Snapshot Day 10/12/05 Data
(Salt Front RM 53.2)
RIVER MILE 19W
Alpine Boat Basin
Latitude 4057’N, Longitude 7355 ‘W
Location: North end of the Alpine Boat Basin, adjacent to a sandy beach area
Area: Used for picnics, boats, seining and education programs
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 50% (at the foot of the Palisades, Man made Sandy
Beach 5%, Recreationally developed boat mooring & picnic table 45%
Sampling Site: sandy beach, no water vegetation, sandy area, bulkhead and riprap on
shoreline, no pipe outlets into river but a waterfall and a stream from the top of the
Palisades entered the river at the southern end of the site.
Plants in area: no plants in the water
Water depth:
River Bottom – sandy/rocky bottom with no natural vegetation growing in or near the
water
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
11:10 AM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
14C
57 F
North
6-11 km/hr
Light breeze
overcast
heavy rain all day
Heavy rain most of the past 3 days
12:15
64 F
18C
Turbidity
12:25
60 JTU
Site tube
Chlorophyll
9:30
1.0
2 samples
taken – both
read the same
Chemical
DO
1:05
5.0 mg/L
18C
pH
12:50
7.0 pH paper
8.0 tablet test
kit
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
12:30
12:35
12:45
2.0 mg/L
0.5 mg/L
6-10 ppt
50%
Hydrometer –
uncertain of
Fish Catch
Number
Caught
Tides
9-11AM
11-1:30
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
11:20
Currents
Traffic
12:10
Other Items
Species
CPUE
accuracy
Seine
Falling
Rising
0.74 knots ebb
0.98 knots ebb
Barge
Small white
yacht
Orange
containers
Northbound
Southbound