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Site #93: Hosensack Creek

At Treichlers Road

Basin: Perkiomen Creek Basin

Location
Site number93
DescriptionAt Treichlers Road
Latitude (decimal)40.4384
Longitude (decimal)-75.5161
Land Use
Watershed area (km2)43
Percent developed2.0
Percent in agriculture47.3
Percent forested46
Percent wetland or water1.6
Percent in quarries or mining0.0
Chemistry
Nitrate (mg/L)2.2
Total dissolved phosphorus (mg/L)0.012
pH8.1
Conductivity (μmhos)244
Alkalinity (as mg/L CaCO3)53
Macroinvertebrate Data
Years sampled2005
MAIS score17.0
Water quality based on MAIS scoregood
1st most abundant macroinvertebrateChironomidae (midges)
2nd most abundant macroinvertebrateTipulidae (crane flies)
3rd most abundant macroinvertebrateEphemerellidae (spiny crawler mayflies)
4th most abundant macroinvertebrateElmidae (riffle beetles)
5th most abundant macroinvertebrateHydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies)
6th most abundant macroinvertebrateBaetidae (small minnow mayflies)
7th most abundant macroinvertebrateUenoidae (stonecase caddisflies)
8th most abundant macroinvertebrateOligochaeta (aquatic earthworms)
9th most abundant macroinvertebratePsephenidae (water penny beetles)
10th most abundant macroinvertebratePlanariidae (flatworms)