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


Site 49 - Hallocks Mill Brook near Amawalk - MUSHALLC - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.285831
Longitude(dd): -73.766065

Watershed Area: 29.5 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
31.48% 11.32% 54.32% 2.63%

7.76%

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1990
2000

Total Population

14344
15225
Population Density (ind./km2)
486.13
515.99
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
1
1
1
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
6.99 cm
7.36 cm
6.48 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
0.0494
12SEP00
0.0494
2001
05SEP01
0.0278
05SEP01
0.0278
2002
13AUG02

0.0283

13AUG02
0.0283

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7   7   6.8  
ALKL 94   101   135  
COND 630   838   960  
CA 36   .   .  
MG 12   14   14  
NA 48   66   76  
K 7.1   11   14  
CL 115   164   180  
SO4 20   32   28  
NH4N 10   18   26  
NO3N 1.5   3.4   1.8  
ORGN 1   0 N 2.3  
SKN 11   17   28  
TKN 11   17   29  
SRP 0.011   0.005   0.01  
TDP 0.019   0.016   0.03  
TP 0.05   0.08   0.1  
DOC 8720   8171   12949  
BDOC .   2420   4014  
TSS 1 B 4.3   6.1  
TSS05 0.8 B 3.5   19  
TSS10 0 B 0.2 B 0.2  
TSS20 0.3   0.8   0.5  
VSS 0.7   2.7   2.3  
VSS05 0.6   2.3   7.1  
VSS10 0 B 0.07   0.08  
VSS20 0.08   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
12SEP00
0.0494
2001
06SEP01
0.0278
08MAR01
0.6385
2002
12AUG02
0.0212
21FEB01
0.1668
2003    
11FEB03
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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 0.03 HE 0.01 HE 0.003 E 0.02 E 0.05 E 0.018 E
PHE 0.013 HE 0.02 HE 0.01 E 0.05 E 0.014 E 0.04 E
ANT 0.003 HE 0.002 HE 0.005 E 0.004 E 0.004 E 0.009 E
2MP 0.016 HE 0.007   0.03 E 0.04 E 0.1 E 0.02 E
1MP 0.011 HE 0.004 HE 0.002 E 0.009 E 0.05   0.016 E
FLR 0.05 HE 0.03   0.1 E 0.08 E 0.2   0.04 E
PYR 0.01 HE 0.019 HE 0.002 E 0.06 E 0.3 E 0.03 E
BAA 0.005 HE 0.003 HE 0.0019 E 0.008 E 0.006 E 0.017  
CHR 0.004 HE 0.004 HE 0.003 E 0.03   0.003 E 0.015 E
BBF 0.004 HE 0.004 HE 0.003 E 0.02   0.003 E 0.02  
BKF 0.002 HE 0.004 HE 0.002 E 0.018   0.0015 E 0.012 E
BAP 0.003 HE 0.01   0.019 E 0.014   0 NE 0.04  
HHCB 1   0.4   1.3   0.8   2.9   0.5  
AHTN 0.2   0.1   0.5   0.1   0.9   0.2  
CAF 4.9   1.8   0.2 HE 1.7 E 9   5.4 E
bCOP 2.8   0.4   0.3 HE 8.2 E 48 E 1.1  
EPI 0.1   0.015 HE 0.01 E 0.2 E 85 E 0.06  
CHO 4.3   1   0.8 HE 16 E 48 E 1.7  
aCOP 0.3   0.1   0.04 E 0.7 E 1.4   0.2  
aONE 0 NE 0.014 HE 0.003 E 0.05 E 0 NE 0.05 E
bONE 0.3   0.03   0.04 E 0.4   0 NE 0.3  
SNOL 0.1   0.07   0.02 E 0.6 E 0 NE 0.2  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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