Long Term Resource Monitoring Program water quality site: RO00.1M Site description: Root River near confluence with Mississippi River Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC): 07040008 Site UTM N: 4846727 Site UTM E: 640647 UTM zone: 15 Drainage area at water quality site: 1,660 mi2 Sampling frequency: biweekly Flow station: 05385000 (USGS daily flows) Station description: Root River near Houston, MN Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC): 07040008 Station UTM N: 4846952 Station UTM E: 615120 UTM zone: 15 Drainage area at flow station: 1,270 mi2 Period of record: 05/01/1929-11/22/1983 and 10/01/1990-09/30/1997 Flow conversion: 1.307 x (flow at 05385000) = estimated flow at RO00.1M The following constituent values were removed from analysis as possible outliers, or are below detection limits: Date Constituent Concentration 07/24/1991 Chloride 90.000 08/21/1991 Chloride 38.000 Additional comments: none Loads for this site were estimated with LOADEST2 version 1.10