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


Site 58 - Tributary of Croton River near Lake Purdy - CROUTRB2 - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.326199
Longitude(dd): -73.693261

Watershed Area: 5.4 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
22.45% 9.56% 67.62% 0.37%

4.93%

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1990
2000

Total Population

2118
2517
Population Density (ind./km2)
391.41
465.04
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
1
1
1
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
6.01 cm
6.02 cm
6.28 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
0.0091
12SEP00
0.0091
2001
05SEP01
0.0051
05SEP01
0.0051
2002
30JUL02

0.0063

30JUL02
0.0063

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 7.6   7.8   7.4  
ALKL 80   103   78  
COND 763   869   674  
CA 56   .   .  
MG 16   19   14  
NA 65   70   53  
K 20   20   14  
CL 131   159   113  
SO4 70   60   44  
NH4N 0.08   0.02   0.1  
NO3N 8.9   4.5   3.6  
ORGN 0.7   0.6   0.5  
SKN 0.7   0.6   0.6  
TKN 0.9   0.8   0.9  
SRP 0.1   0.2   0.1  
TDP 0.1   0.2   0.1  
TP 0.1   0.2   0.1  
DOC 4442   4277   5339  
BDOC .   592   671  
TSS 1.2 B 1.2 B 3.3  
TSS05 0.8 B 0.8   2.2  
TSS10 0.09 B 0.3   0.4  
TSS20 0.2   0.4   0.6  
VSS 0.5   0.5   1  
VSS05 0.4   0.5   0.9  
VSS10 0.008 B 0.09   0.1  
VSS20 0.05   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
0.0091
2001
05DEP01
0.0051
07MAR01
0.1163
2002
29JUL02
0.0090
21FEB02
0.0306
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 0.004 HE 0.009 E 0.0017 HE 0.018   0.007 E 0.016  
PHE 0.004 NHE 0.05   0.012 HE 0.1   0.04 E 0.04 E
ANT 0.0011 NHE 0.0019 E 0.006 HE 0.1   0.002 E 0.01 E
2MP 0.003 NHE 0.03   0.0017 HE 0 NE 0.003 E 0.013 E
1MP 0.0012 NHE 0.017   0.0018 HE 0 NE 0.003 E 0.01 E
FLR 0.006 HE 0.07   0.015 HE 0.2   0.06   0.04  
PYR 0.0008 NHE 0.05   0.008 HE 0.1   0.03 E 0.02 E
BAA 0.004 HE 0.007 E 0.001 HE 0.017   0.009 E 0.011  
CHR 0.0012 NHE 0.018 E 0.003 HE 0.08   0.019   0.015 E
BBF 0.0009 NHE 0.017   0.003 HE 0.08   0.017   0.02  
BKF 0.0006 NHE 0.012   0.0017 HE 0.06   0.015   0.016  
BAP 0.0004 NHE 0.006   0.0019 HE 0.04   0.009 E 0.017  
HHCB 0.6 HE 0.2   1.2   0.4   0.3   0.4  
AHTN 0.3 HE 0.09   0.5   0.1   0.1   0.1  
CAF 0.2   0.05   0.019   0.008 E 0.1   0.2 E
bCOP 0.1 HE 0.4   0.08   0.1   0.09   0.2  
EPI 0.014 HE 0.016   0.004   0.007   0.016   0.04 E
CHO 0.4   1   0.5   0.7   1.1   0.9  
aCOP 0.08   0.7   0.07   0.3   0.2   0.2  
aONE 0.01 HE 0.04   0.03 HE 0.02   0.04 E 0.06 E
bONE 0.03 HE 0.1   0.04   0.04   0.1   0.1  
SNOL 0.04 HE 0.07   0.04   0.09   0.1   0.1  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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