{"id":4210,"date":"2020-10-06T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?page_id=4210"},"modified":"2021-01-05T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:48:30","slug":"ec-mass-balance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/ec-salt\/ec-mass-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Mass Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept is to use the EC values of two streams converging into one to estimate the relative flows of those two streams using a simple mass balance approach (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cof.orst.edu\/cof\/fe\/watershd\/fe537\/papers\/seven.pdf\">Pinder &amp; Jones 1969<\/a>)*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4217\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mass-balance-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4217\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mass-balance-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mass-balance-1.jpg 860w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mass-balance-1-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mass-balance-1-768x835.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two streams, S1 and S2 (EC values 400 and 100 uS\/cm) converge to form stream S3 (EC 125 uS\/cm). &#8220;p&#8221; is the relative proportion of\u00a0 S1 in the water flow at S3; (p-1) is the relative proportion of S2.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>*A keystone paper by noted US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/gund\/profiles\/george-pinder\">hydrologist GF Pinder<\/a>, with\u00a0 Nova Scotian John F. Jones, the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/natr\/meb\/data\/pubs\/tgr\/tgrv4n1.pdf\">Grandfather of Groundwater in Nova Scotia<\/a>&#8221; as co-author and based on work in NS.(Canadian born Pinder&#8217;s first professional job was with the NS Dept of Mines, in 1968. Then the Yanks scooped him up, view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Gund-Institute-for-Environment\/George%20Pinder%20CV.pdf\">cv<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept is to use the EC values of two streams converging into one to estimate the relative flows of those two streams using a simple mass balance approach (see Pinder &amp; Jones 1969)* &nbsp; *A keystone paper by noted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/waters\/streams-wetlands\/ec-salt\/ec-mass-balance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5211,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4210\/revisions\/4226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}