ASTM D6146-97 - 10.6.1997
 
1. Scope

1.1 Purpose- This guide is intended to provide general guidance on a watershed monitoring program directed toward the plant nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. The guide offers a series of general steps without setting forth a specific course of action. It gives assistance for developing a monitoring program but not a program for implementing measures to improve water quality.

 
2. Referenced Documents

D6145-97(2018)

Standard Guide for Monitoring Sediment in Watersheds

D5851-95(2021)

Standard Guide for Planning and Implementing a Water Monitoring Program

D5092-04

Standard Practice for Design and Installation of Ground Water Monitoring Wells in Aquifers

D4700-15

Standard Guide for Soil Sampling from the Vadose Zone (Withdrawn 2024)

D4410-25

Standard Terminology for Fluvial Sediment

D3867-16(2021)e1

Standard Test Methods for Nitrite-Nitrate in Water (Includes all amendments and changes 12/23/2021).

D3858-95(1999)

Standard Test Method for Open-Channel Flow Measurement of Water by Velocity-Area Method

D3856-11

Standard Guide for Management Systems in Laboratories Engaged in Analysis of Water

D3370-25

Standard Practices for Sampling Water from Flowing Process Streams

D3590-17(2025)

Standard Test Methods for Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen in Water

D1739-98(2026)

Standard Test Method for Collection and Measurement of Dustfall (Settleable Particulate Matter)

D1426-15(2021)e1

Standard Test Methods for Ammonia Nitrogen In Water (Includes all amendments and changes 12/22/2021).

D1357-26

Standard Practice for Planning the Sampling of the Ambient Atmosphere

D1129-24

Standard Terminology Relating to Water

D653-26a

Standard Terminology Relating to Soil, Rock, and Contained Fluids (Includes all amendments and changes 6/15/2026).

D4696-18

Standard Guide for Pore-Liquid Sampling from the Vadose Zone

D4448-01(2019)

Standard Guide for Sampling Ground-Water Monitoring Wells

D515-88

Test Methods for Phosphorus in Water (Withdrawn 1997)