RMP.5:5.2 - Downstream salinity without the reference reach

The citizen team’s RMP.3 specification required paired reference and downstream readings during a thaw. Its RMP.4 trace shows valid downstream measurements and records that access to the reference reach failed. The thaw period has ended.

Analyze the downstream change under the qualified measurement Method. Keep repeated readings tied to their sites and times. The data can support the bounded downstream pattern; they do not supply the absent paired contrast needed to attribute that pattern to the proposed outfall rather than the live hydrological rivals. A longer methods section cannot restore the contrast.

Return the observed pattern and the unresolved attribution. Later authorized matched observations may justify a useful study of a new period. Their result cannot recreate the lost reference observations from this thaw.