Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Reedys Billabong, Wilsons Reserve, Ivanhoe - North (as of 2007, current site) ME_YYR804
Date and Time Wednesday 21st November 2007 09:15am
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 FTU Turb NTU
Sample 0.79 2.5 330 7.1 0.27 14.5 17.8 30
Weather raining
Last rainfall Raining Now 10
Flow estimate PERMANENT: wetlands and lakes
Water Appearance Milky
Stream depth 0 - 50cm
Stream width 2m - 5m
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Aquatic Beetles - Diving Beetles, Whirligig Beetles (Coleoptera) Aquatic Beetles - Diving Beetles, Whirligig Beetles (Coleoptera) 3 2
Beetle larvae (Coleoptera) Beetle larvae (Coleoptera) 4 6
Flatworms (Turbellaria) 3 1
Leeches (Hirudinea) Leeches (Hirudinea) 3 6
Side Swimmer/Scud (Amphipoda) Side Swimmer/Scud (Amphipoda) 4 12
True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera) True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera) 4 37
Fly Larvae -True, Black, Crane, March, Horse, and Soldier Fly Larvae (Diptera) Fly Larvae -True, Black, Crane, March, Horse, and Soldier Fly Larvae (Diptera) 2 16
Mosquito Larvae (Diptera) Mosquito Larvae (Diptera) 2 3
Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) 1 5
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 88 Total score: 25 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