Assess Turbidity in Water
turbidity

As explained [in @donblair's primer](/notes/donblair/08-25-2015/turbidity-001), measuring turbidity means "measuring the amount of suspended solids in water -- solids that haven't fully dissolved". That is, "turbidity, an optical technique for assessing suspended solids in liquid -- is an important water quality parameter. Typically, light is shone into a liquid sample, and the amount of light scattered back out of the sample (off of particles suspended in it) is measured; the intensity of this scattered light is considered to be related to the amount of suspended solids in the sample." ([reference](/wiki/turbidity_sensing)) _image credit: https://castlebrookestreamstudy.weebly.com/_ This page needs help! * Info about regulations * Info about ecological or human health impacts * Advocacy leverage points * Constraints we're working within: cost, complexity, sensitivity, time There are a LOT of resources available on these pages by @donblair and others: * https://publiclab.org/notes/donblair/08-25-2015/turbidity-001 * https://publiclab.org/wiki/turbidity_sensing **** ## Questions [questions:turbidity] **** ## Sensors Here's a list of different turbidity sensors and measurement systems. See below for some Do-It-Yourself approaches to measuring turbidity, and [this page](https://publiclab.org/wiki/turbidity_sensing) for more information on how turbidity sensors works. * Kelley et al., An Affordable Open Source Turbidimeter http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/4/7142/pdf * Hackteria.org, Turbiduino: http://hackteria.org/wiki/DIY_turbidity_meters * Lambrou et al., A Nephelometric Turbidity System for Monitoring Residential Drinking Water Quality: http://www2.ucy.ac.cy/~faniseng/publications/SENSAPPEAL09.pdf - Fondriest review: http://www.fondriest.com/environmental-measurements/equipment/measuring-water-quality/turbidity-sensors-meters-and-methods/ - Hach overview: http://www.hach.com/asset-get.download-en.jsa?code=61798 (see [Water sensors](https://publiclab.org/wiki/water-sensors) for more, and [click here to add to this table](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UwjRqU8kHTwEcnDdO2Zxkr8zkFkaGfyePJ-cdnxJzw0/edit#gid=28737041)) **** ## Activities Activities for people to test methods (these develop over time) [activities:turbidity] **** ## Existing work [notes:turbidity] ...


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liz "Have you thought at all about whether you are aiming to go directly to procuring lab data of baseline water quality that lab scientists will testif..." | Read more » almost 3 years ago
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MarketingWeb "Excellent article. I'm starting to look for information about the quality of the water we drink and your article helped me a lot. Thanks. " | Read more » almost 3 years ago
louiseb90 "It's great work. Useful for many countries that want to know the quality of their water. Thanks for this article. " | Read more » over 3 years ago
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Sholihul "Where for buy container to turbidity? " | Read more » about 4 years ago
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joyofsoy "@mmbaustian did exactly this in Barataria Basin! Curious to know the answer from Hoon — Cyndhia R. (@CoastalRedwoods) February 5, 2020 " | Read more » about 4 years ago
joyofsoy "Perhaps if you collect both secchi and turbidity data frequently over a long time period at different sites and plot all the data, you could identi..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
joyofsoy "Maybe you could make a daily calibration curve?— Diana R. Di Leonardo (@SwirlingSands) February 5, 2020 " | Read more » about 4 years ago
joyofsoy "You could maybe make one for a specific site but I'd want to test it over a long time period before using it.— Diana R. Di Leonardo (@SwirlingSands..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
joyofsoy "And if you were to come up with a conversion factor, I imagine it would probably be very site and time specific, it wouldn’t be a value you could a..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
joyofsoy "We shared this question on our social media and received these responses From my understanding, secchi disks are a measure of light penetration de..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
Tarek_Omar "The digital sensor tell the turbidity by measuring how much of a known light intensity reaches its light sensor in a known amount of liquid and its..." | Read more » about 4 years ago
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