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Overview

Catchment Wimmera
Site Yarriambiack Creek, Warracknabeal @ Lions Park Bridge E bank WI_YRM450
Date and Time Tuesday 29th March 2011 17:55pm
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 890 150 7.27 0.6 26.1 18
Weather
Last rainfall
Flow estimate
Water Appearance
Stream depth Other:2.17
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants

at end of 2nd month of weekly monitoring after flood flow 

slight decrease in depth, still flowing 

water bugs: 343 caddisfly nymph, 6 black water mite, 7 diving beetle larvae, 2 backswimmer, 1 waterboatmen,  1 small wter strider, 1 needle bug, 107 water scavenger beetle, 3 flat worm, 4 freshwater worm, 229 bloodworm and 12 gambuzia

report in YCAC meeting 66 

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera) Caddis-fly Larvae (Trichoptera) 7 343
Water mites (Acarina) Water mites (Acarina) 5 6
Aquatic Beetles - Diving Beetles, Whirligig Beetles (Coleoptera) Aquatic Beetles - Diving Beetles, Whirligig Beetles (Coleoptera) 3 108
Beetle larvae (Coleoptera) Beetle larvae (Coleoptera) 4 1
Flatworms (Turbellaria) 3 3
True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera) True Bugs - Backswimmers, Water-boatmen, Water-striders (Hemiptera) 4 9
Non Biting Midge Larvae - Bloodworms (Diptera) Non Biting Midge Larvae - Bloodworms (Diptera) 1 229
Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) Segmented Worm (Oligochaeta) 1 4
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 703 Total score: 27 Overall rating: Poor

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