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


Site 43 - Secor Brook at West Mahopac - MUSSECOR - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.370157
Longitude(dd): -73.784534
Watershed Area: 6.8 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
14.14% 9.68% 69.23% 3.73%

11.32%

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1990
2000

Total Population

2448
3160
Population Density (ind./km2)
358.45
462.72
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
1
1
1
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
2.81 cm
2.88 cm
3.54 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
22AUG00
0.0235
22AUG00
0.0235
2001
23AUG01
0.0121
23AUG01
0.0121
2002
14AUG02

0.0063

14AUG02
0.0063

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.3   7   7.1  
ALKL 67   74   101  
COND 333   875   702  
CA 27   .   .  
MG 8.5   19   16  
NA 29   74   53  
K 3.6   14   12  
CL 5.5   151   109  
SO4 14   77   46  
NH4N 0.1   0.06   0.8  
NO3N 1.9   12   6.3  
ORGN 0.6   0.5   1  
SKN 0.7   0.5   1.7  
TKN 0.8   0.9   2.1  
SRP 0.1   0.07   0.04  
TDP 0.1   0.08   0.05  
TP 0.2   0.4   0.4  
DOC 7213   4451   5988  
BDOC .   365   1040  
TSS 44   15   13  
TSS05 41   7.6   .  
TSS10 2.7   0.4   .  
TSS20 0.2   0.9   .  
VSS 13   4.8   6.6  
VSS05 12   2.4   .  
VSS10 1   0.2   .  
VSS20 0.07   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
21AUG00
0.0284
2001
24AUG01
0.0130
08MAR01
0.1478
2002
12AUG02
0.0049
21FEB02
0.0386
2003    
12FEB03
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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 0.003 HE 0.0011 HE 0.003 HE 0.01 E 0.007 E 0.04  
PHE 0.009 HE 0.004 HE 0.016 HE 0.015 E 0.04 E 0.05 E
ANT 0.0009 HE 0.0009 HE 0.03 HE 0.002 E 0.008 E 0.015 E
2MP 0 NE 0.013 HE 0.02 HE 0.008 E 0.04 E 0.02 E
1MP 0.003 HE 0.002   0.002 HE 0.0015 E 0.012 E 0.014 E
FLR 0.006   0.004 HE 0.03   0.014 E 0.012 E 0.03  
PYR 0.0009 HE 0.004   0.01 HE 0.01 E 0.07   0.02 E
BAA 0.008 HE 0.0018 HE 0.007 HE 0.008   0.03   0.014  
CHR 0.003   0.0015 HE 0.0002 HE 0.008 E 0.04 E 0.014 E
BBF 0 NE 0.003   0.004 HE 0.007 E 0.04   0.03  
BKF 0.003   0.002   0.002 HE 0.004 E 0.04   0.013 E
BAP 0.006   0.002 HE 0.003 E 0.0014 E 0.04   0.02  
HHCB 0.8   0.09   4.2   0.0015 E 2.3   0.5  
AHTN 0.5   0.05   1.9   0.007 E 0.9   0.2  
CAF 0.09 HE 0.03 HE 0.0004 HE 0.008 E 0.5   0.2 E
bCOP 0.6 HE 0.08   0.4   0.06   1.4   0.1  
EPI 0.05 HE 0.009   0.03   0.03   0.1   0.014  
CHO 1.2 HE 0.6   0.7   1.5   1.6   0.5  
aCOP 0.3 HE 0.07   0.07   0.3   0.4   0.1  
aONE 0.07 HE 0.014 HE 0.01   0.08 E 0.1   0.03  
bONE 0.4 HE 0.03   0.06   0.1   0.4   0.07  
SNOL 0.2 HE 0.06 HE 0.02   0.2   0.3   0.1  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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