{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Jason Siemion", "hasEmail": "mailto:jsiemion@usgs.gov"}, "description": "The upper Esopus Creek is the primary tributary to the Ashokan Reservoir, part of the New York City (NYC) water supply system. Suspended-sediment concentration (ssc) and turbidity are primary water-quality concerns in the NYC water-supply system, particularly in the upper Esopus Creek watershed. In 2016 the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Geological Survey entered into a collaborative agreement to conduct a comprehensive study of suspended sediment and turbidity in the upper Esopus Creek watershed. Objectives included ssc, streamflow, and turbidity monitoring, and development of turbidity-ssc regression equations to estimate ssc from continuous turbidity measurements. Cross-section and point suspended-sediment samples were collected at 14 monitoring sites in the upper Esopus Creek watershed through most of the range in streamflow and turbidity measured at the monitoring sites. Turbidity-ssc regression equations were developed for the monitoring sites for the period October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2019. This data release contains the data used to develop the turbidity-ssc regression equations and diagnostic plots for each monitoring location.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MV3NZ8", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5f0dd3b482ce21d4c4053de9.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_5f0dd3b482ce21d4c4053de9", "keyword": ["Ashokan Reservoir", "Catskill Mountains", "USGS:5f0dd3b482ce21d4c4053de9", "suspended sediment", "turbidity", "upper Esopus Creek basin"], "modified": "2021-11-19T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-74.610900879522, 41.914215715541, -74.072570801418, 42.203783388741", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Suspended-sediment concentration and turbidity data for sites in the upper Esopus Creek watershed New York, 2016-19"}