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


Site 13 - East Branch Delaware River near Dunraven - EBDDUNRN - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.123772
Longitude(dd): -74.674938
Watershed Area: 448.2 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.07% 19.06% 80.64% 0.23% 0.74%
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1990
2000

Total Population

4644
5242
Population Density (ind./km2)
10.36
11.70
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
3
3
3
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.06 cm
0.05 cm
0.06 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
1.7662
24JUL00
3.0921
2001
10JUL01
2.2872
12JUL01
1.9329
2002
11JUN02
12.2258
11JUN02
12.2258

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.6   7.2   7.3  
ALKL 23   23   15  
COND 86   92   60  
CA 8.3   .   .  
MG 1.5   1.6   1.2  
NA 5.2   5.8   3.2  
K 0.6   0.7   0.4 B
CL 7   9.5   3.9  
SO4 7.4   6   5  
NH4N 0.007 B 0.011   0.007 B
NO3N 0.1   0.2   0.1  
ORGN 0.04   0.06   0.08  
SKN 0.05 B 0.07   0.08 B
TKN 0.05 B 0.2   0.1  
SRP 0.006   0.008   0.008  
TDP 0.008 B 0.009 B 0.008 B
TP 0.011   0.015   0.016  
DOC 1220   1232   1738  
BDOC .   117   344  
TSS 0.5 B 2.2   3.9  
TSS05 0.4 B 1.6   1.9  
TSS10 0.04 B 0.4   0.9  
TSS20 0.1   0.4   1  
VSS 0.2 B 0.8   1.1  
VSS05 0.1 B 0.5   0.6  
VSS10 0.007 B 0.1   0.2  
VSS20 0.03   0.1 B 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
24JUL00
3.0921
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2001
12JUL01
1.9329
08FEB01
4.4737
2002
11JUN02
12.2258
04FEB02
17.9984
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 0.0006 E 0.0016 HE 0.0011 E 0.0007 E 0.01   0.0009 E
PHE 0.003   0.004   0.003 E 0.002 E 0.01 E 0.007 E
ANT 0.0005 E 0.0008 HE 0.0008 E 0.002 E 0 NE 0.005 E
2MP 0.002 E 0.0019 HE 0.003 E 0.002 E 0.005 E 0.006 E
1MP 0.0019   0.0004 HE 0.0004 E 0.0003 E 0.0016 E 0.003 E
FLR 0.002 E 0.003 HE 0.004 E 0.0015 E 0.011 E 0.004 E
PYR 0.001   0.002 HE 0.002 E 0.0016 E 0.008 E 0.003 E
BAA 0.002 E 0.0007 HE 0.001 E 0.0008 E 0.006 E 0.004 E
CHR 0.0007 E 0.0009 HE 0.0019 E 0.0007 E 0 NE 0.002 E
BBF 0.0008 E 0.0008 HE 0.0011 E 0.0014 E 0 NE 0 NE
BKF 0.0005 E 0.0007 HE 0.001 E 0.0015 E 0 NE 0 NE
BAP 0.0016 E 0.0017   0.001 E 0.0012 E 0.002 E 0 NE
HHCB 0.003   0.009   0.007 E 0.006 E 0.019 E 0.006 E
AHTN 0.016 E 0.012 HE 0.003 E 0 NE 0.016   0.014 E
CAF 0.008   0.004   0.002 E 0.003 E 0 NE 0.016  
bCOP 0.03 E 0.012   0.01 E 0.02   0.003 E 0.014 E
EPI 0.008 E 0.003   0.003 E 0.004 E 0 NE 0.007  
CHO 0.8   0.1   0.3   0.1   0.5   0.2  
aCOP 0.2 E 0.02   0.05   0.04   0.1   0.03  
aONE 0.05 E 0 NE 0.01   0.004 E 0.02   0 NE
bONE 0.06   0.02   0.016   0.02   0.04   0 NE
SNOL 0.08 E 0.03   0.03   0.07   0.08   0.03  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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