The Intensive Survey Branch (ISB) collects and interprets a variety of biological, chemical, and physical data that are incorporated in the DWR basinwide planning concept. ISB monitoring programs include the Ambient Lake Monitoring Program, Lake TMDL Studies, and other Special Studies/Intensive Surveys as requested and as resources allow.
Specific monitoring activities include:
• Ambient Lakes Monitoring
• Chemical sampling in water or sediment
• Physical measurements (temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity)
• Flow/velocity/time-of-travel measurement
• Sediment oxygen demand and nutrient flux
• Channel morphology and lake bathymetry measurement
• Remote sampling
Standard Operating Procedures
Physical and Chemical Monitoring SOP
Lakes Monitoring Quality Assurance Project Plan
Highlighted Studies, Reports and Data
Identification of Select Emerging Compounds in Public Water Supply Reservoirs of the Neuse River Basin: July 2021
Study Plan for the Identification of Select Emerging Contaminants at Surface Water Intakes in Three North Carolina River Basins
Study Plan for the Identification of Emerging Contaminants in Jordan Lake and its Watershed
Study Plan for the Identification of Emerging Contaminants in Falls Lake and its Watershed
Jordan Lake Algaecide and Phosphorous-Locking Treatment Study
2017 White Lake Water Quality Investigation
Staff Contacts
Branch Number 919.743.8403
Water Sciences Section 1621 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1621
Vacant
Craig Hoover
NC Lakes Monitoring Program Coordinator
919.743.8413
Robert Langley
Env. Specialist I
919.743.8415
Joe Mohn
Env. Specialist I
919.743.8421
Env. Specialist I
Jill Tucker
Env. Technician
919.743.8430
919.743.8400