Date: September 29, 2001
Time: 10:20 AM

Visual Assessment

Weather in the past 24 hours: Clear/Sunny
Weather Today: Clear/Sunny

Major Land Uses in the watershed: Parking Lots, paved driveways, roads; Golf courses, manicured lawns, or city parks; Cropland; Construction

Trash at the Creek: Old tires, broken glass
Animals at the Creek: Racoons, deer, snakes, rabbits
Animals in the Creek: Water striders, crayfish

Stream Bank Cover (1 is the least, 8 is the greatest):
Left Bank: Concrete (1), Lawn (1), Grasses (3), Big trees (3), Bare soil (5), Big rocks (8), Shrubs (8)
Right Bank: Concrete (1), Lawn (1), Big rocks (1), Shrubs (5), Grasses (6), Big trees (8), Bare soil (8)

Habitat Types: Pools, Riffles
Shape of the Channel: Narrow Banks (< 6 feet), Shallow Water (< 3 feet), Deep Banks (> 3 feet)

What's in the water?: Large branches or logs, Sticks or twigs, Fallen leaves
What type of algae are present?: Algae in spots

Conditions in your stream: Orange to red coating on stream bed, No unusual color

Embeddedness (1 is the least, 4 is the greatest): 1
Content of the Stream Bed (1 is the least, 5 is the greatest): Mud (1), Cobbles (1), Bedrock (1), Silt (3), Gravel (5)

Chemical Assessment

Temperature: 16 C
Dissolved Oxygen: 6 ppm
Percent Oxygen Saturation: N/A
Nitrate: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 0 ppm
pH: 8
Turbidity: 20 JTU
Total Coliforms: N/A
Biological Oxygen Demand: N/A
Stream Flow: N/A


Macroinvertebrate Assessment

Sensitive Species: None
Somewhat Sensitive Species: Crayfish, Sowbug, Dragonfly Nymphs
Tolerant Species: Aquatic Worms, Pouch Snails

How many times did your group sample with the kick net?: 6

Water Quality Determination (as calculated from number of species present): 8
Scale: Excellent (>22), Good (17-22), Fair (11-16), Poor (<11)