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Overview

Catchment Wimmera
Site Yarriambiack Creek, Warracknabeal @ Lions Park Bridge E bank WI_YRM450
Date and Time Tuesday 22nd February 2011 19:05pm
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N D.O. % D.O mg/L EC µS/cm Hard mg/L Nitrate-Nit mg/L N pH pH Units rP mg/L P Water ° C P mg/L Turb NTU
Sample 880 200 7.26 0.6 21.3 30
Weather
Last rainfall
Flow estimate
Water Appearance
Stream depth Other:2.22
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants

4th week of weekly monitoring after flood flow 

sight decrease in depth, but still flowing 

macros found : 2 caddis fly larvae, 1 dragon fly larvae, 8 black watr mite, 1 waterboatman, 1 freshwater worm. 4 bloodworms and 167 in the pest fish Gambuzia

Bug Stream Condition Poor 

reported in YCAC meeting 65 

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera) Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera) 7 2
Dragonfly Nymph (Odonata) Dragonfly Nymph (Odonata) 6 1
Water mites (Acarina) Water mites (Acarina) 5 8
True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera) True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera) 4 1
Non Biting Midge Larvae - Bloodworms (Diptera) Non Biting Midge Larvae - Bloodworms (Diptera) 1 4
Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) 1 1
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 17 Total score: 24 Overall rating: Poor

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