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


Site 51 - Hunter Brook near Mohansic State Park - CROHUNTR - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.278899
Longitude(dd): -73.835252

Watershed Area: 15.6 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
20.83% 6.77% 69.89% 0.41%

3.84%

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1990
2000

Total Population

6407
6952
Population Density (ind./km2)
409.51
444.38
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
2
2
2
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.05 cm
0.07 cm
0.06 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
13SEP00
0.0356
13SEP00
0.0356
2001
06SEP01
0.0138
06SEP01
0.0138
2002
14AUG02

0.0144

14AUG02
0.0144

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8.4   7.7   7.6  
ALKL 108   96   108  
COND 429   445   484  
CA 36   .   .  
MG 12   12   13  
NA 34   35   35  
K 2.4   2.8   3.2  
CL 62   69   73  
SO4 13   18   16  
NH4N 0.013   0.02   0.03  
NO3N 0.3   0.4   0.4  
ORGN 0.2   0.3   0.3  
SKN 0.2   0.3   0.4  
TKN 0.4   0.3   0.8  
SRP 0.003   0.04   0.03  
TDP 0.008 B 0.04   0.04  
TP 0.04   0.06   0.06  
DOC 3900   3989   4453  
BDOC .   460   216  
TSS 2.7   5.3   3.6  
TSS05 2.5   6.4   2.1  
TSS10 0.2   0.4   0.5  
TSS20 .   0.7   0.6  
VSS 0.8   1.8   1.6  
VSS05 0.8   2.4   0.8  
VSS10 0.03 B 0.1   0.2  
VSS20 .   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
13SEP00
0.0356
2001
05SEP01
0.0147
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2002
12AUG02
0.0112
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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 0.005   .   0.004 HE .   0.004 E .  
PHE 0.02 HE .   0.01 HE .   0.009 E .  
ANT 0.02   .   0.007 HE .   0.0018 E .  
2MP 0.004 HE .   0.003 HE .   0.003 E .  
1MP 0.0014 HE .   0.0014 HE .   0.0012 E .  
FLR 0.02 HE .   0.011 HE .   0.014 E .  
PYR 0.018   .   0.012 HE .   0.011 E .  
BAA 0.0013 HE .   0.0018 HE .   0.003 E .  
CHR 0.009 HE .   0.003 HE .   0.002 E .  
BBF 0.006 HE .   0.003 HE .   0 NE .  
BKF 0.003 HE .   0.0017 HE .   0.004 E .  
BAP 0.008 HE .   0.003 HE .   0.00016 E .  
HHCB 0.013   .   0.009 HE .   0.012   .  
AHTN 0.007   .   0.008 HE .   0.008 E .  
CAF 0.2   .   0.03   .   0.07   .  
bCOP 0.07   .   0.011 HE .   0.04   .  
EPI 0.011   .   0.004 HE .   0.03   .  
CHO 0.7   .   1.2   .   1   .  
aCOP 0.09   .   0.2   .   0.2   .  
aONE 0.019 HE .   0.03   .   0.03 E .  
bONE 0.04   .   0.03   .   0.08 E .  
SNOL 0.06   .   0.04   .   0.1   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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