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Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Wetland 2@ Yallambie Creek, Simpson Barracks Watsonia ME_YPL949
Date and Time Saturday 3rd May 2008 10:30am
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N D.O mg/L EC µS/cm FrP mg/L P Nitrate-Nit mg/L N pH pH Units Air ° C Water ° C Turb NTU
Sample 0 7.7 90 0 7.3 11 11.5 30
Weather Cloudy
Last rainfall Last 24 hrs
Flow estimate Still
Water Appearance
Stream depth
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
Good rainfall topped up wetlands but contributed to high turbidity levels of the water body. It appears that both sites are holding their own in water quality, so will be scaling down the testing to quarterly. With both wetlands reporting consistant readings without any dramatic changes, I will be recommending this change to max harker. Bug activity is still lively with plenty of frog calls around the waters edge. No more bug sampling will be carried out until spring. I managed however to view microscopic samples which included seed shrimp and copepods carrying eggs.

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