Date: December 8, 2001
Time: 9:00 AM

Visual Assessment

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

Major Land Uses in the watershed: Parking lots, paved driveways, roads; Rural Homes with Septic Systems; Cropland, and Active Grazing Land and/or feedlots.

Trash at the Creek: barbed wire, broken glass, cans, cement with wire running through it, fishing line
Animals at the Creek: raccoons, deer
Animals in the Creek: fish, minnows

Stream Bank Cover (1 is the least, 8 is the greatest):
Left Bank: Concrete (6) Big Rocks (2) Bare Soil (7) Grasses (0) Woody shrubs (4) big trees (3)
Right Bank: Concrete (5) Big Rocks (1) Bare Soil (7) Grasses (0) Woody shrubs (5) big trees (2)

Stream Bank Conditions:
Left Bank: Undercut
Right Bank: 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?:
Naturally occurring: Large branches, sticks or twigs, fallen leaves
Human impact: None

Is the creek in the sunshine or shade?: Sun

What type of algae are present?: Algae in spots: algae matted on rocks and hairy algae

Conditions in your stream: Yellow-brown to dark brown water, muddy in areas, natural foam (less than 3 inches)

Embeddedness (1 is the least, 4 is the greatest): 4
Content of the Stream Bed (1 is the least, 5 is the greatest): Mud (1), Silt (1), Sand (5), Gravel (3), Cobbles (2) Boulders (0) Bedrock (0) Cement Platforms (5)

Chemical Assessment

Temperature: 2 C
Dissolved Oxygen: 4 ppm
Percent Oxygen Saturation: 29%
Nitrate: 0 ppm
Phosphate: 2 ppm
pH: 7
Turbidity: 0 JTU
Total Coliforms: Positive
Biological Oxygen Demand: 4 ppm
Stream Flow: 1.8 m/s

Macroinvertebrate Assessment

Sensitive Species: 4 Species
Somewhat Sensitive Species: 4 Species
Tolerant Species: 1 Species

How many times did your group sample with the kick net?: 2

Water Quality Determination (as calculated from number of species present): 21
Scale: Excellent (>22), Good (17-22), Fair (11-16), Poor (<11)