CWQT week 15--results

[Rob Buchanan]

No significant precipitation for the last four days--so all good, right? Not at our newest site, on Coney Island Creek, which registered an alarmingly high "most probable number" of 1785. See below for more information. 

The all-sites spreadsheet is here.

Individual site results are available on our map interface here.

Photos of the week: 

New volunteer: Richard Rivera, a student at Kingsborough Community College, sampling at West 20th Street on Coney Island Creek.

Illumination = contamination: The River Project's head educator Eli Caref, left, and Lab Chief Nina Zain using a black light to count illuminated wells on IDEXX Quanti-trays, ice-tray-like contraptions that we use to estimate amounts of Enterococcus, a reliable fecal-indicator bacterium.

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Where would you rather swim? Coney Island Creek sample on the left, Pier 40 sample on the right.

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Young volunteer: Amy John's son Alpheus helping out at Bushwick Inlet Park on the East River. 

Big stink in Raritan Bay: low dissolved oxygen levels led to a pair of massive fish kills earlier this week. More details here, along with a statement from NY-NJ Baykeeper.