Snapshot Day 10/2/07 Data
(Salt Front RM 78.2)
RIVER MILE 55
Little Stony Point
Rich Parisio, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Allissa Perrault – Wappinger Jr. High School
(21 students) 8th grade
Location: Little Stony Point beach, Cold Spring, Putnam County
Area: Trees, large sandy beach
Surrounding Land Use: 50% forested, 50% beach
Sampling Site: Pipes discharge from the road into the river (2 ft. diameter), beach area
Plants in area: no plants in water
Plants In Tidal Shallows: 50% water celery; 50% water chestnut
Water depth: 3 ft.
River Bottom – sandy bottom
ITEM
Physical
Air
Temperature
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather
recently
Water
Temperature
Water
Turbidity
Turbidity tube
Chlorophyll
Chemical
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
9:45 AM
15C
60F
Beaufort force
#1
11:15 AM
22C
73F
Beaufort
Force #3
9:45 AM
11:00 AM
Partly cloudy
Unusually warm temperatures, no rain, humid, misty cloudy
mornings
9:45 AM
13.5C
56.3F
F
50.9 F
10.5C
C
50.9 F
10.5C
10:15 AM 11.0C
51.8F
F
11.0C
51.8F
C
10.5C
50.9F
10:45 AM 10.5C
50.9 F
F
11.0C
51.8F
C
10.5C
50.9F
11:00 AM 13.5C
56.3 F
F
10.5C
50.9F
C
10.5C
50.9F
calm
11:10 AM 80 cm
11:20 AM
0.1
DO
(ampules)
pH
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
Drop count test
kit
Fish Catch
Seine net 85
feet , X 4 ft.
3 hauls total
10:3011:30 AM
11C
5.5mg/L
6.0 mg/L
7.0 mg/L
8.5 mg/L
8.6
8.6
10:59AM
1.4
0.1
.0008%
11:30 AM
0.1
0.1
Species
Number
Caught
180
9
100
37
23
25
9
8
4
4
1
GRAND
TOTAL
Tom Lake
5 male
4 female
400
10:3011:30
Blueback
herring
CPUE
(yoy)
Banded
adult
killifish
Striped
yoy
Bass
White Perch Adult
yoy
Spottail
adult
shiner
Atlantic
adult
Silverside
Tesselated
Adult
darter
Gizzard
yearling
shad
Hogchoker 3 adult
1 yoy
Atlantic
yoy
menhaden
Bluecrab
All yoy
5.0 ppt
salinity
21.9C (71F)
50%
saturated
55%
saturated
62%
saturated
75%
saturated
8.6
0.43 ppt
avg.
Seine
yoy =
young of
year
Tides
Currents
Traffic
9:45 AM
10:30 AM
11:12 AM
1:00 PM
21 cm
30 cm
35 cm
80 cm
rising
rising
rising
10:10 AM
11:00 AM
Fishing –
Barge
Southbound
Northbound
20 cm
length
Slight H2S smell
Common –
Pebbles
Rare – clay, mud,
leaves, wood &
oyster shells
Other Items
Core
Description
Abundant
– sand &
gravel
No oil or
oxidized
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