Metropolitan Council Environmental Services water quality site: MI 3.5 Site description: Minnesota River near confluence with Mississippi River (near Fort Snelling) Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC): 07020012 Site UTM N: 4968279 Site UTM E: 484859 UTM zone: 15 Drainage area at water quality site: 16,846 mi2 Sampling frequency: weekly (NH3_N); biweekly (NO2_N, NO3_N, TP_P); monthly (SRP_P, TKN); quarterly (Cl) Flow station: 05330000 (USGS daily flows) Station description: Minnesota River at Jordan, MN Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC): 07020012 Station UTM N: 4948837 Station UTM E: 449156 UTM zone: 15 Drainage area at flow station: 16,200 mi2 Period of record: 10/01/1934-09/30/1997 Flow conversion: 1.0399 x (flow at 05330000) = estimated flow at MI 3.5 The following constituent values were removed from analysis as possible outliers, or are below detection limits: none Additional comments: none Loads for this site were estimated with LOADEST2 version 1.101