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


Site 15 - Tremper Kill near Andes - EBDTREMP - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.126101
Longitude(dd): -74.811702
Watershed Area: 77.8 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.19% 35.67% 53.54% 0.61% 1.28%
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1990
2000

Total Population

651
656
Population Density (ind./km2)
8.37
8.43
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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
0.3066
07SEP00
0.3066
2001
08AUG01
0.1314
10JUL01
0.1314
2002
12JUN02
2.1409
11JUN02
2.1409

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.9   7.8   7.1  
ALKL 23   23   18  
COND 102   109   71  
CA 8.4   .   .  
MG 2.3   2.4   1.8  
NA 6.6   7.6   4  
K 0.8   1.1   0.5  
CL 11   15   5.3  
SO4 7.5   7   4.9  
NH4N 0.01 B 0.017   0.005 B
NO3N 0.1   0.1   0.2  
ORGN 0.07   0.1   0.1  
SKN 0.08 B 0.1   0.1  
TKN 0.1   0.2   0.2  
SRP 0.009   0.008   0.007  
TDP 0.012   0.014   0.009 B
TP 0.014   0.018   0.019  
DOC 1664   1534   1961  
BDOC .   440   288  
TSS 0.6 B 1.7   5.8  
TSS05 0.4 B 1.4   2.3  
TSS10 0.03 B 0.2 B 1.4  
TSS20 0.1   0.2 B 1.2  
VSS 0.3   0.7   1.7  
VSS05 0.3 B 0.5   0.9  
VSS10 0.03 B 0.06 B 0.3  
VSS20 0.03   0.08 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
26JUL00
0.4659
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2001
09AUG01
0.1217
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2002
11JUN02
2.1221
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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 HE .   0 NE .   0.002 E .  
PHE 0.0019 HE .   0.0008 HE .   0.003 E .  
ANT 0.0002 E .   0.0003 HE .   0.0005 E .  
2MP 0.004 HE .   0.0006 HE .   0.0013 E .  
1MP 0.00013 HE .   0.00011 HE .   0.0018 E .  
FLR 0.0009 HE .   0.0005 HE .   0.001 E .  
PYR 0.0005 HE .   0.0003 HE .   0.0006 E .  
BAA 0.0008   .   0.0005 HE .   0.0005 E .  
CHR 0.0004 HE .   0.00015 HE .   0.0004 E .  
BBF 0.002 HE .   0.0002 HE .   0.0003 E .  
BKF 0.0012 HE .   0.0002 HE .   0.0013 E .  
BAP 0.0014 HE .   0.00018 HE .   0.0004 E .  
HHCB 0.003   .   0.0009 HE .   0.006 E .  
AHTN 0.001 HE .   0.002 HE .   0.011 E .  
CAF 0.006 HE .   0.0007 HE .   0.002 E .  
bCOP 0.05 HE .   0.01 HE .   0.008 E .  
EPI 0.017 HE .   0.003 HE .   0.0013 E .  
CHO 1.5 HE .   0.5   .   0.2   .  
aCOP 0.3 HE .   0.06   .   0.05   .  
aONE 0.07 HE .   0.008 HE .   0.005 E .  
bONE 0.1 HE .   0.016   .   0.003 E .  
SNOL 0.2 HE .   0.02   .   0.05   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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