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ME_YYR870 Yarra River, Scotch College boatshed, just upstream of Gardiners Creek confluence, Richmond?
4 June 2009
Site visit details
Overview
| Catchment | Yarra River |
|---|---|
| Site | Yarra River, Scotch College boatshed, just upstream of Gardiners Creek confluence, Richmond? ME_YYR870 |
| Date and Time | Thursday 4th June 2009 08:30am |
| Approved | Approved |
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 | rP mg/L P | Air ° C | Water ° C | Turb NTU | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | 0.05 | 2800 | 0.09 | 7 | 14.9 | 13.7 | 3 |
| Weather | Cloudy |
|---|---|
| Last rainfall | Last 24 hrs |
| Flow estimate | Slow |
| Water Appearance | |
| Stream depth | |
| Stream width | |
| Hazards | |
| Litter/Pollutants |
Ammonium & Phosphate - Results may be effected by high Turbidity reading and sample not filtered. Lat Rainfall - Was During last 24 hrs with low amount. To Investigate this, I walked upstream to have a look at the entrance of Gardiners Creek after our session and I notices some sort of barrier on Gardiners Creek, like a white bar submerged in the water, thahts all I could see from the opposite bank of Yarra River. It looks like there is some construction going on anf workers have blocked the Gardiners Creek mouth to the Yarra River. It looks like this has reduced the flow of the Creek, so it may not be contributing much flow and just mixing with Yarra River upstrem water, eddying perhaps (swirling), this may be constricting the tide coming in, which could explain why the downstream salinity was so much higher.( At the time of sampling the tide did look it was coming in from the downstram site).
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