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Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Yarra River 100m downstream of Gardiner's Creek confluence ME_YYR871
Date and Time Thursday 4th June 2009 08:30am
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 rP mg/L P Air ° C Water ° C Turb NTU
Sample 0.07 6200 0.04 6.9 14.9 13.7 10
Weather Cloudy
Last rainfall Last 24 hrs
Flow estimate Slow
Water Appearance
Stream depth
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
Lat Rainfall - Was During last 24 hrs with lightly. To Investigate this, I walked upstream to have a look at the entrance of Gardiners Creek after our session and I notices some sort of barrier on Gardiners Creek, like a white bar submerged in the water, thahts all I could see from the opposite bank of Yarra River. It looks like there is some construction going on anf workers have blocked the Gardiners Creek mouth to the Yarra River. It looks like this has reduced the flow of the Creek, so it may not be contributing much flow and just mixing with Yarra River upstrem water, eddying perhaps (swirling), this may be constricting the tide coming in, which could explain why the downstream salinity was so much higher.( At the time of sampling the tide did look it was coming in from the downstram site).

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