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


Site 25 - Beaver Kill at Mount Tremper - ESPBEAVR - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 42.046748
Longitude(dd): -74.276543
Watershed Area: 64.5 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.04% 2.86% 97.06% 0.04%

0.48%

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1990
2000

Total Population

670
712
Population Density (ind./km2)
10.40
11.04
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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
0.7628
07AUG00
0.7628
2001
11JUL01
0.3534
11JUL01
0.3534
2002
26JUN02
0.8434
26JUN02
0.8434

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.7   7.1   7.3  
ALKL 17   30   21  
COND 57   94   72  
CA 6.1   .   .  
MG 1   1.6   1.3  
NA 3.3   5.3   3.8  
K 0.3 B 0.4   0.3 B
CL 3   7   4.5  
SO4 5.5   6.4   5.5  
NH4N 0.004 B 0.004 B 0.008 B
NO3N 0.1   0.2   0.1  
ORGN 0.06   0.05   0.009  
SKN 0.07 B 0.05   0.017 B
TKN 0.05 B 0.02   0.04 B
SRP 0.003   0.004   0.003  
TDP 0.005 B 0.004 B 0.003 B
TP 0.005 B 0.005 B 0.005 B
DOC 1341   866   1192  
BDOC .   . V 164  
TSS 4.3   1 B 1.7  
TSS05 3.2   1   1.2  
TSS10 0.9   0.2 B 0.2 B
TSS20 0.1   0.3 B 0.4  
VSS 1.3   0.2 B 0.4  
VSS05 1   0.1 B 0.4  
VSS10 0.3   0.04 B 0.05 B
VSS20 0.04   0.06 B 0.1 B

 

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
0.7628
2001
13JUL01
0.3029
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2002
24JUN02
1.0765
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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 .   0.0005 E .  
PHE 0.0015 E .   0.0009 E .   0.0013 E .  
ANT 0.003 E .   0.0005 E .   0.00019 E .  
2MP 0.0005 E .   0.0012 E .   0.0005 E .  
1MP 0.0007 E .   0.0006 E .   0.00013 E .  
FLR 0.0007 E .   0.0008 E .   0.0018 E .  
PYR 0.0006   .   0.0005 E .   0.0002 E .  
BAA 0.0016 E .   0.0002 E .   0.0008 E .  
CHR 0.0006 E .   0.00018 E .   0.0007 E .  
BBF 0.004   .   0.0003 E .   0.0005 E .  
BKF 0.0004 E .   0.00011 E .   0.0012 E .  
BAP 0.00013 E .   0.00012 E .   0.00017 E .  
HHCB 0.003   .   0.0012 E .   0.002 E .  
AHTN 0.018 E .   0.004 E .   0.004 E .  
CAF 0.0002 E .   0.0015 E .   0.002 E .  
bCOP 0.012 E .   0.0017 E .   0.006 E .  
EPI 0.006 E .   0.0002 E .   0.0014 E .  
CHO 0.4   .   0.1   .   0.2   .  
aCOP 0.05   .   0.018   .   0.06   .  
aONE 0.01 E .   0 NE .   0.007   .  
bONE 0.03 E .   0 NE .   0.008 E .  
SNOL 0.07 E .   0.01   .   0.04   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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