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Crabby Tributary 3

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Basin: Southwest Schuylkill Basin 

Location
Station number118
descriptionWalnut Lane, eastern tributary
Latitude (decimal)40.0506
Longitude (decimal)-75.4671
Land Use
Watershed area (km2)0
Percent developed45.7
Percent in agriculture0.6
Percent forested52
Percent wetland or water0.0
Percent in quarries or mining0.0
Chemistry
Nitrate (mg/L)2.6
Total Dissolved Phosphorus (mg/L)0.020
pH7.8
Conductivity (μmhos)396
Alkalinity (as mg/L CaCO3)37
Macroinvertebrate Data
years sampled2007
MAIS score11.1
water quality based on MAIS scorefair
1st most abundant macroinvertebrateCapniidae/Leuctridae (winter and spring stoneflies)
2nd most abundant macroinvertebrateSimuliidae (black flies)
3rd most abundant macroinvertebrateChironomidae (midges)
4th most abundant macroinvertebrateBaetidae (small minnow mayflies)
5th most abundant macroinvertebratePhilopotamidae (fingernet caddisflies)
6th most abundant macroinvertebrateNemouridae (nemourid stoneflies)
7th most abundant macroinvertebrate Hydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies)
8th most abundant macroinvertebrateChloroperlidae (green stoneflies)
9th most abundant macroinvertebrateOligochaeta (aquatic earthworms)
10th most abundant macroinvertebratePlanariidae (flatworms)

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