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Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Watsons Creek at Oxley Bridge, Henley Road, Bend of Islands ME_YWA900
Date and Time Saturday 21st June 2008 14:00pm
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N D.O mg/L EC µS/cm FrP mg/L P Nitrate-Nit mg/L N pH pH Units Air ° C Water ° C Turb NTU
Sample 0 8 1330 0 8.4 11.5 12.6 10
Weather Cloudy
Last rainfall Last 24 hrs
Flow estimate Flowing
Water Appearance
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Litter/Pollutants
Still in pristine condition apart from the high salinity reading. THis is up on last month by 130. Flowing water only appears after the test area about 10m downstream. Water level at 300mm under the Oxley Bridge at it's deepest point. Further upstream towards calwell Rd end there are water bodies with depths of up to 1.5m with small waterfall in between closer to the dam. Bug activity is still very high with a large diversity of orders and family. Ed Tsyrlin is certainly correct in mentioning that although high salinity readings area problem this had not affected the bug activity or created concerns towards the ecosystem.

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