Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Karingal Creek (Eltham West Drain) near Fort Knox Self Storage, Eltham West. ME_YDI838
Date and Time Wednesday 21st July 2010 15:15pm
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N N mg/L NH4+ 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 0.01 300 0.07 7.7 15.4 11.5 50
Weather Overcast
Last rainfall Last 24 hrs
Flow estimate Fast
Water Appearance
Stream depth 14.00
Stream width 1.50
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
4 mm rainfall in last 24 hrs, 11 mm rainfall in last 3 days, 17 mm rainfall in last 7 days. Phosphate test was done at 24.3 "C and Ammonium test was done at 24.3 "C. Today: high turbidity; not surprising considering the recent rainfalls. Grass etc is looking rather flattened, so there has obviously been quite a volume of wter passing through recently.

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