Quality of Delaware River Water at Trenton, New Jersey
McCarthy LT and Keighton WB. 1964. Quality of Delaware River Water at Trenton, New Jersey. water supply paper 1779-x. Hydrology of the United State Geological Survey. Washington, DC
Water in the Delaware River at Trenton, N.J., is a mixture of several types-water from the mountainous headwater region, water from the coal-mining regions, and water from the limestone valleys, The quantities of these tspes of water, in relation to the total quantity of water at Trenton, vary with changes in season and reservoir releases. Each year an average of 880,000 tons of dissolved solids and 932,000 tons of suspended solids are carried past Trenton by the Delaware River. The greatest monthly loads of dissolved solids are in March and April, and the smallest are from July to October.