Snapshot Day 10/14/10 Data
(Salt Front RM 36)
RIVER MILE 92
Kingston Point Park, Kingston, Ulster County
GPS Latitude 4155.6 N Longitude 7357.90 W
Steve & Julie Noble, Forsyth Nature Center
Laura Conner, Minnewaska State Park
Karen Knowlton, Bailey Middle School – 8th grade, 78 students
Location: Kingston Point Beach, beach and parking lot
Area: Used for picnics, boating, fishing, swimming
Surrounding Land Use: 40% forested; 30% beach; 30% industrial/commercial
Sampling Site: Beach area - shoreline is sandy with some bricks, banks are altered,
collected wood debris in the area
Plants in area: plants in area were not growing in 1st 10 ft. but rather were washed up on
the shore. Of the plants 20% is water chestnut; 9% duckweed, 1% spatterdock. One group
also noted soft stemmed bulrush but this was not confirmed by
Water depth: 50.8 cm and decreasing to 0 cm
River Bottom : sandy with bricks, some SAV
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
9:53 AM
10:45 AM
53.6F
59F
12C
15C
53.6F
12C
1-3 kts
South wind
3-5 kts
By afternoon had turned mostly cloudy
12:25 PM
Reading 2
Comments
Wind Speed
Beaufort #1
Cloud Cover
Partly cloudy in
AM
No precipitation
Cold and dry
Shoreline
3 ft. out
Thermometer
Thermometer
Shoreline
Laser
3 ft. out Laser
53.6F avg
12 C
59F
15 C
55.4F
13C
60F
15.6C
53.1F
11.7 C
11:20 AM
59F
15 C
53.6F
12C
56F
13.3C
55F
12.8C
12:50 PM
59F
57.2F
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
9:53 AM
10:25 AM
51.6F
Water calm
Turbidity short
Site tube
15 C
14C
yes
10:25 AM
50 JTU
11:15 AM
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
ampules
pH – pen
Phosphate
chemets
Salinity Quantab
Fish Catch
30’seine X 3 ft. –
90 ft. pull – 9
runs
10:20 AM - 3
seines – CPUE
.43
11:22 AM – 3
seines – CPUE
.43
12:20 PM 3 seines – CPUE
1.53
12:50 PM
10:30 AM
60 JTU
60 JTU
80 JTU
1.0
10:25 AM
11:20 AM
12:50 PM
10:25 AM
11:14 Am
12:50 PM
10:25 AM
11:20 AM
12:25 PM
11:15 AM
8.0 mg/L
7 mg/L
9 mg/L
7.0
7.0
7.0
0.1 ppm
0 ppm
0.2 ppm
<28 ppm Cl
Number
Caught- 22
Species - 4
4
Spottail
shiner
2
Spottail
shiner
3 inches
Aquatic snails
2
1
7
2.5 inches
5 inches
3.5 inches
Scuds
Midge Larvae
9:48 AM
10:40 AM
11:35 AM
12:15 PM
12:35 PM
Banded Killi
White Perch
Spottail
Shiner
Golden
Shiner
50.8 cm
29.21 cm
10.16 cm
9.53 cm
8.89 cm
9:55 AM
10:30 AM
Rec. Sail
Sailboat
Black Dog
Victoria
6
Tides
Currents
Traffic
10.9C
12C
15C
15C
<35 ppm
salinity
Largest Size
75% saturated
68%
90 %
Macroinvertebrates
Zebra
Mussels
3.5 inches
falling
falling
falling
falling
Southbound
Southbound
10:35 AM
11:00 AM
11:35 AM
Other Items
At the seining
station we found
Core
12:50 AM
~ 50 ring
billed ducks
Two
unidentified
jelly like blobs
with green
hard mass in
the center – no
movement
4 inches total
length
Cruise ship
American
Star
Barge & tug
RTC 120
North - empty
Justine
North - empry
McCallister
Fishing boat
Kavaldos 3
South
Lots of natural and man made debris
Steve Stanne noted these were probably the
seeds of arrow arum, which have a coat of
gelatinous mucilage and drift away from the
senescing (growing old) plants in the fall.
Lots of brick
pieces
Grain size10 % pebbles
80% sand
10% silt