Snapshot Day 10/18/11 Data
(Salt Front RM 35.7)
RIVER MILE 32
Lewis & Engel Park
Bridget Baumann & Artie Carlucci, Ossining HS Environmental Club
9th-12th grade – 32 students
4110’N - 7352’W
Location: Wading beach at Lewis J. Engell Park, Ossining, NY
Area: Beachfront area - paved sidewalk, rock wall lining the river, grass
Surrounding Land Use: 30% beach; 25% industrial/commercial; 5% Urban/Residential,
5% forested; 35% rocky and grassy
Sampling Site: bulkhead lines the shoreline with pier, rock wall, beach, riprap, rocky,
weedy, used for picnics and boats. Pipe enters the river North of the sample site.
Plants in area: none - although noted some algea
Water depth: 2-3 feet deep
River Bottom –rocky then sandy deeper
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather last 3
days
Water
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
Beaufort #2
9AM
54F
12C
4-6 kts
Mostly
cloudy
4-7 mph
South wind
11 AM
Partly cloudy
No rain
Rained Sunday and Monday night
Choppy
Water
Temperature
9:15 AM
9:30 AM
Turbidity
9:05 AM
0-40 JTU
>100 JTU
0-40 JTU
Chemical
DO ( drop count)
pH (indicator sol.)
12:30 PM
9:15 AM
8.0 mg/L
6
7
6
2 ppt
0 ppt
0 times 3 reads
2 ppm X3
Species
Salinityhydrometer
Nitrates
Phosphates
Fish Catch
Quantity
Tides
Currents
Shipping
Core Description
10:00 AM
Water depth 3 ft.
Observations
12:30 PM
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
Number
Caught
40
7
3
1
51
8:30 AM
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
3 replicates –
all the same
3 replicates –
all the same
60 JTU avg.
64 F
17 C
20  C
Herring
Silverside
Spottail Shiner
Striped Bass
Diversity
0 cm
40 cm
62 cm
Oil Barge
Ferry
Length
Abundant
3 inches
Sand & gravel
No smell
or oxidized
top
Seagulls & geese
20  C
80%
6.5
Avg. 1 ppt
Avg - 2 ppm
4
Rising
Rising
Southbound
Across to
Haverstraw
Common
clay
Pebbles
empty
people
Rare
Mud