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Stony Run @ Pikeland Ave

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Basin: Southwest Schuylkill Basin 

Location
Station number122
descriptionDownstream from bridge
Latitude (decimal)40.1668
Longitude (decimal)-75.5488
Land Use
Watershed area (km2)11
Percent developed5.6
Percent in agriculture80.9
Percent forested13
Percent wetland or water0.1
Percent in quarries or mining0.0
Chemistry
Nitrate (mg/L)3.4
Total Dissolved Phosphorus (mg/L)0.039
pH7.8
Conductivity (μmhos)245
Alkalinity (as mg/L CaCO3)37
Macroinvertebrate Data
years sampled2007
MAIS score4.6
water quality based on MAIS scorepoor
1st most abundant macroinvertebrateChironomidae (midges)
2nd most abundant macroinvertebrateOligochaeta (aquatic earthworms)
3rd most abundant macroinvertebrateElmidae (riffle beetles)
4th most abundant macroinvertebrateTipulidae (crane flies)
5th most abundant macroinvertebrateHydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies)
6th most abundant macroinvertebratePhilopotamidae (fingernet caddisflies)
7th most abundant macroinvertebrateEmpididae (aquatic dance flies)
8th most abundant macroinvertebrateSimuliidae (black flies)
9th most abundant macroinvertebrateNematoda (nematodes)
10th most abundant macroinvertebratePsephenidae (water penny beetles)

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