Date: March 7, 2002
Time: 12:00 noon

Visual Assessment

Weather in the past 24 hours: clear/sunny
Weather Today: overcast

Major Land Uses in the watershed: Parking lots, paved driveways, city park,
A sewage plant , crop land, construction, rural homes with septic are in watershed, but not at sampling site,

Trash at the Creek: shopping carts, tires, bottles, bottles, cans furmiture
Animals at the Creek: Signs of raccoons, deer, ducks - but not actually seen.
Animals in the Creek: fish

Stream Bank Cover (1 is the least, 8 is the greatest):
Left Bank: Concrete-5, Big rocks-2, bare soil/sand-7, grasses-1, woody & sm. trees-7, Big trees-6, Lawn-0
Right Bank: Concrete-0, Big rocks-0, Bare soil/sand-3, grasses-5, woody/sm. trees-7,
Big trees-8, Lawn-0

Stream Bank Conditions:
Left: Undercut
Right: Steeply Sloping

Habitat Types: Pools, Riffles, Runs
Shape of the Channel: Wide Banks (6+ feet), Shallow Water (3- feet), Deep Banks (3+ feet)

What's in the water?: large branches, logs, sticks/twigs, fallen leaves
Is the creek in the sunshine or shade?: shady when leaves on trees…
What type of algae are present?: Algae everywhere- brown coat and hairy

Conditions in your stream: no unusual color when observed in white container, but brownish when looking down at stream over rocks, algae… also some foam

Embeddedness (1 is the least, 4 is the greatest): 2
Content of the Stream Bed (1 is the least, 5 is the greatest): mud-3, silt-2, sand-1, gravel-5, cobbles-4, boulders-0, bedrock, cement platform-0

Chemical Assessment

Temperature: 5 C
Dissolved Oxygen: 4 ppm
Percent Oxygen Saturation: 31.5%
Nitrate: less than 5 ppm
Phosphate: 1.5 ppm
pH: 8.5
Turbidity: 40 JTU
Total Coliforms: positive
Biological Oxygen Demand: 0 ppm
Stream Flow: 0.312 - 0.319 m/s

Macroinvertebrate Assessment

Sensitive Species: caddisfly larvae
Somewhat Sensitive Species: none
Tolerant Species: blackfly larvae, leech, midge larvae

How many times did your group sample with the kick net? 4 times

Water Quality Determination (as calculated from number of species present): 6
Scale: Excellent (>22), Good (17-22), Fair (11-16), Poor (<11)