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


Site 4 - Little Delaware River near Delhi - WBDLDELA - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.259438
Longitude(dd): -74.928044
Watershed Area: 135.4 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.01% 31.10% 68.18% 0.71% 0.73%
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1990
2000

Total Population

834
951
Population Density (ind./km2)
6.16
7.02
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
0
0
0
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0 cm
0 cm
0 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
06SEP00
0.4547
06SEP00
0.4547
2001
08AUG01
0.2011
08AUG01
0.2011
2002
13JUN02
3.1271
13JUN02
3.1271

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8.9   8.6   8  
ALKL 29   28   20  
COND 85   106   69  
CA 9.7   .   .  
MG 2.3   2.2   1.7  
NA 5.4   6.6   3.3  
K 0.9   1.1   0.5  
CL 6   9.8   3.7  
SO4 6.5   6.6   5.4  
NH4N 0.016   0.02   0.016  
NO3N 0.09   0.06   0.2  
ORGN 0.06   0.1   0.1  
SKN 0.07 B 0.1   0.2  
TKN 0.2   0.2   0.2  
SRP 0.012   0.009   0.011  
TDP 0.014   0.015   0.011  
TP 0.018   0.019   0.016  
DOC 1733   1496   2133  
BDOC .   360   390  
TSS 0.8 B 2.3   3.6  
TSS05 0.6 B 2.2   2.5  
TSS10 0.015 B 0.2   0.5  
TSS20 0.1   0.5   1.4  
VSS 0.4   0.9   1.1  
VSS05 0.4   0.8   0.7  
VSS10 0.0017 B 0.07   0.1  
VSS20 0.04   0.1   0.4  

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
25JUL00
0.5386
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2001
08AUG01
0.2011
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2002
10JUN02
3.7178
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2003    
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Data Table - Methodology
  2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL
FLU 0.0008 E .   0.0004 HE .   0.0011 E .  
PHE 0.006 E .   0.0011 HE .   0.003 E .  
ANT 0.0012 E .   0.00014 HE .   0.0007 E .  
2MP 0.011 E .   0.0005 HE .   0.002 E .  
1MP 0.0005 E .   0.00013 HE .   0.012 E .  
FLR 0.003 E .   0.0008 HE .   0.003 E .  
PYR 0.0013 E .   0.0004 HE .   0.0014 E .  
BAA 0.007 E .   0.005   .   0.0008 E .  
CHR 0.005 E .   0.0004 HE .   0.0008 E .  
BBF 0.0005 E .   0.00018 HE .   0.0011 E .  
BKF 0.0004 E .   0.0002 HE .   0.0011 E .  
BAP 0.0004 E .   0.016   .   0.0015 E .  
HHCB 0.009   .   0.0018 HE .   0.005 E .  
AHTN 0.01 E .   0.003 HE .   0.006 E .  
CAF 0.01 E .   0.0008 HE .   0.014   .  
bCOP 0.03 E .   0.008 HE .   0.03   .  
EPI 0.007 E .   0.0019 HE .   0.008   .  
CHO 0.8 E .   0.6   .   0.3   .  
aCOP 0.2 E .   0.1   .   0.1   .  
aONE 0.01 E .   0.02   .   0.005 E .  
bONE 0.05 E .   0.014   .   0.05 E .  
SNOL 0.08 E .   0.02   .   0.06   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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