Snapshot Day 10/8/09 Data
(Salt Front RM 60.3)
RIVER MILE 92
Kingston Point Park, Kingston
GPS Latitude 4155.6 N Longitude 7357.80 W
Steve & Julie Noble, Forsyth Nature Center
Crosby Elementary School – 5th grade, 20 students
Participant Sketch of Site
Location: Kingston Point Beach, beach and parking lot
Area: Used for picnics, boating, fishing, swimming
Surrounding Land Use: 20% forested; 80% beach
Sampling Site: shoreline is sandy with some bricks, banks are altered, collected wood
debris in the area
Plants in area: 10% of the area is covered in plants – 5% water celery, 5% water
chestnut
Water depth: 5 feet in depth – gradual slope on the beach
River Bottom : sandy bottom
ITEM
Time
Physical
Air Temperature
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
11:20 AM
70F
Beaufort #3
North
clear
No precipitation
Very windy, rain yesterday AM
1:45 PM
60F
15.5 C
60F
15.5 C
60F avg
15.5 C
yes
11:30 AM
Avg 75 JTU
Water calm
Turbidity
Site tube
Chlorophyll
Chemical
10:30 AM
Reading 1
70 JTU
80 JTU
0.1
Reading 2
Least amount
Comments
DO
ampules
pH – pen
1:30 PM AM
9.0 mg/L
1:40 PM
• 9.0
8.8
Phosphate
chemets
Salinity
Fish Catch
20’seine
12:00 PM
0.1 ppm
Quantab
Number
Caught
11
28 ppm Cl
Species
Currents
Traffic
Other Items
Core
89% saturated
• meter not
working these rates are
too high
Largest Size
Seine
Banded
killifish
Spottail
shiner
Striped Bass
Blue Crab
5 cm
27.5 cm
50 cm
67.5 cm
5 inches max.
White
Southbound
10:15 AM
11:45 PM
American
Star
4 sailboats
Barge
Red & Black
Southbound
½ full
3 migrating
butterflies!
14 cm total
length
2 cm top
brown
12 cm bottom 2 distinct
grayish color layers
with small
brick pieces
present
1
Tides
15.5C
1
1
11:15 AM
11:45 AM
12:15 PM
12:45 PM
1:50 PM
5 inches
8 inches
4 cm
rising
rising
rising