WaterQualityWatch -- Continuous Real-Time Water Quality of Surface Water in the United States

Real-Time Nitrate, in mg/L as N

Map of , showing which states provide real-time computed water-quality data
03338780 03339000 05554300 03336890 05559900 03378500 05567500 05537980 05446500 03346500 05576195 05447500 05465500 05576100 05586300 05553700 05543010 05420400 05599490 03612600 05595000 07020850 05568705 03381500 Explanation

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No values are available for the last 6 hours.

The nitrate measurement is actually nitrate plus nitrite. Nitrite absorbs strongly at wavelengths similar to nitrate, and is not explicitly accounted for in the nitrate calculations by the sensors. For practical purposes, the concentration of nitrite is usually negligible in surface waters and has little effect on reported nitrate concentrations.

The "Real-time" map tracks short-term changes (over several hours) of water quality. Although the general appearance of the map changes very little from one hour to the next, individual sites may change rapidly in response to major rain events or to reservoir releases. The data used to produce this map are provisional.