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

Site 46 - Muscoot River near Baldwin Place - MUSBALDW - IMAGE Gallery Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates

Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description Latitude(dd): 41.332659 Longitude(dd): -73.764970 Watershed Area: 35.1 km2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland 13.63% 9.91% 65.10% 10.12% 9.47% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   1990 2000 Total Population 11879 13764 Population Density (ind./km2) 338.20 391.88 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   2000 2001 2002 # of SPDES Dischargers 5 5 5 Total Annual Volume (normalized for watershed area) 0.62 cm 0.63 cm 0.80 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 12SEP00 0.0589 12SEP00 0.0589 2001 06SEP01 0.0310 06SEP01 0.0310 2002 14AUG02 0.0324 14AUG02 0.0324 Data Table - Methodology   2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL pH 7.6   8.2   8.3   ALKL 70   125   87   COND 245   634   444   CA 19   .   .   MG 6.8   18   12   NA 17   51   32   K 1.5   6.1   4.1   CL 34   100   72   SO4 10   33   16   NH4N 0.007 B 0.003 B 0.008 B NO3N 0.07   1.6   1   ORGN 0.3   0.3   0.4   SKN 0.3   0.3   0.4   TKN 0.4   0.3   0.4   SRP 0.016   0.03   0.05   TDP 0.02   0.04   0.06   TP 0.04   0.05   0.07   DOC 6336   2917   4204   BDOC .   103   138   TSS 1.7   0.9 B 4.1   TSS05 0.8 B 0.9   8.7   TSS10 0.1 B 0.2   0.3   TSS20 0.9   0.2 B 0.7   VSS 0.8   0.4   1.6   VSS05 0.4   0.4 B 3.1   VSS10 0.04 B 0.08   0.1   VSS20 0.4   0.09 B 0.2     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 12SEP00 0.0589 2001 05SEP01 0.0330 08MAR01 0.7610 2002 12AUG02 0.0252 21FEB02 0.1985 2003     11FEB03 . Data Table - Methodology   2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL FLU 0.0015 HE 0.006 HE 0.0008 E 0.008 E 0.0013 E 0.018   PHE 0.003 HE 0.016   0.0015 E 0.02   0.004 E 0.05   ANT 0.0008 HE 0.004 HE 0.001 E 0.005 E 0.0004 E 0.05   2MP 0.008 HE 0.01 HE 0.003 E 0.03 E 0.001 E 0.04 E 1MP 0 NE 0.004 HE 0.0006 E 0.017 E 0.0006 E 0.02 E FLR 0.004 HE 0.006   0.005 E 0.04   0.006 E 0.02 E PYR 0.002   0.005   0.002 E 0.08   0.003 E 0.018 E BAA 0.0007 HE 0.002 HE 0.0006 E 0.006 E 0.0013 E 0.019 E CHR 0.0015 HE 0.003 HE 0.0009 E 0.012   0.0015 E 0.019 E BBF 0.0014 HE 0.004 HE 0.0007 E 0.015 E 0.0019 E 0.02 E BKF 0.0014   0.003   0.0008 E 0.014 E 0 NE 0.0007 E BAP 0.0012   0.003 HE 0.0009 E 0.01 E 0.0017 E 0.02   HHCB 0.006   0.08   0.005 E 0.1   0.03   0.07   AHTN 0.007   0.04   0.007 E 0.06   0.015   0.04 E CAF 0.012 HE 0.1   0.006 E 0.02   0.03 E 0.3   bCOP 0.02   0.06   0.007 E 0.07   0.03   0.06   EPI 0 NE 0.005   0.007   0.009   0.005 E 0.04 E CHO 3   0.4   0.4   1.1   0.4   0.8   aCOP 0.2   0.06   0.06   0.2   0.1   0.1   aONE 0.04   0.01 HE 0.008 E 0.06   0.007 E 0.07   bONE 0.08   0.02   0.008   0.05   0.04 E 0.06 E SNOL 0.1   0.04   0.03   0.2   0.09   0.07     Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology Water Quality Score - WQS Definition