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Continuous Water Quality, Suspended Solids, and Enterococci Data from the Harlem River, Bronx, New York, Jan 2021- Sept 2021

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2021-01-12
End Date
2021-09-30

Citation

Fisher, S.C., Behrens, R.R., and Smith, A.M., 2023, Continuous water quality, suspended solids, and Enterococci data from the Harlem River, Bronx, New York, Jan 2021- Sept 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MEHM63.

Summary

This data set contains continuous water-surface elevation and water-quality (temperature, specific conductance, salinity, and turbidity) data recorded at 6- and 15-minute intervals, respectively, from two sites in the Bronx on the Harlem River -- Roberto Clemente State Park and Mill Pond Park. Water elevation was monitored every second to detect changes indicative of boat wakes expected to resuspend bed sediment from nearby alcoves. Boat wake detection triggered the collection of 1-second interval water elevation and 1-minute interval turbidity data. In addition to continuous data, grab samples for fecal indicator bacteria (Enterococci) and total suspended solids were collected weekly from - March to September, 2021.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Shawn C Fisher
Originator :
Shawn C Fisher, Riley R Behrens, Ashley M. Smith
Metadata Contact :
Shawn C Fisher
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
New York Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
New York Water Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Harlem_River_NY_WQ_2021.xml
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Harlem_River_NY_WQ_2021_Discrete.csv 22.22 KB text/csv
Harlem_River_NY_WQ_2021_CWQ_RCSP.csv 14.64 MB text/csv
Harlem_River_NY_WQ_2021_CWQ_MPP.csv 17.61 MB text/csv
Harlem_River_NY_WQ_2021.xlsx 38.56 MB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

Data were collected to identify a possible correlation between water elevation, turbidity, and fecal indicator bacteria to better understand changes in water-quality and human health risk at points of public access on the Harlem River.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9MEHM63

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