Hudson River PlumePollution and the Atlantic Ocean

Drains about 13,400 square miles Encompasses 11 major sub-watersheds Home to about 20 million people in 5

different states About 60% of the water from the Watershed

is used for commercial or industrial purposes.

Hudson River Watershed

Hudson River Plume

Hudson River empties out into the Atlantic Ocean

LaTTE Found that transportation

is influenced by wind speed and direction, river discharge, shelf circulation and topography

Bulge formed due to Density and Salinity differences

3 Days of WindLow-discharge500 m^3/s

3 Days of Wind High –discharge 3000 m^3 /s

High discharge with no wind

Pollution in Hudson River

PCBs General Electric

Oil from and oil spill caused by ExxonMobil

CSO’s Agricultural Run-off Heavy metals (Mercury,

Cadmium, Strontium-90) Both point-source pollution

and non-point source pollution

Affect on Atlantic

Contaminants flow into Atlantic Ocean

Contamination expands to a wider range

http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/assets/content/general/FishEatingWarning.pdf

http://www.riverkeeper.org/water-quality/hudson/what/other-pollutants

http://www.epa.gov/osw/hazard/tsd/pcbs/pubs/about.htm http://www.hudsonwatershed.org/hudson-riverwatershed.html https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1452100454/showing-the-rea

l-face-of-plastic-pollution-in-our/posts

http://marine.rutgers.edu/~wilkin/ChoiWilkin_JPO2007.pdf http://new.coolclassroom.org/adventures/explore/plume Chant, Robert, John Wilkin, Weifeng Zhang, Byoung-Ju Choi, Eli

Hunter, Renato Castelao, Scott Glenn, Joe Jurisa, Oscar Schofield, Robert Houghton, Josh Kohut, Thomas Frazer, and Mark Moline. "Dispersal of the Hudson River Plume in the New York Bight: Synthesis of Observational and Numerical Studies During LaTTE." Oceanography 21.4 (2008): 148-61. Web.

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