Snapshot Day 10/12/05 Data
(Salt Front RM 53.2)
RIVER MILE 76
Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County
Location: Near the pavilion structure just south of Fall Kill mouth at Waryas Park.
Sampling taken off the riprap
Area: Site is a recreational park, used for picnics, public events, walking etc.
Surrounding Land Use: Greenway Trail is on one side of the riprap
Sampling Site: Shoreline riprap, collected wood debris in area. Fallkill Creek enters the
river very close to the site
Plants in area: Water side is muddy with water celery patches (but this was not visible
on Snapshot Day)
Tidal
water celery
Shallows
Plants
Tidal
Marshes
Water depth: 51 ft. at low tide (per the nautical chart)
River Bottom – rocky with silt
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
10:45 AM
14C
52 F
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Turbidity
Reading 2
Comments
Water choppy
Steady-light to heavy Rain
rain, rain, rain and cooler temperatures
11:00 AM 62 F
17C
12:10
40 JTU
Sight tube
12:15
0.5
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
11:00
* 0 mg/L
17C
(Test tabs)
* As a quality control all students and educator took a reading and all got a zero
0xygen. Should try these testtabs in another location to verify accuracy.
pH
11:00
8
Test tabs
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
11:30
0.9 ppm
1.0 ppm
Fish Catch
Number
Caught
Species
CPUE
Tides
10:45 AM
11:15 AM
12:00 noon
Quantab
testtabs
Seine
Falling
Falling
Falling
11:00 AM Ebbing
Currents
• While the current at the shoreline was moving in the same direction as the
main channel, the powerful run off from the Fall Kill certainly affected the
speed of the current at the Hudson shoreline at our site and, I am sure, the
contents of the water samples as well.
10:30
US Coast
South
Traffic
Guard
Other Items
Students observed blue piece of pollution in the river and noted
how the current was pushing it around. The run off from the
Fall kill created a little eddy and the blue item stayed in our
view for almost 20 minutes. It would appear to move closer to
shore and then move out again. I am not sure what it was – it
looked like some sort of plastic from a float or something.