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


Site 47 - Titicus River near Purdys Station - TTCPURDY - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.327014
Longitude(dd): -73.655407

Watershed Area: 63.9 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
10.63% 13.26% 69.68% 5.83%

8.06%

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1990
2000

Total Population

7398
8754
Population Density (ind./km2)
115.76
136.97
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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
12SEP00
0.1071
12SEP00
0.1071
2001
05SEP01
0.0601
05SEP01
0.0601
2002
31JUL02

0.0536

31JUL02
0.0536

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.5   7.7   7.5  
ALKL 64   70   75  
COND 243   259   281  
CA 22   .   .  
MG 7.3   7.5   8.3  
NA 13   16   16  
K 1.8   2.1   2.3  
CL 26   31   35  
SO4 11   9.6   11  
NH4N 0.1   0.08   0.04  
NO3N 0.1   0.3   0.2  
ORGN 0.2   0.2   0.2  
SKN 0.4   0.3   0.3  
TKN 0.4   0.3   0.3  
SRP 0.03   0.003   0.002 B
TDP 0.03   0.004 B 0.005 B
TP 0.07   0.02   0.01  
DOC 3924   3095   3766  
BDOC .   142   481  
TSS 2   2.7   2.6  
TSS05 1.4   2   2.6  
TSS10 0.06 B 0.4   0.2 B
TSS20 0.5   0.9   0.6  
VSS 0.8   1.3   0.9  
VSS05 0.6   1   0.7  
VSS10 0.019 B 0.2   0.05 B
VSS20 0.2   0.2   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
12OCT00
0.1159
2001
06SEP01
0.0564
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2002
29JUL02
0.1059
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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 0.003 HE .   0.0007 HE .   0.005 E .  
PHE 0.006 HE .   0.0019 HE .   0.019   .  
ANT 0.0012 HE .   0.0009 HE .   0.004 E .  
2MP 0.0016 HE .   0.01 HE .   0.003 E .  
1MP 0.004 HE .   0.001 HE .   0.001 E .  
FLR 0.009   .   0.002 HE .   0.013 E .  
PYR 0.006   .   0.0013 HE .   0.009 E .  
BAA 0.004 HE .   0.0002 HE .   0.004   .  
CHR 0.0019 HE .   0.0003 HE .   0.005   .  
BBF 0.003 HE .   0.0003 HE .   0.005 E .  
BKF 0.002 HE .   0.0002 HE .   0.004 E .  
BAP 0.003   .   0.0003 HE .   0.004 E .  
HHCB 0.009   .   0.004 HE .   0.004 E .  
AHTN 0.018 HE .   0.004 HE .   0.005 E .  
CAF 0.002 HE .   0.0018 HE .   0.009 E .  
bCOP 0.02   .   0.005 HE .   0.004 E .  
EPI 0.014   .   0.003 HE .   0.003 E .  
CHO 0.5   .   0.3   .   0.4   .  
aCOP 0.1   .   0.04   .   0.04   .  
aONE 0.019   .   0.006 HE .   0.012 E .  
bONE 0.04   .   0.005 HE .   0.03 E .  
SNOL 0.04   .   0.02   .   0.05   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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