Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Bunyip River
Site Sunshine Creek at outfall to Port Phillip Bay, Mt Martha ME_ESU450
Date and Time Monday 11th February 2013 10:50am
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N D.O. % 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 70 7 1380 8.1 0.02 21 14 80
Weather cloudy
Last rainfall During the last week 0.2
Flow estimate LOW: Minimum flow in channel/continuous flow in some part of channel (in-stream habitats connected)
Water Appearance Muddy
Stream depth 0 - 50cm
Stream width 0.5 - 0.7
Hazards Steep slope next to roadside
Litter/Pollutants bottles,cans,plastic,polystyrene,waxed cardboard
Half a rubbish bag of litter removed from the rocks around the site Healthy layer of green algae / weed on the water surface. Water appears extremely muddy. (I suspect this may be from stormwater from the surrounding unsealed roads; Macleod road in particular)

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