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


Site 57 - Kisco River at Mount Kisco - KISMTKIS - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.208288
Longitude(dd): -73.740647

Watershed Area: 38.9 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
20.98% 8.60% 69.55% 0.61%

6.08%

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1990
2000

Total Population

13243
14440
Population Density (ind./km2)
340.56
371.12
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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
29SEP00
0.1287
29SEP00
0.1287
2001
06SEP01
0.0344
06SEP01
0.0344
2002
13AUG02

0.0373

13AUG02
0.0373

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.4   7.6   7.4  
ALKL 84   103   114  
COND 329   476   616  
CA 30   .   .  
MG 9.2   13   16  
NA 23   35   45  
K 3.1   3.7   4.7  
CL 45   78   113  
SO4 12   14   15  
NH4N 0.04   0.05   0.09  
NO3N 0.2   0.3   0.3  
ORGN 0.2   0.2   0.3  
SKN 0.3   0.3   0.4  
TKN 0.3   0.4   0.5  
SRP 0.014   0.02   0.02  
TDP 0.018   0.03   0.03  
TP 0.05   0.07   0.05  
DOC 4874   3554   3593  
BDOC .   347   557  
TSS 1.4   2.5   4.2  
TSS05 1.3 B 2.3   3.3  
TSS10 0.07 B 0.4   0.4  
TSS20 0.09   0.4   0.3 B
VSS 0.9   1.1   1.4  
VSS05 0.8   1   1.3  
VSS10 0.04 B 0.09   0.1  
VSS20 0.04   0.09 B 0.1 B

 

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
29SEP00
0.1287
2001
06SEP01
0.0344
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2002
13AUG02
0.0373
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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 0.004 E .   0.003 HE .   0.009 E .  
PHE 0.01 E .   0.008 HE .   0.02   .  
ANT 0.01   .   0.004 HE .   0.003 E .  
2MP 0.002 E .   0.0015 HE .   0.004 E .  
1MP 0.0008 E .   0.0016 HE .   0.0019 E .  
FLR 0.0015 E .   0.02 HE .   0.03   .  
PYR 0.013 E .   0.019 HE .   0.02 E .  
BAA 0.007 E .   0.003 HE .   0.01   .  
CHR 0.0016 E .   0.006 HE .   0.009   .  
BBF 0.0009   .   0.004 HE .   0.012 E .  
BKF 0.0004   .   0.003 HE .   0.011   .  
BAP 0.0017 E .   0.004 HE .   0.006 E .  
HHCB 0.009   .   0.006 HE .   0.016   .  
AHTN 0.006   .   0.005 HE .   0.01 E .  
CAF 0.03   .   0.007 HE .   0.09 E .  
bCOP 0.03   .   0.012 HE .   0.02   .  
EPI 0.013 E .   0.003 HE .   0.007   .  
CHO 0.4   .   0.5   .   0.8   .  
aCOP 0.09   .   0.06   .   0.1   .  
aONE 0.03 E .   0.01 HE .   0.019   .  
bONE 0.013   .   0.014   .   0.2   .  
SNOL 0.08   .   0.04   .   0.2   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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