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Equipment List for Water Sampling in the Fens

  • The yellow Mt. Bethel Fens Toolbox
  • Including the Hobo data logger cables, Hobo data shuttle, Data card for the gauging station, screwdrivers, field note book, pen
  • Sync the shuttle to UTC time before leaving Lehigh
  • Lumbar pack with tools
  • The Mount Bethel Fens Binder, Fens maps
  • LEO magnetic car signs
  • A First Aid kit
  • Cellular phone, leave the phone number with LEO Manager, Margie Barry
  • Safety Glasses
  • Cotton work gloves
  • Tecnu
  • Bug repellant and sunscreen
  • Rubber boots, and a garbage bag to put them inside the car
  • Digital Camera (make sure LEO floppy is returned with camera)
  • The bailer, and a bag to keep the rope inside
  • Carboy filled with deionized water
  • Squeeze bottles to rinse the bailer
  • Well height indicator, or metric measuring tape, Kolorkut and a rag
  • Data sheets (Hard copy)
  • Sample bags
  • Rubber gloves
  • Garbage bag to dispose of contaminated gloves
  • Cooler with ice
  • pH meter
  • Six 1 liter bottles filled with deionized water (bottles must have been acid washed)
  • Seven 1 liter bottles to take samples of water back to the lab, plus a few more bottle just in case of error.
    Fourteen 125 mL bottles to take samples of water for pH and conductivity (You will use 6 bottles to hold sample water before bailing and 6 bottles to hold sample water after bailing.)
    *make sure the bottles are previously labeled to avoid confusion and error in the field

    Fens:
  • 1. Savadge Fen #1
  • 2. Savadge Pit
  • 3. Bartlette Fen
  • 4. Taylor Shrub Fen
  • 5. Taylor Seep
  • 6. Taylor Fen

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