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


Site 6 - West Branch Delaware River at Hawleys- WBDHAWLY - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.175484
Longitude(dd): -74.01290
Watershed Area: 663.9 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.35% 42.45% 56.46% 0.74% 1.10%
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1990
2000

Total Population

10749
10720
Population Density (ind./km2)
16.19
16.15
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
6
6
6
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.20 cm
0.14 cm
0.18 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
2.2297
06SEP00
2.2297
2001
09AUG01
0.9042
09AUG01
0.9042
2002
12JUN02
16.5656
12JUN02
16.5656

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8.6   7.6   7.1  
ALKL 33   34   23  
COND 117   145   92  
CA 12   .   .  
MG 2.7   3   2  
NA 8.5   10   5.3  
K 1.2   1.4   0.8  
CL 13   17   6.9  
SO4 9   8.9   6.1  
NH4N 0.011   0.02   0.014  
NO3N 0.7   0.3   0.4  
ORGN 0.1   0.1   0.2  
SKN 0.1   0.2   0.2  
TKN 0.1   0.3   0.3  
SRP 0.03   0.01   0.016  
TDP 0.04   0.017   0.017  
TP 0.04   0.03   0.03  
DOC 1867   1726   2271  
BDOC .   314   429  
TSS 0.7 B 6   7.5  
TSS05 0.6 B 4.3   3.4  
TSS10 0.03 B 0.7   1.2  
TSS20 0.1   0.9   2.7  
VSS 0.3 B 1.6   1.8  
VSS05 0.2 B 1.1   1.1  
VSS10 0.013 B 0.1   0.2  
VSS20 0.02   0.1   0.5  

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
2.6413
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2001
08AUG01
0.9861
07FEB01
6.5144
2002
10JUN02
18.2307
05FEB02
22.7689
2003    
14Jan03
10.6050

Data Table - Methodology
  2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL
FLU 0.0018 E 0.0008 HE 0.0012 HE 0.002 E 0.003 E 0.019 E
PHE 0.007   0.003   0.003 HE 0.003 E 0.006 E 0.03  
ANT 0.0012 E 0.003 HE 0.001 HE 0.0005 E 0.0004 E 0.03  
2MP 0.005 E 0.004 HE 0.004 HE 0.002 E 0.002 E 0.017 E
1MP 0.0013 E 0.0003 HE 0.006 HE 0.0003 E 0.007 E 0.011 E
FLR 0.006   0.002   0.003 HE 0.002 E 0.005 E 0.011 E
PYR 0.005 E 0.0014 HE 0.0014 HE 0.0017 E 0.004 E 0.008 E
BAA 0.004 E 0 NE 0.0007 HE 0.0013 E 0.002 E 0.007 E
CHR 0.0016 E 0.0006 HE 0.0004 HE 0.0012 E 0.0019 E 0.006 E
BBF 0.00018 E 0.0005 HE 0.0012 HE 0.0013 E 0.002 E 0.007 E
BKF 0.00013 E 0.0005 HE 0.0011 HE 0.0012 E 0.004 E 0.004 E
BAP 0.002 E 0.0002 HE 0.0007 HE 0.0013 E 0.003 E 0.007 E
HHCB 0.03   0.013   0.007 HE 0.009 E 0.013   0.01  
AHTN 0.014   0.008   0.004 HE 0.004 E 0.014 E 0.012 E
CAF 0.04 E 0.05   0.015 HE 0.015 E 0.02   0.007  
bCOP 0.2 E 0.1   0.04   0.1 E 0.1   0.03  
EPI 0.019 E 0.007   0.003 HE 0.013 E 0.017 E 0.015  
CHO 0.6 E 0.3   0.7   0.2 E 0.7   0.2  
aCOP 0.1 E 0.04   0.1   0.05 E 0.2   0.06  
aONE 0.05 E 0.005 HE 0.03   0.006 E 0.01   0 NE
bONE 0.1 E 0.04   0.03   0.04 E 0.1   0.04 E
SNOL 0.05 E 0.04   0.02   0.08 E 0.07   0.06  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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