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ME_YPL920 Plenty River, close to Yarra/Plenty River bike trail, off Bannockburn Road Lower Plenty.

3 March 2011

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Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Plenty River, close to Yarra/Plenty River bike trail, off Bannockburn Road Lower Plenty. ME_YPL920
Date and Time Thursday 3rd March 2011 11:30am
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N N mg/L NH4+ 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 6 310 999 7.8 0.07 18.4 17.7 34
Weather cloudy
Last rainfall During the last week
Flow estimate Rapid
Water Appearance Other: pale brown but clean looking
Stream depth 0 - 50cm
Stream width 2m - 5m
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants bottles,cans,plastic,polystyrene,other
Other rubbish- 3 balls New planting have grown very well. Litter carried down by the floods is embedded in the mud or left high in branches (up to 4 m above river). A wedgetail eagle overhead mobbed by smaller birds, mudlarks, magpie, spotted pardelote, silver eye, and other birds using the corridor: grey fantail, scrub wren, thornbill, corella, and indian mynah. Larger and smll Araujia sericifera have been removed. Persicarias controlling bank erosion well.When I tried to lodge the form the program asked me to enter a value for this parameter but there was none- only regular reactive phosphate was performed and this was already entered. I entered 999 to trigger this anomaly.

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Chironomids Chironomids 1 5
d. Family Hydrophilidae, Genus Helochares (Beetle adult) d. Family Hydrophilidae, Genus Helochares (Beetle adult) 2 2
Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera) Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera) 7 4
Mayfly nymph (Ephemeroptera) Mayfly nymph (Ephemeroptera) 7 4
Aquatic Caterpillars (Lepidoptera) 3 1
Water mites (Acarina) Water mites (Acarina) 5 1
Flatworms (Turbellaria) 3 1
Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) 1 2
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 20 Total score: 25 Overall rating: Poor

Diary photos

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