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


Site 48 - Crook Brook near Grant Corner - TTCCROOK - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.318073
Longitude(dd): -73.587466

Watershed Area: 5.3 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
1.25% 1.74% 93.49% 3.51%

5.29%

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1990
2000

Total Population

139
176
Population Density (ind./km2)
26.07
32.98
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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
0.0090
12SEP00
0.0090
2001
05SEP01
0.0050
05SEP01
0.0050
2002
31JUL02

0.0045

31JUL02
0.0045

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8   8.2   7.6  
ALKL 86   96   58  
COND 276   348   235  
CA 29   .   .  
MG 7.2   8.6   5.9  
NA 15   21   14  
K 2   2.7   1.7  
CL 27   45   31  
SO4 10   10   11  
NH4N 0.007 B 0.003 B 0.015  
NO3N 0.3   0.4   0.2  
ORGN 0.06   0.1   0.1  
SKN 0.06 B 0.1   0.1  
TKN 0.09 B 0.1   0.1  
SRP 0.006   0.007   0.007  
TDP 0.008 B 0.008 B 0.009 B
TP 0.009 B 0.01   0.011  
DOC 1386   1448   2123  
BDOC . V . V 136  
TSS 0.5 B 1 B 2.3  
TSS05 0.1 B 0.4 B 1.2  
TSS10 0.06 B 0.2   0.3  
TSS20 0.3   0.6   0.8  
VSS 0.09 B 0.3   0.7  
VSS05 0.04 B 0.1 B 0.3 B
VSS10 0.001 B 0.06   0.06  
VSS20 0.06   0.1 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
0.0090
2001
06SEP01
0.0047
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2002
29JUL02
0.0089
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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 NE .   0.0005 HE .   0.003 E .  
PHE 0.005 HE .   0.001 HE .   0.002 E .  
ANT 0.0008   .   0.0004 HE .   0.002 E .  
2MP 0.0012 HE .   0.0002 HE .   0.005 E .  
1MP 0.0004 HE .   0.00013 HE .   0.004 E .  
FLR 0.005   .   0.0008 HE .   0.03 E .  
PYR 0.004   .   0.0004 HE .   0.03 E .  
BAA 0.0018   .   0.0007 HE .   0.008   .  
CHR 0.002   .   0.0003 HE .   0.007 E .  
BBF 0.003   .   0.0003 HE .   0.011 E .  
BKF 0.002   .   0.00017 HE .   0.008 E .  
BAP 0.0019   .   0.0004 HE .   0.003 E .  
HHCB 0.003   .   0.0012 HE .   0.007 E .  
AHTN 0.005   .   0.003 HE .   0.009 E .  
CAF 0.003   .   0.0005 HE .   0.05 E .  
bCOP 0.0018 HE .   0.004 HE .   0.05 E .  
EPI 0 NE .   0.0005 HE .   0.018 E .  
CHO 0.1   .   0.2   .   4.1 E .  
aCOP 0.016   .   0.014   .   0.5 E .  
aONE 0.0019 HE .   0.002 HE .   0.1 E .  
bONE 0.004 HE .   0.011   .   0.3 E .  
SNOL 0.008   .   0.013   .   0.5 E .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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