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


Site 24 - Stony Creek at Phoenicia - ESPSTONY - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.083290
Longitude(dd): -74.315735
Watershed Area: 83.5 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.01% 1.78% 98.11% 0.09%

0.39%

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1990
2000

Total Population

672
669
Population Density (ind./km2)
8.05
8.01
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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
07AUG00
0.9881
07AUG00
0.9881
2001
11JUL01
0.4578
11JUL01
0.4578
2002
26JUN02
1.0926
26JUN02
1.0926

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.8   7.1   7.4  
ALKL 15   18   15  
COND 51   68   58  
CA 5.7   .   .  
MG 0.8   1   0.9  
NA 2.7   4.2   3.2  
K 0.2 B 0.3   0.2 B
CL 2.5   5   3.9  
SO4 5   5.2   5.3  
NH4N 0.005 B 0.007 B 0.011  
NO3N 0.1   0.2   0.1  
ORGN 0.2   0.03   0.019  
SKN 0.2   0.04   0.03 B
TKN 0.06 B 0.05   0.04 B
SRP 0.006   0.006   0.004  
TDP 0.007 B 0.006 B 0.005 B
TP 0.01   0.009 B 0.008 B
DOC 1137   849   1023  
BDOC .   . V 185  
TSS 6.6   6.1   6.7  
TSS05 6   5.1   5.5  
TSS10 0.5   0.3   0.8  
TSS20 0.2   0.3 B 0.7  
VSS 0.9   0.5   1.3  
VSS05 0.7   0.4   0.8  
VSS10 0.08   0.05 B 0.1  
VSS20 0.04   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
07AUG00
0.9881
2001
13JUL01
0.3924
20FEB01
1.4880
2002
24JUN02
1.3946
13FEB02
2.2561
2003    
28JAN03
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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 0.0011 E 0.0011 E 0.0004 E 0.0006 E 0.0013 E 0.0006 E
PHE 0.002   0.003   0.001 E 0.003 E 0.007 E 0.002 E
ANT 0 NE 0.0005 E 0.0003 E 0.0004 E 0.008 E 0.0003 E
2MP 0.002 E 0.0009 E 0.002 E 0.02 E 0.006 E 0.003 E
1MP 0.0004 E 0.0003 E 0.0005 E 0.011 E 0.008 E 0.0003 E
FLR 0.0015 E 0.0012 E 0.0009 E 0.009 E 0.02 E 0.0007 E
PYR 0.0007 E 0.0007 E 0.0004 E 0.05   0.015 E 0.0003 E
BAA 0 NE 0.0004 E 0.0004 E 0.0009 E 0.0014 E 0.0003 E
CHR 0.0003 E 0.0002 E 0.00017 E 0.0003 E 0.0002 E 0.00016 E
BBF 0.00006 E 0 NE 0.0002 E 0.0003 E 0.00008 E 0.00014 E
BKF 0.0006 E 0 NE 0.00009 E 0.0004 E 0.00009 E 0.00014 E
BAP 0.0003 E 0 NE 0.00009 E 0.0004 E 0.0005 E 0 E
HHCB 0.002   0.004   0.0014 E 0.0015 E 0.02 E 0.004 E
AHTN 0.011 E 0.01 E 0.003 E 0.003 E 0.03 E 0.016 E
CAF 0 NE 0.0003 E 0.0008 E 0.0009 E 0.007 E 0.0017 E
bCOP 0 NE 0.004   0.002 E 0.003 E 0.009 E 0.003 E
EPI 0.001   0.0017 E 0.0004 E 0.0006 E 0.012   0.0007 E
CHO 0.2   0.06   0.2   0.07   0.4   0.1  
aCOP 0.04 E 0.008   0.03   0.014   0.09   0.014  
aONE 0.003   0 NE 0.002 E 0.001 E 0.03 E 0.02  
bONE 0.003 E 0.008   0.004 E 0.007   0.019   0.02  
SNOL 0.03   0.009   0.008   0.018   0.05   0.016  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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