Snapshot Day 10/7/08 Data
(Salt Front RM 63.4)
RIVER MILE 52.5
West Point South Dock, Orange County
Mary Chabonneau, Constitution Marsh Audubon Cneter
Tricia Willis and Jane Anne McCaw, West Point Middle School 7th grade – 57
students
Location: South Dock at West Point right on the water
Area: dock
Surrounding Land Use:
Sampling Site: shoreline is riprap,
Plants in area:
Tidal Shallows:
Water depth:
River Bottom –
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Physical
Air Temperature
12:10
16.2C
61.2 F
12:40 PM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Water
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Turbidity
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
(meter)
pH – meter
Phosphate method
8048
Nitrate (method
8171)
Alkalinity
Salinity - meter
Fish Catch
Seine & eel pot
Comments
14.8C
58.6 F
Beaufort force #4
From NE
Clear
Choppy
Heavy rain and colder temperatures prior to today
12:40 PM 18.7C
12:50 PM
18.9C
2:40 PM
37 inches
12:58 PM
8.3 mg/L
17.8C
85%
1:05
12:13 PM
7.5
5.8 mg/L*
7.4 average
1:20 PM
7.4 mg.L*
7.3
*seems to be
an error
*seems to be
an error
12:58 PM
Seine #1
Number
Caught
12:40 PM
0.34 ppt
Species
0.34 ppt
Seine #2
Number
Caught
1:15 PM
Total of 2
seines
1
2
10
7
18
9
1
44
1
5
5
1
1
TOTAL SEINE
Tides
Currents
Traffic
American Eel
Alewife
Striped bass
Spottail Shiner
Blueback
Herring
Pumpkinseed
Tesselated
Darters
White Perch
Yellow perch
Bluecrab
Hog Choker
Mummichog
Banded
Killifish
Dragonfly
nymph
Barnacles
105
Noon
12:16
12:25
12:40
12:55
6.89 cm
7.09 cm
7.48 cm
8.86 cm
9.06 cm
12:22
12:55
1:05 PM
Ebb
Ebb
Ebb
1
10
2
2
20
7
18
2
11
1
44
1
2
2
1
18
88
2
7
7
2
18
1
2
(untallied)
81
186
Rising
Rising
Rising
Rising
3.8 ft/sec
.07 kts