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


Site 9- Trout Creek near Trout Creek- WBDTROUT - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.173769
Longitude(dd): -75.279433
Watershed Area: 53.3 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.61% 48.50% 48.53% 2.36% 1.21%
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1990
2000

Total Population

523
579
Population Density (ind./km2)
9.81
10.87
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
1
1
1
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.01 cm
0.01 cm
0.01 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
0.1789
06SEP00
0.1789
2001
09AUG01
0.0726
09AUG01
0.0726
2002
14JUN02
1.1565
27JUN02
0.8559

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.5   6.6   7.1  
ALKL 20   21   21  
COND 89   110   88  
CA 7.9   .   .  
MG 2.7   2.9   2.2  
NA 6.8   6.9   6.5  
K 1   1.2   0.9  
CL 12   15   8.6  
SO4 8.4   8   7.4  
NH4N 0.007 B 0.016   0.011  
NO3N 0.4   0.5   0.3  
ORGN 0.04   0.05   0.1  
SKN 0.04 B 0.07   0.1  
TKN 0.08 B 0.1   0.2  
SRP 0.004   0 B 0.008  
TDP 0.004 B 0.005 B 0.01  
TP 0.008 B 0.008 B 0.016  
DOC 891   769   2285  
BDOC .   204   446  
TSS 0.4 B 1.2   2.5  
TSS05 0.3 B 1.7   1.6  
TSS10 0.03 B 0.1 B 0.6  
TSS20 0.09   0.2 B 0.8  
VSS 0.3 B 0.4   0.9  
VSS05 0.2 B 0.6   0.6  
VSS10 0.011 B 0.04 B 0.1  
VSS20 0.03   0.08 B 0.2  

 

 

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
0.2120
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2001
08AUG01
0.0791
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2002
10JUN02
1.4630
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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 0.0003 HE .   0.0009 HE .   0.0007 E .  
PHE 0.0019   .   0.003 HE .   0.003 E .  
ANT 0.0003 HE .   0.0011 HE .   0.0003 E .  
2MP 0.0012 HE .   0.002 HE .   0.004 E .  
1MP 0.00008 HE .   0.0006 HE .   0.005 E .  
FLR 0.0008 HE .   0.003 HE .   0.002 E .  
PYR 0.0003 HE .   0.002 HE .   0.0012 E .  
BAA 0.0019 HE .   0.0007 E .   0.0008 E .  
CHR 0.00017 HE .   0.0005 E .   0.001 E .  
BBF 0.0006 HE .   0.0016 HE .   0.0016 E .  
BKF 0.0004 HE .   0.0014 HE .   0.0014 E .  
BAP 0.0009 HE .   0.0018 HE .   0.0008 E .  
HHCB 0.0018 HE .   0.004 HE .   0.006 E .  
AHTN 0.004 HE .   0.005 HE .   0.007 E .  
CAF 0.0004 E .   0.0006 E .   0.007   .  
bCOP 0.08 HE .   0.012 HE .   0.05   .  
EPI 0.02 HE .   0.003 HE .   0.014   .  
CHO 1.1 HE .   0.6 HE .   0.4   .  
aCOP 0.3 HE .   0.09 HE .   0.1   .  
aONE 0.06 HE .   0.009 HE .   0.02   .  
bONE 0.1 HE .   0.015 HE .   0.06   .  
SNOL 0.2 HE .   0.03 HE .   0.1   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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