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Site code CO_SWA138
Site name Lonsdale Lakes, Clowes Lane, Point Lonsdale
Status Active
Water Authority Corangamite
Basin Barwon River
Catchment Barwon River
Sub catchment Swan Bay
Reach
Water type Other
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History View all 80 site visits 23-09-2008 - 19-12-2022
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Last data: 19-12-2022
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Habitat

Date Comment Bank Erosion Stability Bank Vegetation In Stream Cover Riffles Pools Bends Verge Vegetation Overall
19-01-2012 Birds present: Black-winged Stilts, Eurasian Coots, Black Swans, Plovers, Superb Fairy-wrens, Willie Wagtail, Swallow (sp), Masked Lapwings. Vegetation included Beaded Glasswort and Mimulus repens? (Creeping Monkey-flower). Good 4 Good 8 Fair 6 Poor 2 Fair 6 Fair 26
25-01-2011 This is a lake not a stream, therefore instream cover and riffles/pool/bends are not applicable. Birds: black swans, pied cormorants, yellow breasted robin, swallows, pacific black duck Many dragonflies. Pobblebonk frogs. Many more invertebrates present due to high water levels and lower salinity levels Fair 3 Good 8 VeryPoor 2 VeryPoor 1 Fair 6 Fair 20
23-09-2008 Saltmarsh: Beaded Glasswort (Sarcocornia quinqueflora?), Sea Rush (Juncus leraussi?), Swamp Weed (Selliena radiacans?), Trailing Hemichroa (Hemichroa pentandra?) Banded stilts, swans, red capped plover, red necked stints, Sacred Ibis. Fair 3 Poor 4 Good 8 Good 4 Good 8 Fair 27

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