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


Site 54 - Unnamed Tributray of the Croton River - CROUTRB1 - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.248582
Longitude(dd): -73.821063

Watershed Area: 3.6 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
4.35% 19.32% 76.27% 0.05%

1.75%

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1990
2000

Total Population

215
217
Population Density (ind./km2)
60.18
60.66
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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
13SEP00
0.0081
12SEP00
0.0081
2001
18SEP01
0.0052
05SEP01
0.0052
2002
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no flow

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no flow

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.7   7.4   .  
ALKL 47   41   .  
COND 244   237   .  
CA 19   .   .  
MG 6.6   6.4   .  
NA 18   16   .  
K 2.3   2.2   .  
CL 34   35   .  
SO4 13   14   .  
NH4N 0.006 B 0.007 B .  
NO3N 0.5   0.5   .  
ORGN 0.2   0.1   .  
SKN 0.2   0.1   .  
TKN 0.2   0.08   .  
SRP 0.015   0.012   .  
TDP 0.017   0.013   .  
TP 0.02   0.012   .  
DOC 3979   1551   .  
BDOC .   .   .  
TSS 1.4   1 B .  
TSS05 0.8 B 0.6   .  
TSS10 0.2   0.3   .  
TSS20 0.4   0.8   .  
VSS 0.5   0.4   .  
VSS05 0.3   0.2 B .  
VSS10 0.06   0.09   .  
VSS20 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
13SEP00
0.0081
2001
05SEP01
0.0034
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2002
---
no flow
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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 0.0012 HE .   0.0005 E .   .   .  
PHE 0.003 HE .   0.003 E .   .   .  
ANT 0.003 HE .   0.003 E .   .   .  
2MP 0.003 HE .   0.003 E .   .   .  
1MP 0.0006 HE .   0.0011 E .   .   .  
FLR 0.0013 HE .   0.004 E .   .   .  
PYR 0.002   .   0.003 E .   .   .  
BAA 0.0005 HE .   0.003 E .   .   .  
CHR 0.00008 HE .   0.003 E .   .   .  
BBF 0.0004   .   0.004 E .   .   .  
BKF 0.00016 HE .   0.004 E .   .   .  
BAP 0.0008 HE .   0.006 E .   .   .  
HHCB 0.004   .   0.002 E .   .   .  
AHTN 0.0011 HE .   0.005 E .   .   .  
CAF 0.002   .   0.0016 E .   .   .  
bCOP 0.006   .   0.0004 E .   .   .  
EPI 0.011   .   0.0003 E .   .   .  
CHO 0.2   .   0.2   .   .   .  
aCOP 0.03   .   0.03   .   .   .  
aONE 0.018 HE .   0.014 E .   .   .  
bONE 0.003 HE .   0.006   .   .   .  
SNOL 0.03   .   0.03   .   .   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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