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Date: September 27, 2005
Time: 9am-12pm
HUC8: 10207010
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; Rural homes
with septic systems; Construction
Trash at the Creek: Broken glass, cans, plastic bottles, wrappers
Animals at the Creek: Frogs, raccoon tracks
Animals in the Creek: Fish, Water striders, water boatmen, crawdads
Stream Bank
Cover (1 is the least, 10 is the greatest):
Left Bank: Grasses (4), Woody Shrubs/Small Trees (9), Big Trees (10), Bare Soil or Sand (3), Big Rocks/Rip
Rap (0), Concrete (0), Lawn (0), Other (0)
Right Bank: Grasses (6), Woody Shrubs/Small Trees
(10), Big Trees (9), Bare Soil or Sand (2), Big Rocks/Rip Rap (0), Concrete (0), Lawn (0), Other
(0)
Stream Bank Conditions:
Left Bank: Steeply Sloping
Right Bank: Steeply Sloping
Habitat Types: Pools, Runs and Riffles
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 or logs; Sticks or twigs;
Fallen leaves
Human Impact: none
Is the creek in the sunshine or shade?: Shade
What type of algae are present?: algae in spots, brown coat of algae on rocks, algae matted on rocks
Conditions in your stream: No unusual color
Embeddedness (How much silt is around the rocks, 1 is the least,
4 is the greatest): 3
Content of the Stream Bed (1 is the least, 5 is the greatest):
Mud (1), Silt (2), Sand (2), Gravel (3), Cobbles (4), Boulders
(0), Bedrock (5), Cement Platform (0)
Chemical
Assessment
Temperature:
18
C
Dissolved Oxygen: 8 ppm
Percent Oxygen Saturation: 84%
Nitrate: < 5 ppm
Phosphate: 1 ppm
pH: 8
Turbidity: 0
Stream Flow: 6 meters/second
Macroinvertebrate
Assessment
Sensitive
Species: Mayfly
Nymphs, Caddisfly Larvae, gilled snails
Somewhat Sensitive Species: Clams, Cranefly Larvae
Tolerant Species: leeches
How
many times did your group sample with the kick net?: N/A
Water
Quality Determination (as calculated from number of species present):
14
Scale: Excellent (>22), Good (17-22), Fair (11-16), Poor (<11)
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