Stream Hydrology
Trott Brook
| Monitoring Location | at Highway 63, Burns Township STORET SiteID = FordBrook_Hwy63 |
| Monitored By | ACD Staff |
| Notes
Trott Brook is a medium-large creek that flows south through Sherburne County, paralleling the Anoka-Sherburne County boundary before turning east through the City of Ramsey where outlets to the Rum River. It does not inlet or outlet to any lakes. Overall, the watershed is rural or suburban residential. The creek is about 25 feet wide and 2.5 feet deep at the monitoring site during baseflow. In 2006 the difference between the highest and lowest water levels on Trott Brook was 2.02 feet. Most of the variation occurred in spring, particularly in response to a 1.41-inch rainfall on April 29. There was little variation the remainder of the year, when moderate drought conditions developed. Soil moisture was low and the rainfalls that did occur resulted in little response from creeks. In 2005 the difference between the highest and lowest water levels on Trott Brook was 2.78 feet, nearly identical to its similarly-sized tributary, Ford Brook. There were 3 isolated large rain events which could be analyzed for stream response. During those events, the stream rose an average of 0.86 feet per inch of rainfall received. In 2004 the average for large storms was a 0.55 foot increase in stream level per inch of rain received. In 2004 a professional paper was published in the Journal Environmental Science and Technology that relied upon hydrology data from this site. The paper on methylmercury, the form of mercury that causes fish consumption advisories, was authored by a staff person from the Metropolitan Council, and others.
|
|
|
|
*Note: Not all monitored years are listed. Please refer to mapping utility for complete data. |
|
< PREVIOUS: Seelye Brook | NEXT: Ditch 58 >
