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


Site 14 - Platt Kill at Dunraven - EBDPLATT - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.132560
Longitude(dd): -74.695428
Watershed Area: 90.7 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.00% 23.38% 76.52% 0.10% 0.37%
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1990
2000

Total Population

537
794
Population Density (ind./km2)
5.92
8.75
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
0
0
0
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.00 cm
0.00 cm
0.00 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
0.3575
07SEP00
0.3575
2001
10JUL01
0.4630
10JUL01
0.4630
2002
11JUN02
2.4747
11JUN02
2.4747

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.9   7   7.9  
ALKL 26   27   17  
COND 93   106   62  
CA 9.1   .   .  
MG 2.1   2.2   1.5  
NA 5.3   7.3   3.3  
K 0.7   0.8   0.4  
CL 6   11   3.5  
SO4 6.4   6.1   4.5  
NH4N 0.007 B 0.01   0.004 B
NO3N 0.1   0.2   0.05  
ORGN 0.03   0.09   0.09  
SKN 0.04 B 0.1   0.1 B
TKN 0.07 B 0.2   0.2  
SRP 0.012   0.016   0.009  
TDP 0.013   0.014   0.01  
TP 0.015   0.018   0.017  
DOC 1350   1395   1885  
BDOC .   . V 280  
TSS 0.4 B 1.2 B 4.9  
TSS05 0.3 B 0.8   1.9  
TSS10 0.02 B 0.2 B 0.7  
TSS20 0.06   0.4   1.3  
VSS 0.2 B 0.6   1.4  
VSS05 0.1 B 0.4   0.6  
VSS10 0 B 0.07   0.2  
VSS20 0.02   0.1 B 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
11OCT00
0.4997
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2001
12JUL01
0.3913
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2002
11JUN02
2.4747
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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 0.0004 E .   0.0005 E .   0.003 E .  
PHE 0.0007 E .   0.0016 E .   0.003 E .  
ANT 0 NE .   0.003 E .   0.001 E .  
2MP 0 NE .   0.0015 E .   0.0017 E .  
1MP 0 NE .   0.0002 E .   0.008 E .  
FLR 0.0003 E .   0.0003 E .   0.003 E .  
PYR 0 NE .   0.0003 E .   0.002 E .  
BAA 0 NE .   0.0002 E .   0.002 E .  
CHR 0.0004   .   0.0003 E .   0.0015 E .  
BBF 0 NE .   0.0003 E .   0.0017 E .  
BKF 0 NE .   0.0002 E .   0.0016 E .  
BAP 0 NE .   0.00013 E .   0.0015 E .  
HHCB 0.003   .   0.005 E .   0.006 E .  
AHTN 0.0016 E .   0.003 E .   0.008 E .  
CAF 0 NE .   0.005 E .   0.005 E .  
bCOP 0.013   .   0.03   .   0.03   .  
EPI 0 NE .   0.0017 E .   0.01   .  
CHO 0.2   .   0.3   .   0.6   .  
aCOP 0.04   .   0.04   .   0.1   .  
aONE 0.006 E .   0.005 E .   0.03 E .  
bONE 0 NE .   0.015 E .   0.03   .  
SNOL 0.03 E .   0.02   .   0.07   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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