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NE_ONE065 One Mile Creek, Wareena Park Wetlands (Witte)

14 January 2009

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Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Ovens River
Site One Mile Creek, Wareena Park Wetlands (Witte) NE_ONE065
Date and Time Wednesday 14th January 2009 09:00am
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

D.O. % D.O mg/L EC µS/cm Nitrate-Nit mg/L N pH pH Units rP mg/L P Water ° C Turb NTU
Sample 5 300 6.5 20 12
Weather
Last rainfall
Flow estimate
Water Appearance
Stream depth
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
Fine and sunny during sampling and in the past 24 hours. Temperature peaked 40 degree C. Spraying of parots feather will commence this week at this site. Currently overtaken by parots feather and other exotic and native vegetation. Quite a bit of algae and scum on surface water. Creek turbidity poor and quite stagnant. Macroinverterbrates: Length of sample - 5m. 30min to sort sample. There was no flow. Signal 2 Index Score: 2 - Severely polluted

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 0 Total score: 0 Overall rating: Poor

Diary photos

No diary entries recorded for this visit

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