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


Site 33 - Leetown Stream near Farmers Mills - WBCLEETN - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.502004
Longitude(dd): -73.744515
Watershed Area: 8.4 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
1.95% 4.63% 90.14% 1.61%

8.19%

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1990
2000

Total Population

992
1045
Population Density (ind./km2)
117.65
123.91
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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
21AUG00
0.0351
21AUG00
0.0351
2001
22AUG01
0.0174
22AUG01
0.0174
2002
16JUL02
0.0051
16JUL02
0.0051

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8.3   7.9   8  
ALKL 112   128   111  
COND 387   414   441  
CA 32   .   .  
MG 14   17   17  
NA 27   25   33  
K 1.4   2.1   1.6  
CL 46   50   67  
SO4 8.9   11   9.2  
NH4N 0.006 B 0.006 B 0.012  
NO3N 0.1   0.3   0.3  
ORGN 0.4   0.2   0.2  
SKN 0.4 Q 0.2   0.2  
TKN 0.2 Q 0.2   0.3  
SRP 0.005   0.002 B 0.005  
TDP 0.006 B 0.007 B 0.01  
TP 0.011   0.011   0.013  
DOC 2981   2134   2739  
BDOC .   265   887  
TSS 11   2   26  
TSS05 9.2   1.4   2.5  
TSS10 1.4   0.7   0.4  
TSS20 0.06   0.5   0.07 B
VSS 2.8   0.6   6  
VSS05 2.4   0.5   1  
VSS10 0.4   0.1   0.09  
VSS20 0.014   0.1 B 0.03 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
21AUG00
0.0351
2001
23AUG00
0.0150
07MAR01
0.0182
2002
15JUL02
0.0066
21FEB02
0.0477
2003    
11FEB03
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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 0.0005 E 0.0005 E 0.003 E 0.004 E 0.016  
PHE 0.0017   0.0017 E 0.0011 E 0.003 E 0.018   0.02  
ANT 0.0004 HE 0.0008   0.00008 E 0.0006 E 0.008 E 0.005 E
2MP 0.0014 HE 0.0017 E 0.0005 E 0.006 E 0.2   0.02 E
1MP 0.00017 HE 0.0004 E 0.002 E 0.0003 E 0.1   0.0009 E
FLR 0.0011 HE 0.0018 E 0.0005 E 0.0018 E 0.1   0.002 E
PYR 0.0005 HE 0.0008   0.0003 E 0.0015 E 0.6   0.0015 E
BAA 0.002 HE 0.0006 E 0.0004 E 0.0006 E 0.016   0.0003 E
CHR 0.0002 HE 0.0006 E 0.001 E 0.0007 E 0.013 E 0.0006 E
BBF 0.00007 HE 0.0006 E 0.00006 E 0.0008 E 0.014 E 0.0006 E
BKF 0.00002 HE 0.0006   0.00003 E 0.0009 E 0.017   0.0006 E
BAP 0.0003 HE 0.0007 E 0.0002 E 0.0007 E 0.014   0.0003 E
HHCB 0.002 HE 0.005   0.0016 E 0.005 E 0.015   0.003 E
AHTN 0.0004 HE 0.007   0.002 E 0.0016 E 0.03   0.003 E
CAF 0.002 HE 0.007 E 0.0006 E 0.004 E 0.018   0.005 E
bCOP 0.016 HE 0.007   0.01 E 0.006 E 0.06   0.04  
EPI 0.005 HE 0.007   0.0009 E 0.003 E 0.04   0.005 E
CHO 0.7 HE 0.1   0.5   0.4   1.6   0.3  
aCOP 0.1 HE 0.04 E 0.1   0.1   0.3   0.06  
aONE 0.02 HE 0.006   0.008   0.017 E 0.07   0.02 E
bONE 0.019 HE 0.014   0.008   0.02   0.1 E 0.06  
SNOL 0.1 HE 0.03   0.04   0.07   0.2   0.04  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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