Water Quality Buoy Observations : Pelekane Bay, Hawaiʻi Island
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NOTE: This instrument does not report in real-time. New data are retrieved periodically.
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Disclaimer: Near real-time data have not been quality controlled.
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This water quality buoy (wqb_05) is located in Pelekane Bay approximately 0.5 mile (0.8 km) south of Kawaihae Harbor in the South Kohala district of the leeward (western) coast of Hawaiʻi Island (Big Island) in the State of Hawaiʻi. It is moored in waters 16 feet (5.0 m) deep. Data are recorded every 30 minutes (every 15 minutes prior to May 2, 2023) and transmitted hourly. Water quality buoys monitor coastal water conditions to help provide early indications of potentially polluted run-off from storm drainage, sewage spills, and soil erosion from land-based waterways such as streams and other outflows that lead directly into the ocean. Owned and maintained by PacIOOS under the supervision of Dr. Steven Colbert and lab.
Instrument site. Credit: PacIOOS/James Terhune.
