Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Fonteynkill Monitoring: Fonteynkill Coliform Abundance

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Metadata Provider

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    Monitoring the impacts of riparian zone land-use change on water quality, hydrology, and watershed connectivity of a first-order stream in the Hudson Valley, NY.

People

  • John Brandt: Content Provider

  • Mary Ann Cunningham: Content Provider

  • Kirsten Menking: Content Provider

Geographic Coverage

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    Data Table

    • Title: Fonteynkill Coliform Abundance
    • Start Date: 2012-01-01
    • Description: General and fecal coliform abundance cultured from Fonteynkill surface water samples.

    • Purpose:

    • Condensed Title: Z1099_Z8M5N5

    • Object Name: VMC.1099.2263

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/fonteynkill/dataset/fonteynkill-coliform-abundance

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/fonteynkill/dataset/fonteynkill-coliform-abundance

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: Avg_Blue
      • Label: Avg Blue
      • Description: Average blue-colored colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      • Unit: CFU/plate
      Attribute Name: Avg_Blue/Gray
      • Label: Avg Blue/Gray
      • Description: Average blue/gray-colored colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Coliform_per_100ml
      • Label: Avg Coliform per 100ml
      • Description: Average total coliform colonies (blue+purple+pink) per 100 ml of sample.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Colorless
      • Label: Avg Colorless
      • Description: Average colorless and clear colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_E_Coli_CFU_per_100mL
      • Label: Avg E Coli CFU per 100mL
      • Description: Average E Coli colonies (blue + purple) per 100 ml of sample.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Green
      • Label: Avg Green
      • Description: Average green-colored colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Noncoliform
      • Label: Avg Noncoliform
      • Description: Average noncoliform colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Noncoliform_per_100ml
      • Label: Avg Noncoliform per 100ml
      • Description: Average noncoliform colonies per 100 ml of sample.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Pink
      • Label: Avg Pink
      • Description: Average pink-colored colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Purple
      • Label: Avg Purple
      • Description: Average purple-colored colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Avg_Total_E_coli
      • Label: Avg Total E coli
      • Description: Average E Coli colonies per plate of bacteria.
      • Storage Type: decimal
      • Measurment Type: ordinal
      Attribute Name: Date
      • Label: Date
      • Storage Type: date
      • Measurment Type: datetime
      • String Format: M/D/YY
      Attribute Name: Site
      • Label: Site
      • Description: SG = Shakespeare Garden, RC = Raymond Culvert, TH = Town Houses
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal

    Methods

    • No methods recorded for this dataset

    Sampling Equipment

    • Current Equipment
      • Coliform Sampling
        • Sampling Description: Three 30-ml samples were collected in wide-mouth HDPE bottles biweekly to monthly at each sample site along the Fonteynkill.

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset