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


Site 10 - East Branch Delaware near Arkville - EBDARKVL - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.169880
Longitude(dd): -74.611514
Watershed Area: 181.6 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.18% 30.29% 69.31% 0.21% 0.95%
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1990
2000

Total Population

1848
2160
Population Density (ind./km2)
10.18
11.89
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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
01AUG00
1.2223
01AUG00
1.2223
2001
25JUL01
0.3643
25JUL01
0.3643
2002
26JUN02
2.0226
26JUN02
2.0226

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.9   7.7   7.8  
ALKL 28   33   25  
COND 97   118   89  
CA 10   .   .  
MG 1.6   1.9   1.5  
NA 5.7   7.7   5.1  
K 0.6   0.8   0.5  
CL 7.5   11   6.1  
SO4 6.1   6.4   6  
NH4N 0.016   0.017   0.019  
NO3N 0.2   0.06   0.1  
ORGN 0.1   0.1   0.1  
SKN 0.1   0.1   0.1  
TKN 0.2   0.2   0.2  
SRP 0.02   0.014   0.015  
TDP 0.02   0.02   0.019  
TP 0.03   0.03   0.03  
DOC 1997   2208   2257  
BDOC .   632   675  
TSS 3.7   1.9   5.3  
TSS05 3.2   1.8   3.9  
TSS10 0.4   0.2   0.8  
TSS20 0.1   0.3 B 0.7  
VSS 1.9   0.8   1.6  
VSS05 1.7   0.8   1.3  
VSS10 0.09   0.07   0.1  
VSS20 0.04   0.1 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
24JUL00
1.2526
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2001
25JUL01
0.3643
08FEB01
1.8123
2002
24JUN02
2.6870
04FEB02
7.2910
2003    
15JAN03
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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 0.002 E 0.002 HE 0.0018 E 0.001 E 0.003 E 0.0007 E
PHE 0.007   0.005 HE 0.007 E 0.003 E 0.007 E 0.005 E
ANT 0.0011 E 0.005   0.0018 E 0.0013 E 0.0008 E 0.003 E
2MP 0.006 E 0.002 HE 0.018 E 0.0018 E 0.002 E 0.004 E
1MP 0.003 E 0.0006 HE 0.009 E 0.0007 E 0.0007 E 0.002 E
FLR 0.006   0.003 HE 0.012 E 0.002 E 0.008 E 0.004 E
PYR 0.004   0.0015   0.04 E 0.002 E 0.004 E 0.003 E
BAA 0.006 E 0.0003 HE 0.0017 E 0.0015 E 0.002 E 0.003 E
CHR 0.002 E 0.0009 HE 0.0015 E 0.0012 E 0.003 E 0.002 E
BBF 0.002   0.0004 HE 0.001 E 0.0018 E 0.003 E 0.002 E
BKF 0.002 E 0.0003 HE 0.0005 E 0.0018 E 0.003 E 0.0019 E
BAP 0.004   0 NE 0.0005 E 0.0017 E 0.003 E 0.003 E
HHCB 0.011   0.008   0.003 E 0.001 E 0.007 E 0.004 E
AHTN 0.004 E 0.03 HE 0.006 E 0.003 E 0.011 E 0.01 E
CAF 0.009 E 0.006 HE 0.012 E 0.01   0.014 E 0.009 E
bCOP 0.08 E 0.02   0.018   0.03   0.04   0.016 E
EPI 0.04 E 0.005   0.004   0.006 E 0.014   0.008  
CHO 3 E 0.2   0.4 E 0.2   2.1   0.2  
aCOP 0.3 E 0.05 HE 0.04 E 0.06   0.2   0.05  
aONE 0.1 E 0.008 HE 0.016   0.008   0.03   0.02 E
bONE 0.1 E 0.03   0.03   0.04   0.07   0.03  
SNOL 0.2 E 0.06   0.018 E 0.09   0.1   0.04  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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