	969
19-Aug-18	10:22	Lower Bessette	10.54	12.9	103.8	975
19-Aug-18	10:08	Shuswap Wilsey	9.76	14.8	100.1	976
19-Aug-18	09:37	Shuswap Oddfellows	9.03	15.4	93.4	980

Date	Time	Source	O₂ mg/L	Temp ºC	Entrain %	Press. hPa	Water	Disturb.	Weather	Rainfall
14-Nov-17	10:58	Duteau	11.97	3.5	95.0	962	clear	snowmelt	cloudy, showers	showers
14-Nov-17	10:50	Harris	11.29	3.2	88.9	962	clear
14-Nov-17	10:29	Vance	12.06	3.7	96.1	962	clear
14-Nov-17	10:19	Mid Bessette	12.25	3.6	97.2	964	clear
14-Nov-17	10:03	Lower Bessette	12.69	3.2	99.1	969	muddy
14-Nov-17	09:49	Shuswap Wilsey	11.86	5.3	97.6	971	clear
14-Nov-17	09:17	Shuswap Oddfellows	10.63	6.7	90.5	973	clear, low

	Total Phosphorus mg/L

mid November	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	g-Mean
Harris	0.03	0.08	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
Duteau	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.02	0.03	0.01	0.02
Vance			0.01	0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Mid Bessette	0.04	0.02	0.05	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.06	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03
Lower Bessette	0.04	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03
geometric Mean	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02
mid September
Harris	0.04	0.04	0.03								0.04
Duteau	0.04	0.09	0.03								0.05
Vance			0.01								0.01
Mid Bessette	0.04	0.04	0.04								0.04
Lower Bessette	0.04	0.02	0.02								0.03
geometric Mean	0.04	0.04	0.02
mid August
Harris	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.02	1.00	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04
Duteau	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03
Vance			0.01	0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Mid Bessette	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.01	0.03
Lower Bessette	0.02	0.07	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.03
geometric Mean	0.03	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.06	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01
mid July
Harris	0.04	0.07	0.03								0.05
Duteau	0.05	0.04	0.04								0.04
Vance			0.01								0.01
Mid Bessette	0.04	0.02	0.08								0.04
Lower Bessette	0.04	0.04	0.05								0.04
geometric Mean	0.04	0.04	0.03
mid May (freshet)
Harris	0.05	0.08	0.04	0.03	0.09	0.04	0.03	0.30	0.07	0.03	0.06
Duteau	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.02	0.42	0.04	0.02	0.05
Vance			0.01	0.02	0.69	0.13	0.02	0.63	0.04	0.01	0.08
Mid Bessette	0.10	0.14	0.07	0.05	0.19	0.05	0.04	0.50	0.10	0.02	0.10
Lower Bessette	0.14	0.20	0.07	0.05	0.26	0.11	0.05	0.21	0.12	0.02	0.12
geometric Mean	0.08	0.10	0.04	0.03	0.15	0.06	0.03	0.38	0.07	0.02
mid April
Harris	0.04	0.08	0.04								0.05
Duteau	0.03	0.03	0.04								0.03
Vance			0.01								0.01
Mid Bessette	0.05	0.10	0.04								0.06
Lower Bessette	0.05	0.11	0.04								0.06
geometric Mean	0.04	0.07	0.03

Middle Shuswap Water Stewards

This page links to sample testing results and other items about the watershed from Sugar Lake to Mabel Lake, not including the lakes themselves.

Although Cherryville results are on this site you're visiting, The Cherryville Water Stewards have a (nice!) web site at https://www.crmc-cherryville.ca/thecherryvillewaterstewards,

CARO Reports - Upper Middle Shuswap (Cherryville)

Sampling - Nov 17, 2024

Sampling - Aug 11, 2024

Sampling - Jun 3, 2024

CARO Report: see Attachment, below

Sampling - May 12, 2024

CARO Report: see Attachment, below.

Extraordinary Sampling 2 - Apr 2, 2024

CARO Report: see Attachment, below

Extraordinary Sampling 1 - Feb 19, 2024

CARO Report: see Attachment, below

Sampling - Nov 19, 2023

Sampling - Aug 13, 2023

Sampling - May 14, 2023

Sampling - Nov 13, 2022

Sampling - Aug 14, 2022

Sampling - May 15, 2022

Sampling - Nov 14, 2021

Sampling - Aug 15, 2021

Sampling - May 16, 2021

Sampling - Nov 15, 2020

Sampling - Aug 16, 2020

Sampling - May 24, 2020

Sampling - May 26 & 27, 2019

Sampling - May 15, 2019

Sampling - Nov 18, 2018

Sampling - Aug 19, 2018

Sampling - May 27, 2018

Sampling - Nov 14, 2017

Sampling - Aug 13, 2017

Sampling - May 28, 2017

Sampling - Nov 13, 2016

Sampling - Aug 14, 2016

Sampling - May 29, 2016

Sampling - 2015

Sampling - 2014

Sampling - 2013

Sampling - 2012

Sampling - 2011

Sampling - 2010

Sampling - 2009

Sampling - 2008

CARO Reports - Lower Middle Shuswap (& Lumby)

Sampling - Nov 17, 2024

Sampling - Aug 11, 2024

Sampling - May 12, 2024

CARO Report: see Attachment, below

Sampling - Nov 19, 2023

Sampling - Aug 13, 2023

Sampling - May 14, 2023

Sampling - Nov 13, 2022

Sampling - Aug 14, 2022

Sampling - May 15, 2022

Sampling - Nov 14, 2021

Sampling - Aug 15, 2021

Sampling - May 16, 2021

Sampling - Nov 15, 2020

Sampling - Aug 16, 2020

Sampling - May 24, 2020

Sampling - Nov 17, 2019

Sampling - Aug 11, 2019

Sampling - May 26, 2019

Sampling - Nov 18, 2018

Sampling - Aug 19, 2018

Sampling - May 27, 2018

Sampling - Nov 14, 2017

Sampling - Aug 13, 2017

Sampling - May 28, 2017

Sampling - Nov 13, 2016

Sampling - Aug 14, 2016

Sampling - May 29, 2016

Sampling - Nov 15, 2015

Sampling - Sep 13, 2015

Sampling - Aug 16, 2015

Sampling - Jul 12, 2015

Sampling - May 24, 2015

Sampling - Apr 26, 2015