Water resources of Monroe County, New York, water years 2000-02: Atmospheric deposition, ground water, streamflow, trends in water quality, and chemical loads in streams

Streamflow and estimated loads of phosphorus and dissolved and suspended solids from selected tributaries to Lake Ontario, New York, water years 2012–14

“…Irondequoit Creek and Allen Creek have well-documented high chloride concentrations (Sherwood, 2005;Hayhurst and others, 2010), which are reflected in the dissolved solids concentrations ( fig. 13; table 3); these locations have the second and third highest median dissolved solids concentrations (741 mg/L and 572 mg/L, respectively) of the study sites.…”

“…13; table 3); these locations have the second and third highest median dissolved solids concentrations (741 mg/L and 572 mg/L, respectively) of the study sites. The salt application rates are generally higher in these two basins because both basins comprise mostly urban land use with dense population and road networks (Sherwood, 2005). Of all the monitored tributaries, Irondequoit Creek near Rochester has the highest median annual suspended solids concentration (96 mg/L) and the second highest median annual phosphorus concentration (0.175 mg/L).…”

Methods for evaluating potential sources of chloride in surface waters and groundwaters of the conterminous United States

“…The data from dry-deposition samplers also are subject to losses and contamination because they are open to the atmosphere for a substantial amount of time. When bulk-deposition samples are compared to the sum of wet-and dry-deposition samples, there can be large variations in the estimates produced because of variability and bias in the sampling, sample handling, and analyses processes (Sherwood, 2003(Sherwood, , 2006.…”