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


Site 27 - West Branch Neversink near Claryville - NVRWTBRH - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.920402
Longitude(dd): -74.574486
Watershed Area: 87.1 km2




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West of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.09% 0.41% 98.75% 0.75%

0.35%

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1990
2000

Total Population

91
121
Population Density (ind./km2)
1.04
1.39
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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
03OCT00
1.2105
03OCT00
1.2105
2001
24JUL01
0.5395
24JUL01
0.5395
2002
25JUN02
1.5991
25JUN02
1.5991

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 6.8   6.1   7  
ALKL 6.4   8.8   7  
COND 30   37   32  
CA 3   .   .  
MG 0.5   0.7   0.6  
NA 1 B 1.5   1.2 B
K 0.2 B 0.3   0.2 B
CL 0.8 B 2.5   1.2  
SO4 5.3   4.7   4.7  
NH4N 0.006 B 0.009 B 0.01 B
NO3N 0.06   0.2   0.1  
ORGN 0.009   0.05   0.02  
SKN 0.015 B 0.05   0.03 B
TKN 0.02 B 0.04   0.06 B
SRP 0 B 0.001 B 0.002 B
TDP 0.003 B 0.004 B 0.003 B
TP 0.003 B 0.005 B 0.005 B
DOC 947   889   1243  
BDOC .   157   230  
TSS 2.8   0.9 B 2  
TSS05 1.9   0.3 B 1.1  
TSS10 0.8   0.08 B 0.2  
TSS20 0.1   0.2 B 0.8  
VSS 1   0.4   0.9  
VSS05 0.7   0.3 B 0.4  
VSS10 0.3   0.05 B 0.09  
VSS20 0.05   0.09 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
07AUG00
2.7619
2001
25JUL01
0.5144
06FEB01
0.9221
2002
24JUN02
2.1211
04FEB02
2.5224
2003    
15JAN03
1.5781

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 HE 0.0005 HE 0.003 E 0.0005 E 0.00019 E
PHE 0.0019 E 0.001 HE 0.0018 HE 0.011 E 0.001 E 0.006 E
ANT 0.00018 E 0.00019 HE 0.0009 HE 0.006 E 0.0002 E 0.005 E
2MP 0 NE 0.0011 HE 0.006 HE 0.004 E 0.0005 E 0.005 E
1MP 0 NE 0.00019 HE 0.0005 HE 0.0016 E 0.0002 E 0.003 E
FLR 0.0007 E 0.0006 HE 0.0018 HE 0.0018 E 0.003 E 0.003 E
PYR 0.0004 E 0.0004 HE 0.0007 HE 0.002 E 0.0003 E 0.003 E
BAA 0 NE 0.0004 HE 0.0002 HE 0.0014 E 0.0003 E 0.004 E
CHR 0.00009 E 0.0003 HE 0.0004 HE 0.0015 E 0.0002 E 0.002 E
BBF 0 NE 0.0003 HE 0.0009 HE 0.002 E 0.0004 E 0 NE
BKF 0.001 E 0 NE 0.0004 HE 0.002 E 0.0003 E 0 NE
BAP 0 NE 0 NE 0.0006 HE 0.0016 E 0.0004 E 0 NE
HHCB 0.003 E 0.002   0.007 HE 0.013 E 0.0016 E 0.004 E
AHTN 0.008 E 0.006 HE 0.008 HE 0.006 E 0.003 E 0.008 E
CAF 0 NE 0 NE 0.0015 E 0.004 E 0.0019 E 0.0016 E
bCOP 0.003 E 0 NE 0.01 HE 0.007 E 0.006 E 0 NE
EPI 0.0018   0 NE 0.0015 HE 0.003 E 0.0008 E 0.005 E
CHO 0.2   0.06   0.2   0.08   0.2   0.06  
aCOP 0.02 E 0.008   0.05   0.015   0.05   0.015  
aONE 0 NE 0.02   0.01   0.003 E 0.0017 E 0 NE
bONE 0.003 E 0.02   0.013   0.008 E 0.008   0 NE
SNOL 0.019 E 0.015   0.03   0.07 E 0.04   0.018  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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