Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Ovens River
Site Horseshoe Creek, Everton (Everton PS) NE_HOR010
Date and Time Thursday 5th October 2006 14:00pm
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

D.O. % D.O mg/L EC µS/cm pH pH Units rP mg/L P Water ° C Turb NTU
Sample 14.2 10
Weather
Last rainfall
Flow estimate
Water Appearance
Stream depth
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
Staff: Carolyn Humby Due to the very dry conditions there was no flow in the creek and very little water. What was in the creek was fairly stagnant and only little ponds of water

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Freshwater shrimp Freshwater shrimp 5 2
Water-boatmen Water-boatmen 4 2
Water mites (Acarina) Water mites (Acarina) 5 3
Yabbies/Marron/Gilgie Freshwater (Decapoda) Yabbies/Marron/Gilgie Freshwater (Decapoda) 5 1
Beetle larvae (Coleoptera) Beetle larvae (Coleoptera) 4 2
Freshwater Snails (Gastropoda) Freshwater Snails (Gastropoda) 3 3
Leeches (Hirudinea) Leeches (Hirudinea) 3 1
Roundworms (Nematoda) Roundworms (Nematoda) 3 1
Mosquito Larvae (Diptera) Mosquito Larvae (Diptera) 2 9
Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) 1 2
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 26 Total score: 26 Overall rating: Poor

Diary photos

No diary entries recorded for this visit

Creative Commons CC BY
All content, files, data and images provided by the Waterwatch Data Portal and Gallery are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License

Content is made available to be used in any way, and should always attribute Waterwatch and www.vic.waterwatch.org.au