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Overview
Catchment | Yarra River |
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Site | Nerreman Wetland @ Eltham ME_YDI833 |
Date and Time | Sunday 4th June 2017 09:30am |
Approved | Approved |
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 | |
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Sample | 5 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
Weather | overcast |
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Last rainfall | During the last week 17.70 |
Flow estimate | LOW: Minimum flow in channel/continuous flow in some part of channel (in-stream habitats connected) |
Water Appearance | Clear,Other |
Stream depth | 0 - 50cm |
Stream width | 2m - 5m |
Hazards | |
Litter/Pollutants | bottles,paper,plastic,cans,clothing,packets,polystyrene,other: balls, orange mesh. |
In the pit drain: 17 plastic bottles, 1 tennis ball, 2 table tennis balls, 1 plastic ball 1 steel can, 1 piece polystyrene.
A tree trunk and branches are still blocking the tunnels.
Cumbungi is dying leaving a wider channel.
Gravel has been deposited below the dam wall and downstream from the bridge.
A fox has left only feathers and droppings after a meal.
Greg removed a long, wide piece of orange mesh from the creek and took it home to discard.
Water was just a trickle at the big dam and hardly flowing, downstream from the log dam.
Oxygen levela bit better this time.
BIRDS: Magpies, Kookaburra, 2 Wood Ducks and another duck, probably a Black duck.
There were Common Froglets calling.
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