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Basin: Southwest Schuylkill Basin 

Location
Station number124
descriptionAbove confluence with French Creek
Latitude (decimal)40.1722
Longitude (decimal)-75.6959
Land Use
Watershed area (km2)9
Percent developed2.0
Percent in agriculture24.8
Percent forested72
Percent wetland or water0.1
Percent in quarries or mining0.0
Chemistry
Nitrate (mg/L)1.1
Total Dissolved Phosphorus (mg/L) 0.010
pH 7.7
Conductivity (μmhos)126
Alkalinity (as mg/L CaCO3) 21
Macroinvertebrate Data
years sampled2007
MAIS score10.5
water quality based on MAIS scorefair
1st most abundant macroinvertebrateChironomidae (midges)
2nd most abundant macroinvertebrateEphemerellidae (spiny crawler mayflies)
3rd most abundant macroinvertebrateOligochaeta (aquatic earthworms)
4th most abundant macroinvertebrateHydropsychidae (common netspinner caddisflies)
5th most abundant macroinvertebrateSimuliidae (black flies)
6th most abundant macroinvertebrateTipulidae (crane flies)
7th most abundant macroinvertebrateElmidae (riffle beetles)
8th most abundant macroinvertebratePsephenidae (water penny beetles)
9th most abundant macroinvertebrateEmpididae (aquatic dance flies)
10th most abundant macroinvertebrateNemouridae (nemourid stoneflies)

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