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


Site 36 - West Branch Croton River near Allen Corners - WBCALLEN - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.471733
Longitude(dd): -73.760774
Watershed Area: 28.3 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
0.86% 2.17% 89.90% 4.56%

11.07%

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1990
2000

Total Population

987
995
Population Density (ind./km2)
34.81
35.09
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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
0.1181
21AUG00
0.1181
2001
21AUG01
0.0641
21AUG01
0.0641
2002
31JUL02

0.0238

31JUL02
0.0238

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8   7.5   7.5  
ALKL 35   35   36  
COND 192   233   224  
CA 12   .   .  
MG 3.9   3.7   4.2  
NA 19   27   23  
K 0.8   0.9   0.7  
CL 32   46   40  
SO4 12   7.2   9.2  
NH4N 0.005 B 0.008 B 0.011  
NO3N 0.03   0.04   0.04  
ORGN 0.3   0.3   0.2  
SKN 0.3   0.3   0.2  
TKN 0.3   0.3   0.3  
SRP 0.002 B 0.002 B 0.002 B
TDP 0.005 B 0.005 B 0.005 B
TP 0.011   0.008 B 0.01  
DOC 7212   5444   5788  
BDOC .   203   460  
TSS 28   0.9 B 1.5  
TSS05 27   0.7   1.3  
TSS10 1.5   0.2 B 0.1 B
TSS20 0.2   0.4   0.2 B
VSS 7.8   0.4   0.6  
VSS05 7.4   0.3 B 0.3 B
VSS10 0.3   0.06 B 0.06 B
VSS20 0.08   0.1 B 0.09 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
0.1181
2001
23AUG00
0.0504
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2002
29JUL02
0.0470
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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 0.0006 HE .   0.0005 E .   0.0017 E .  
PHE 0 NE .   0.0014 E .   0.003 E .  
ANT 0 NE .   0.00014 E .   0.003 E .  
2MP 0 NE .   0.0006 E .   0.006 E .  
1MP 0 NE .   0.0003 E .   0.006 E .  
FLR 0 NE .   0.0005 E .   0.012 E .  
PYR 0 NE .   0.00019 E .   0.009 E .  
BAA 0 NE .   0.0003 E .   0.0014 E .  
CHR 0 NE .   0.00014 E .   0.0019 E .  
BBF 0 NE .   0.00003 E .   0.012 E .  
BKF 0 NE .   0.00002 E .   0.011   .  
BAP 0 NE .   0.00002 E .   0.0013 E .  
HHCB 0.003 HE .   0.0014 E .   0.011   .  
AHTN 0 NE .   0.003 E .   0.012 E .  
CAF 0 NE .   0.0013 E .   0.019   .  
bCOP 0.01 HE .   0.005 E .   0.03   .  
EPI 0 NE .   0.0014 E .   0.02   .  
CHO 0.4 HE .   0.4   .   0.4   .  
aCOP 0.07 HE .   0.08   .   0.09   .  
aONE 0.03 HE .   0.016   .   0.05   .  
bONE 0.08 HE .   0.007   .   0.08   .  
SNOL 0.06 HE .   0.03   .   0.08 E .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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