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Watershed Protection and Restoration Plan for Manalapan Brook Watershed Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey February 2011 WATERSHED PROTECTION AND RESTORATION PLAN FOR THE MANALAPAN BROOK WATERSHED Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey Prepared for: New Jersey Water Supply Authority, on behalf of the Manalapan Brook Watershed Restoration and Protection Plan Project Committee Watershed Protection Programs 74 East Main Street Somerville, New Jersey 08876-2312 (P) 908.685.0315 • (F) 908.685.0195 Email: [email protected] Prepared by: Princeton Hydro, LLC 120 East Uwchlan Avenue, Suite 204 Exton, Pennsylvania 19341 (P) 610.524.4220 • (F) 610.524.9434 Email: [email protected] February 2011 Watershed Protection and Restoration Plan for Manalapan Brook Watershed Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey February 2011 Table of Contents Table of Contents................................................................................................................ 1 List of Tables ...................................................................................................................... 4 List of Figures..................................................................................................................... 5 Appendices.......................................................................................................................... 6 Executive Summary............................................................................................................ 8 Introduction....................................................................................................................... 10 Project Justification: ......................................................................................................... 12 Characterization and Assessment of the Watershed......................................................... 17 Introduction: ................................................................................................................. 17 Census Data: ................................................................................................................. 17 Subwatershed Delineation: ........................................................................................... 18 Land Use Land Cover: .................................................................................................. 19 Water Resource Designation: ....................................................................................... 20 Stream Network: ........................................................................................................... 22 Geology: ........................................................................................................................ 23 Soils: ............................................................................................................................. 24 Groundwater Recharge: ............................................................................................... 25 Critical Habitat: ............................................................................................................ 25 Open Space:.................................................................................................................. 27 Septic: ........................................................................................................................... 28 Impervious Surfaces: .................................................................................................... 28 Floodplains: .................................................................................................................. 29 Stream Visual Assessment Protocol ................................................................................. 30 Introduction: ................................................................................................................. 30 Delineating Assessment Stations: ................................................................................. 31 Visual Assessment Protocol: ......................................................................................... 34 Visual Assessment Data Management: ......................................................................... 36 Visual Assessment Results: ........................................................................................... 37 Water Quality Data ........................................................................................................... 47 Introduction: ................................................................................................................. 47 Sampling Protocol: ....................................................................................................... 48 In-situ Data: .................................................................................................................. 50 Temperature: ............................................................................................................. 50 Dissolved Oxygen: .................................................................................................... 51 pH: ............................................................................................................................ 54 Conductivity: ............................................................................................................. 55 Water Clarity: ........................................................................................................... 55 Discrete Parameters: .................................................................................................... 56 Total Phosphorus: ..................................................................................................... 56 Soluble Reactive Phosphorus (SRP): ........................................................................ 57 Total Suspended Solids (TSS): .................................................................................. 57 Chlorophyll a: ........................................................................................................... 58 Princeton Hydro, LLC 1 Watershed Protection and Restoration Plan for Manalapan Brook Watershed Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey February 2011 Plankton and Fish Sampling: ........................................................................................ 59 Phytoplankton: .......................................................................................................... 59 Zooplankton: ............................................................................................................. 59 Fishery Survey: ......................................................................................................... 60 Trophic State Analyses: ................................................................................................ 61 Consecutive In-Situ Monitoring at Manalapan Lake: .................................................. 63 Discussion: .................................................................................................................... 65 Applying AVGWLF Model to Manalapan Brook Watershed.......................................... 67 Introduction: ................................................................................................................. 67 Data Requirements: ...................................................................................................... 70 Model Calibration: ....................................................................................................... 72 Model Results: .............................................................................................................. 76 Municipality Results: ................................................................................................ 77 Subwatershed Results: .............................................................................................. 80 Establishment of Targeted Endpoint and Long-Term Goal.............................................. 84 Introduction: ................................................................................................................. 84 Targeted Endpoint Analysis: ......................................................................................... 84 Watershed Protection and Restoration Implementation Strategy..................................... 86 Introduction: ................................................................................................................. 86 Project Identification and Prioritization: ..................................................................... 86 Subwatershed Ranking: ............................................................................................ 87 Land Sediment Results: ............................................................................................. 87 Streambank Erosion Results: .................................................................................... 90 Combined Subwatershed Ranking: ........................................................................... 93 Stream Visual Assessment: ....................................................................................... 95 Water Resource Protection Open Space Criteria Model (WRPOS): ........................ 95 Updated Land Use / Land Cover (LU/LC): ............................................................ 100 First Tier Project Identification and Prioritization: ............................................... 100 Second Tier Project Identification: ......................................................................... 128
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