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Basin: Perkiomen Creek Basin 

Location
Station number87
descriptionAbove Old Sumneytown Pike
Latitude (decimal)40.3047
Longitude (decimal)-75.4258
Land Use
Watershed area (km2)3
Percent developed10.4
Percent in agriculture58.6
Percent forested29
Percent wetland or water0.1
Percent in quarries or mining0.0
Chemistry
Nitrate (mg/L)1.4
Total Dissolved Phosphorus (mg/L)0.046
pH8.2
Conductivity (μmhos)369
Alkalinity (as mg/L CaCO3)53
Macroinvertebrate Data
years sampled2005
MAIS score11.3
water quality based on MAIS scorefair
1st most abundant macroinvertebrateChloroperlidae (green stoneflies)
2nd most abundant macroinvertebratePerlodidae (perlodid stoneflies)
3rd most abundant macroinvertebrateChironomidae (midges)
4th most abundant macroinvertebrateEmpididae (aquatic dance flies)
5th most abundant macroinvertebrateOligochaeta (aquatic earthworms)
6th most abundant macroinvertebratePsephenidae (water penny beetles)
7th most abundant macroinvertebrateElmidae (riffle beetles)
8th most abundant macroinvertebrateHydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies)
9th most abundant macroinvertebrateUenoidae (stonecase caddisflies)
10th most abundant macroinvertebrateSimuliidae (black flies)

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