Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Diamond Creek @ Edendale Environment Centre footbridge ME_YDI800
Date and Time Friday 23rd July 2010 14:00pm
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 0.05 8 340 0.07 7.1 13 11.9 60
Weather Overcast
Last rainfall Last 24 hrs
Flow estimate Fast
Water Appearance
Stream depth 80.00
Stream width 6.50
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants
3 mm rainfall in last 24 hrs, 7.6 mm rainfall in last 3 days, 13.6 mm in last 7 days. Phosphate test was done at 25.3 "C and Ammonium test was done at 25.5 "C. Changes since last time: Higher water level, more phosphate and ammonium. MOst of the upstream rubbish has gone, but the remains of some timber is still there. Today: rubbish (bottles, plsatic etc) and toam, stramside vegetation flattened, rom where water level was higher, heaping up of branshes downstream. othe observations: easter rosellas, sulphur, corested cochatoos, scrub wanes, willy wagtail, corellas, galahs, rainbow lovikeets.

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