Long Term Resource Monitoring Program water quality site: VM00.1M
Site description: Vermillion River near confluence with Mississippi River
Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC): 07040001
Site UTM N: 4938817
Site UTM E: 532303
UTM zone: 15 
Drainage area at water quality site: 261 mi2
Sampling frequency: biweekly
   
Flow station: 05345000 (USGS daily flows)
Station description: Vermillion River near Empire, MN  
Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC): 07040001
Station UTM N: 4945707
Station UTM E: 495662
UTM zone: 15
Drainage area at flow station: 110 mi2
Period of record: 10/01/1973-09/30/1997
Flow conversion:
2.373 x (flow at 05345000) = estimated flow at VM00.1M

The following constituent values were removed from analysis as
possible outliers, or are below detection limits: none

Additional comments:
A few side channels of the Mississippi River flow into the Vermillion River 
upstream from water quality site VM00.1M.  According to staff at the Lake City
Field Station, there is very limited flow from the Mississippi River into the 
Vermillion River during normal flows.  During high flows, the side channels of 
the Mississippi River substantially increase the flow of the Vermillion River
at water quality site VM00.1M.  Additional flow contributed by Mississippi River side
channels to the Vermillion River is not accounted for in the flow values used for 
calculating loads.  Thus, loads are calculated as if the Mississippi River contributes 
no flow to the Vermillion River.  Loads generated under this assumption may
not represent the loads that are delivered by the Vermillion River during high
flow periods.  

Loads for this site were estimated with LOADEST2 version 1.10