Snapshot Day 10/12/05 Data
(Salt Front RM 53.2)
RIVER MILE 123
River Front Park, Coxsackie
Latitude N 42 degrees 22.2' Longitude W 73 degrees 47.756"
Location: River front park with parking area, boat launch, picnic
Area: Parkign area and cement boat launch with fishing and picnic area
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 15%, Beach 30%, parking area, cement boat launch,
picnic area and fishing 55%
Sampling Site: Beach, covered with vegetation, rip rap altered banks
Plants in area: 10% of the sampling area has plants in the water
Water milfoil
Water Celery
Tidal Shallows
Arrow Arum
Bur-reed
Dotted Smartweed
Tidal Marshes
Jewelweed
Purple Loosestrife
Spotted Joe-Pye
Weed
Water depth:
River Bottom –rocky bottom
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
9:00 AM
55 F
11:00 AM
51 F
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
19-30 km/hr SW
overcast
Rain – heavy at times
rain and drizzle and cloudy
10:30 AM 58.5 F
14.7 C
Water choppy
TurbiditySight Tube
9:00 AM
8 cm
6 cm
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO (drop count)
pH
10:30
1.0
0.1
9:30
9:30
11.0 mg/L
7.7 meter
7.6 meter
14.7C
6.5 paper
100% saturated
Species
CPUE
Seine
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
Fish Catch
No
salinity
Number
7 cm
50 ft. (.25 inch
mesh)
Caught
2
2
8
2
TOTALS
9:30
9:45
10:30
Tides
Currents
Traffic
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
Other Items
15
1
10
Alewife
American Eel
Blueback
Herring
Banded
Killifish
Pull 305
Pull 229
Pull 457
0.05
0.044
0.022
#1
#2
#3
9:00 AM
31 cm
10:30 AM 74 cm
Rising
Barely moved a stick so no measure.
Tide was coming in, but flood waters were moving out.
Barge &
Tugboat
Veronica
Evelyn &
Crow
Sailboat
Motorboat
1
12 mallards
cormorant
1 ovenbird
Northbound –
loaded
Southbound
Southbound
134 gulls
Train cars
20 Canadian
geese