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Overview
| Site code | CO_FOR040 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Ford River @ Great Ocean Road Bridge |
| Status | Inactive |
| Water Authority | Corangamite |
| Basin | Otway Coast |
| Catchment | Otway Coast |
| Sub catchment | Aire River |
| Reach | 35_26 Ford River |
| Water type | River |
| Council | |
| History | View all 78 site visits 03-04-2012 - 25-06-2018 |
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| Date | Comment | Bank Erosion Stability | Bank Vegetation | In Stream Cover | Riffles Pools Bends | Verge Vegetation | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-05-2017 | <p>Upstream of sampling site: Good cover of natives,however blackberries are heavily established.</p> <p> </p> <p>Downstream of sampling site: RH bank = blackberries have been removed, grass and water weeds cover surface. LH bank: has intensive blackberryi intrusion beneath native trees</p> | Good 4 | Good 8 | Good 8 | Excellent 5 | Good 8 | 33 |
| 24-04-2016 | <p>List of vegetation included on Field sheet</p> | Good 4 | Good 8 | Good 8 | Excellent 5 | Fair 6 | Good 31 |
| 20-04-2015 | Grasses, Ferns, Kangaroo Apple, myrtle Wattle, Carex sp., Knot weed, Blackwoods, Indian Weed, Eucalyptus sp., Pomaderis sp., Mosses on rocks and logs, Daisy Bush. One small fish. Blackberry infestation quite serious upstream of bridge. Some spraying evident downstream. | Good 4 | Good 8 | Good 8 | Excellent 5 | Fair 6 | Good 31 |
| 09-05-2014 | Planted native vegetation along stream riparian zone is well established, but blackberry is intruding. Lots of snags (coarse woody debris) located downstream of bridge. Although some blackberries have been sprayed downstream of bridge, lots remain along with vinca. | Excellent 5 | VeryPoor 2 | Fair 6 | Fair 3 | Good 8 | Fair 24 |
| 06-05-2013 | The replanting by Landcare is now well established upstream of the bridge. Now = 3meters tall and dense cover. Blackberry infestation and willows are pest species on downstream of bridge banks. S-East side banks are composed of sand and are easily eroded, cattle hoove prints obvious at the base of banks. Coarse woody debris is present, streambed sandy silt. | Fair 3 | Fair 6 | Fair 6 | Good 4 | Poor 4 | Fair 23 |
| 03-04-2012 | 2 year old Landcare reveg site after Willow removal immediatly upstream.Willows and blackberries at monitoring site. | Fair 3 | Fair 6 | Good 8 | Good 4 | Poor 4 | Fair 25 |
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