Snapshot Day 10/12/05 Data
(Salt Front RM 53.2)
RIVER MILE 41
Steamboat Dock Park, Verplanck, Westchester
Latitude N 4114’.56” Longitude W 7357’.53"
Location: Steamboat Dock Park
Area: located in a small cove between a point and a bulkhead – sampled approximately
30 ft. from south end of dock/parking lot
Surrounding Land Use: Urban/residential 50% , Forested 5%, beach 10%, parking lot
35% bulkhead
Sampling Site: Parking lot, grassy park, beach, riprap, metal bulkhead, piping entering
river ~ 12 inches diameter, south of sampling site about 20 feet from river (storm drain,
then pipe , then beach and then river)
Plants in area: No plants in water
Water depth: 6-8 feet
River Bottom – rocky, muddy bottom
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Physical
Air Temperature
11:15 AM
13C
55.4 F
Northerly
12:15 PM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Turbidity
Chlorophyll
Core
Chemical
DO
(YSI Meter)
pH
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Comments
13C
55.4 F
Some white caps on water
3 on chart
overcast
Rain heavy flooding conditions, sometimes heavy, then light,
then heavy again
Torrential heavy rain from tropic storm – flooding – high in
70s
10:35 AM 71 F
10:55 AM
69.1 F
22C
20.6C
11:20
11:50
69 F
68.2 F
20.4C
20.1C
11:00
1.1 m
secchi
12:00
3 cm
grey/black
0.7
9cm light
brown
10:35
7.0 mg/L
22C
80.3%
11:45
7.7
7.8
Indicator sol.
11:50
68 mg/L
Salinity
Fish Catch
10:45
Number
Caught
8 (2-3
inch)
2 (4-5
inch)
3 (3-4
inch)
85 (13inch)
0.9 ppt
Species
Seine #1
Seine #2
Seine #3
10:30
11:00
11:15
Tides
20 ft net/ 30-40 ft
pull
Currents
CPUE
meter
Seine
56 fish
37 fish
5
0.0765
0.05
.009
40 ft. pull
40 ft. pull
30 ft. pull
10:30 AM
11:00
23cm
20 cm
11:00
11:14
11:30
11:45
40 cm (reset)
38 cm
35 cm
32 cm
Falling
Falling – moved meter stick out
deeper
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
11:00
0.18 ft./sec.
Ebb
0.26 ft./sec.
Ebb
Coral Sea
0.11 knots
American
Spirit
Southbound
Traffic
Barge tug
Other Items
Cruise
ship
3- 30 ft.
fishing
boats
Birds
Beach
Items
Striped bass
white perch
Atlantic
silversides
Menhaden
Used
flowmeter
0.15 knots
Northbound
Loaded/oil
tanker
Southbound
20 Canadian
Geese
Eel grass
fragments
(probably wild
celery)
1 Ring-Billed
Gull
Water
chestnut seed
pods
Small white
clam shell