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Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

numbers of litter not specified. also saw: balls,drainpipe, builders debris, glass pieces, lids, wire, string, shoe mesh,tyre, fencings, drinking straws, treeguard, ceramics. more erosion and deposition of silt, sand and stones since last time. Strong smell of blood and bone upstream from site, near historic bridge Evidence that the river had been 2 m higher. Streamside vegetation, shrubs uprooted Large amount and variety of rubbish Birds: fantail cuckoo, grey fantail, scrub wrens, red wattle bird, blackbird, spotted turtle dove, magpie, mudlark, spotted pardalote, rainbow lorikeets, gang gangs.

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image	Species	Score	Quantity
	c. Family Atyidae (glass shrimp)	0	N/A
	d. Family Hydrophilidae, Genus Helochares (Beetle adult)	2	N/A
	Freshwater shrimp	5	N/A
	Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera)	7	N/A
	Mayfly nymph (Ephemeroptera)	7	N/A
	Stonefly nymph (Plecoptera)	8	N/A
	Aquatic Caterpillars (Lepidoptera)	3	N/A
	Damselfly Nymph (Odonata)	6	N/A
	Dragonfly Nymph (Odonata)	6	N/A
	Freshwater Mussel (Bivalvia)	0	N/A
	Freshwater slater (Isopoda)	5	N/A
	Toebiters Dobsonflies (Megaloptera)	6	N/A
	Water mites (Acarina)	5	N/A
	Yabbies/Marron/Gilgie Freshwater (Decapoda)	5	N/A
	Beetle larvae (Coleoptera)	4	N/A
	Flatworms (Turbellaria)	3	N/A
	Freshwater Snails (Gastropoda)	3	N/A
	Hydra (Hydrozoa)	4	N/A
	Leeches (Hirudinea)	3	N/A
	Roundworms (Nematoda)	3	N/A
	Side Swimmer/Scud (Amphipoda)	4	N/A
	True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera)	4	N/A
	Biting Midge Larvae (Diptera)	2	N/A
	Mosquito Larvae (Diptera)	2	N/A
	Non Biting Midge Larvae - Bloodworms (Diptera)	0	N/A
	Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta)	1	N/A

	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

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