land use and water q uality in the hudson river
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Land Use and Water Q uality in the Hudson River. Amy Gao GIS in Water Resources November 16, 2010. Hudson River in New York. New York ranked 18 th among the states in toxic water pollution. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Land Use and Water Quality in the Hudson RiverAmy GaoGIS in Water ResourcesNovember 16, 2010
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Hudson River in New York• New York ranked 18th
among the states in toxic water pollution.
• The Hudson River Watershed ranked 29th out all US waters for receiving the greatest amount of toxic pollution.
• The Hudson River Watershed ranked 2nd in New York State for receiving the most toxic pollution.
Pollution around the Port of Albany,four decades ago
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Pollution Sources•River sediments•Metals:
▫Industrial and domestic wastewater discharges
▫Runoff (CSO’s)•Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons (PAH)▫Automobile exhaust▫Industrial emissions▫Burning wood,
charcoal and tobacco
NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program
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Objective
How does land use along the Hudson River affect the metal and PAH concentrations?
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Land Use Along Hudson RiverLegendLandUseMergedLANDUSE
Bare exposed rock
Bays and estuaries
Beaches
Commercial and Services
Confined feeding operations
Cropland and pasture
Deciduous forest land
Evergreen forest land
Forested wetland
Herbaceous Rangeland
Industrial
Industrial and commercial complexes
Lakes
Mixed forest land
Mixed urban or built-up land
Nonforested wetland
Null area -- no land use assigned
Orchards, groves, vineyards, nurseries..
Other agricultural land
Other urban or built-up land
Reservoirs
Residential
Sandy areas other than beaches
Shrub-brushland rangeland
Streams and canals
Strip mines, quarries and gravel pits
Transitional areas
Transportation, communications and services
•13.7% is urban, industrial, and commercial land
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Lower Hudson River Basin
Geographical and hydrological idea of drainage into the Hudson River
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Metals in Hudson River
Arsenic – 30%
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Cadmium – 10% Chromium – 3%
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Copper – 61% Lead – 43%
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Mercury – 72%
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Metals Summary
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
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Conclusion•Highly urban and industrialized areas
correlate with higher concentrations of metals
•Highly urban and industrialized areas correlate with higher concentrations of PAH
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Future Work• Convert land use polygons
into raster data
• Use the “Extract by Mask” Spatial Analysis tool to extract the cells of the land use raster that correspond to the area of the Hudson River Basin
• More accurate correlations between land use and contaminants