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Basin: Upper Schuylkill Basin 

Location
Station number45
descriptionJust upstream of confluence with Little Schuylkill off SR2020
Latitude (decimal)40.7044
Longitude (decimal)-75.9974
Land Use
Watershed area (km2)27
Percent developed0.3
Percent in agriculture34.7
Percent forested60
Percent wetland or water1.0
Percent in quarries or mining0.0
Chemistry
Nitrate (mg/L)5.5
Total Dissolved Phosphorus (mg/L)0.024
pH7.4
Conductivity (μmhos)121
Alkalinity (as mg/L CaCO3)10
Macroinvertebrate Data
years sampled2002
MAIS score13.1
water quality based on MAIS scoregood
1st most abundant macroinvertebrateOligochaeta (aquatic earthworms)
2nd most abundant macroinvertebrateChironomidae (midges)
3rd most abundant macroinvertebrateEphemerellidae (spiny crawler mayflies)
4th most abundant macroinvertebrateHydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies)
5th most abundant macroinvertebrateEmpididae (aquatic dance flies)
6th most abundant macroinvertebrateNaididae (naidid worms)
7th most abundant macroinvertebrateHeptageniidae (flatheaded mayflies)
8th most abundant macroinvertebrateElmidae (riffle beetles)
9th most abundant macroinvertebratePsephenidae (water penny beetles)
10th most abundant macroinvertebratePhilopotamidae (fingernet caddisflies)

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