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Overview

Catchment Lake Victoria
Site Newlands Arm - Jetty 280 EG_NLA030
Date and Time Saturday 8th January 2005 12:00pm
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

D.O. % D.O mg/L EC µS/cm pH pH Units rP mg/L P Secchi m Air ° C Water ° C Turb NTU
Sample 3699 8.1 0.015 1.5 23 19
Weather
Last rainfall
Flow estimate
Water Appearance
Stream depth
Stream width
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
Weather Conditions: Fine. Comments/Notes: Previously extensive dense patches of heterozostera tasmanica? Have receded about 10% on last month's report. SW winds have been strong and frequent and may have had some effect. Also there has been a lot of high speed boat activity. There have been large fish hatches around the jetty area in the past couple of months; more so than I can remember in past years. I have explored the shallows with the macro net and found small sandworms, mussels ans some scud. I found no pipefish in the grasses yet. I am concerned about the 7.0 pH control sample I have as the instrument reading for this was 6.5, whereas it has consistently held calibration at around 7.0 over a long period of time. I have cleaned the battery connections and they cannot be blamed. I must get a new control sample from you soon.

Creatures Waterwatch method

Image Species Score Quantity
Total bug score
Total abundance 0 - 35 35+
0 - 200 Poor Good
200+ Fair Very good
Total abundance: 0 Total score: 0 Overall rating: Poor

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