ALMN NAWQA Surface-Water Quality Site Page

Site: Laurel Hill Creek at Ursina, PA

• Station Number:   03080000
• NAWQA Sucode:   bst1
• Local Identifier:   BST19
• Latitude (DMS):   394913 / Longitude (DMS):   791918
• County (of sampling location):   Somerset
• Description:   On right bank 500 ft downstream from bridge on State Highway 281 at Ursina, and 2.7 mi upstream from mouth. Bed sediment collected 3.2 river miles upstream of gage at Ursina.
• Drainage Area:   121 mi²
• Predominant Land Use(s):   Mixed forest, some agriculture

• NAWQA Site Type:   Occurrence and Distribution Study Site, Basic Fixed Site (Reference site for Ecological Fixed-Site Reach Assessment)
• Study Components:   Bed-Sediment and Tissue Study , Basic Fixed-Site Assessment -- Reference Site for Ecological Fixed-Site Reach Assessment
• Water-Quality Sampling Frequency:  
  Fish Tissue:   summer 1996, summer 1997 (duplicate taxa at two sites)  
  Bed Sediment:   summer 1996, summer 1998 (Trace elements only)
  Ecological Fixed-Site Reach Assessment:   May and September 1997, April 1998
• Water-Quality Constituents Sampled:  
  Fish Tissue:   Trace elements in fish livers, Organic compounds in composites of whole fish  
  Bed Sediment:   Trace elements, Hydrophobic pesticides, Additional organic compounds
  Ecological Fixed-Site Reach Assessment:   Continuous streamflow, Discharge, Field constituents, Trace elements (dis.), Major ions, Nutrients, Organic carbon, Suspended sediment, Trace elements (suspended sediment), Ecological assessment
• Period of Streamflow Record:   August to September 1913 (gage heights and discharge measurements only), October 1918 to current year. Monthly discharges only for some periods, published in WSP 1305. October 1913 to September 1918 (gage heights and discharge measurements only) in reports of Water Supply Commission of Pennsylvania.
• Published Water-Quality and Discharge Records:

Study Component	1996	1997	1998
Basic Fixed Site Water Chemistry Data  Reference Site for Ecological Fixed-Site Reach Assessment (Site data only)	N/A	View	View
Basic Fixed Site Fish Community Data  Reference Site for Ecological Fixed-Site Reach Assessment (Site data only)	N/A	View	N/A
Basic Fixed-Site Invertebrate Data (Study data)	View
Bed-Sediment and Tissue Study (Study data)	N/A	View	N/A

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