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Water Quality Monitoring in the Source Water Areas for NYC
PHASE I Monitoring Sites


Site 2 - Town Brook near Hobart - WBDTWNBK - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.368793
Longitude(dd): -74.676987
Watershed Area: 41.4 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.09% 54.25% 45.53% 0.13% 0.50%
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1990
2000

Total Population

426
394
Population Density (ind./km2)
10.29
9.53
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
0
0
0
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.00 cm
0.00 cm
0.00 cm

Ions, Nutrients, DOC/BDOC, and Particulates - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharge (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Ions/Nutr & DOC/BDOC
Organic Particles
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
07SEP00
0.1247
07SEP00
0.1247
2001
19SEP01
0.0333
19SEP01
0.0333
2002
13JUN02
0.9560
13JUN02
0.9560

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8.2   7.8   7.3  
ALKL 31   39   24  
COND 95   139   82  
CA 11   .   .  
MG 2.1   2.8   1.7  
NA 3.4   6   9  
K 1.3   2   1  
CL 3.5   8.3   4.6  
SO4 6.6   9.1   5.3  
NH4N 0.009 B 0.01   0.004 B
NO3N 0.3   1.2   0.5  
ORGN 0.2   0.1   0.2  
SKN 0.2   0.1   0.2  
TKN 0.3   0.2   0.3  
SRP 0.015   0.03   0.019  
TDP 0.018   0.03   0.02  
TP 0.02   0.04   0.03  
DOC 2357   1443   3068  
BDOC .   251   355  
TSS 0.7 B 1.5   3.2  
TSS05 0.5 B 0.8   2  
TSS10 0.05 B 0.3   0.4  
TSS20 0.1   0.6   1.3  
VSS 0.4   0.6   0.9  
VSS05 0.3 B 0.4 B 0.6  
VSS10 0.04 B 0.07   0.08  
VSS20 0.04   0.1   0.3  

Molecular Tracer Analysis - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharges (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Summer Baseflow
Winter Baseflow
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
11OCT00
0.2095
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2001
19SEP01
0.0333
07FEB01
0.4061
2002
10JUN02
1.1366
04FEB02
1.7878
2003    
14JAN03
0.6612

Data Table - Methodology
  2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL
FLU 0 NE 0.0006 HE 0.0006 E 0.008 E 0.001 E 0.012 E
PHE 0 NE 0.002 HE 0.0012 E 0.015 E 0.007 E 0.017  
ANT 0.0014 E 0.0005 HE 0.0006 E 0.003 E 0.0011 E 0.009 E
2MP 0.004 E 0.005 HE 0.003 E 0.005 E 0.004 E 0.013 E
1MP 0 NE 0.0003 HE 0.0005 E 0.0011 E 0.0017 E 0.01 E
FLR 0.002 E 0.002 HE 0.0009 E 0.003 E 0.007 E 0.01 E
PYR 0 NE 0.0017   0.0004 E 0.003 E 0.006 E 0.008 E
BAA 0.0002 E 0.0009 HE 0.0002 E 0.0013 E 0.005 E 0.008 E
CHR 0.0003 E 0.001 HE 0.0003 E 0.0011 E 0.004 E 0.006 E
BBF 0 NE 0.0006 HE 0.0007 E 0.0013 E 0.0008 E 0.006 E
BKF 0 NE 0.0006 HE 0.00019 E 0.0014 E 0.002 E 0.004 E
BAP 0.0004 E 0.0006   0.0004 E 0.0011 E 0.004 E 0.006 E
HHCB 0.003   0.004   0.0009 E 0.05   0.008 E 0.009 E
AHTN 0.0013 E 0.017 HE 0.005 E 0.004 E 0.04 E 0.03 E
CAF 0 NE 0.01   0.06 E 0.007 E 0.008   0.009  
bCOP 0.1   0.07   0.015 E 0.1   0.004 E 0.03  
EPI 0.02   0.018   0.005   0.06   0.02   0.013  
CHO 0.3   0.2   0.5   0.2   0.5   0.3  
aCOP 0.1 E 0.08   0.07   0.09   0.2   0.04  
aONE 0.005 E 0.005 HE 0.015   0.009 E 0.03 E 0 NE
bONE 0.07   0.04   0.02 E 0.06   0.07   0.05  
SNOL 0.1   0.1   0.05   0.1   0.1   0.08  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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