Submarine groundwater sampling, Great South Bay, Long Island.
Location
Great South Bay, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary
Groundwater samples were collected for dissolved metals, inorganic carbon, organic carbon, pharmaceuticals, and nutrients. Samples were collected from 14 onshore wells in Patchogue by USGS-WRD, 4 temporary offshore wells and piezometers in a shore-perpendicular transect (35 total offshore groundwater samples), 1 surface water site, and 20 temporary onshore piezometers (12 in unsewered Patchogue and 8 in sewered Babylon/Islip). Eight short sediment cores (~20-120 cm) were also collected in the Patchogue Bay area from the SCDHS barge. SCDHS personnel collected data along ~8-10 shore-perpendicular stationary electrical resistivity lines near the sediment coring sites, and collected subsurface Trident probe measurements of porewater conductivity in a transect in the vicinity of the temporary offshore wells. SCDHS personnel also collected sample splits for analysis of a variety of pollutants (e.g., pesticides, herbicides, volatile organic compounds) from low-salinity intervals in the offshore Patchogue piezometer closest to shore. The Stony Brook University student (Young) also collected sample splits for various analyses from the onshore wells sampled by USGS-WRD (Abbene).
Comments
Sampling sites along north shore of bay, in Patchogue Bay area and in Babylon/Islip area.
Project = Characterizing Sub-South Bay, Characterizing Sub-South Bay
Ron Paulsen and Jonathan Wanless (SCDHS); Kevin Kroeger and John Crusius (USGS-Woods Hole, not in the field); Chris Schubert (USGS-WRD, not in the field); Henry Bokuniewicz (not in the field, Stony Brook University)
Affiliate staff
Jonathan Wanless, Suffolk County Dept. of Health Services (SCDHS); Irene Abbene, USGS-WRD-NYWSC; Caitlin Young, Stony Brook University; Frankie Basile, Ralph Milito, Neal Stark, Mario Velasquez, Luis Velasquez, all SCDHS
