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


Site 52 - Cross River in Ward Pound Ridge Reserve - CRSWARDP - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.260288
Longitude(dd): -73.601986

Watershed Area: 44.5 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
5.90% 7.37% 82.10% 4.53%

9.34%

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1990
2000

Total Population

5717
5813
Population Density (ind./km2)
128.37
130.54
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
1
1
1
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
0.0746
12SEP00
0.0746
2001
05SEP01
0.0419
05SEP01
0.0419
2002
30JUL02

0.0514

30JUL02
0.0514

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8   8.1   8  
ALKL 65   74   68  
COND 264   297   283  
CA 25   .   .  
MG 6.6   7.5   6.9  
NA 14   18   17  
K 1.7   2.2   2.4  
CL 32   43   37  
SO4 10   9.5   9.1  
NH4N 0.012   0.003 B 0.017  
NO3N 0.1   0.08   0.3  
ORGN 0.1   0.2   0.2  
SKN 0.1   0.2   0.2  
TKN 0.2   0.2   0.3  
SRP 0.013   0.012   0.03  
TDP 0.015   0.014   0.03  
TP 0.02   0.02   0.04  
DOC 2746   3848   3932  
BDOC .   565   388  
TSS 0.1 B 0.9 B 2.4  
TSS05 0 B 0.6   2.3  
TSS10 0 B 0.1 B 0.4  
TSS20 0.1   0.3 B 0.5  
VSS 0.05 B 0.4   1  
VSS05 0 B 0.3 B 0.9  
VSS10 0 B 0.06 B 0.1  
VSS20 0.05   0.1   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
0.0746
2001
05SEP01
0.0419
07MAR01
0.9570
2002
29JUL02
0.0738
21FEB02
0.2517
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 0.0011 HE 0.001 E 0.0007 E 0.006 E 0.0015 E 0.002 E
PHE 0.003 HE 0.003 E 0.003 E 0.006 E 0.018   0.0016 E
ANT 0.004   0.0007 E 0.0008 E 0.001 E 0.0013 E 0.001 E
2MP 0.004 HE 0.003 E 0.004 E 0.011 E 0.3   0.014 E
1MP 0.00018 HE 0 NE 0.0008 E 0.0007 E 0.1   0.0018 E
FLR 0.005   0.002 E 0.002 E 0.005 E 0.2   0.002 E
PYR 0.0008 HE 0.0016 E 0.0014 E 0.004 E 1   0.0013 E
BAA 0.0007 HE 0.0005 E 0.001 E 0.0015 E 0.003 E 0.0005 E
CHR 0.0007 HE 0.0009 E 0.0007 E 0.002 E 0.002 E 0.0007 E
BBF 0.0006 HE 0.001 E 0.0012 E 0.002 E 0.0005 E 0.0008 E
BKF 0.0004 HE 0.0007 E 0.0008 E 0.002 E 0.001 E 0.0007 E
BAP 0.0007   0.0008 E 0.0006 E 0.0018 E 0.0006 E 0.0007 E
HHCB 0.0006 HE 0.004   0.003 E 0.007 E 0.002 E 0.0018 E
AHTN 0.006   0.02 E 0.013 E 0.003 E 0.008 E 0.009 E
CAF 0.009   0.006 E 0.002 E 0.005 E 0.03 E 0.019 E
bCOP 0.011   0.008 E 0.009 E 0.013 E 0.001 E 0.03  
EPI 0.005 HE 0.004 E 0.0018 E 0.005   0.008 E 0.004  
CHO 0.5   0.4   0.4   1.1   0.8   0.5  
aCOP 0.07   0.05   0.06   0.1   0.2   0.1  
aONE 0.005   0.008 E 0.02   0.02 E 0.03   0.02  
bONE 0.012 HE 0.012 E 0.015   0.04   0.06   0.06  
SNOL 0.04   0.05   0.04   0.1   0.1   0.07  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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