Snapshot Day 10/12/05 Data
(Salt Front RM 53.2)
RIVER MILE 127
Stuyvesant Landing, Columbia County
Latitude 47, Longitude 73
Location: Sandy Point of Stuyvesant Landing, Columbia Co. The sandy point is just
south of the parking lot
Area: Forested site with narrow sandy beach - used for picnics and swimming.
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 95%; beach 5%
Sampling Site: beach, mostly forested, some fallen treees
Plants in area: 2% of entire water sampling area is covered with plants
Water celery
Water plants
2%
Tidal -Land
plants
Water depth: 2 feet
River Bottom : sandy bottom
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
3:40 PM
53F
11.7 C
NE
4:10 PM
51F
10.6 C
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
4-6 beaufort
Water wavey
overcast
Rained and continued to rain harder during sampling
3:30 PM
59F
15C
Turbidity
4:15 PM
60 JTUs
Chlorophyll
3:15 PM
0.7-1.0
Cargo ship
came through
– large waves
did 2nd test
2-5
4:00
8.2 mg/L
15C
85%
3:30 PM
7.2
7.3
7.1
Chemical
DO
(LaMotte
Colorimeter)
pH – pen
Sight tube
Phosphate
Nitrate
4:05 PM
4:10 PM
0.11 ppm
0.00
Alkalinity
Salinity
Fish Catch
4:07 PM
82 ppm
Number
Caught
Species
Tides
3:30 Pm
4:30 PM
Falling
Falling slowly
South
Ebbing
3:15 PM
Cargo freighter
Possible
operator error
CPUE
Seine
Industrial
Champ
Intermarine
Flock 3 ~ 20
geese on
water
Nourthbound
Currents
Traffic
Other Items
Core
Flock 1 ~
80 geese
flying S
Flock 2 ~ 50
geese – flying
S
Light