Site visit details

Overview

Catchment Yarra River
Site Scotchman's Creek. Bottom of Valley Reserve immediately East of Regent Street, Mt Waverley ME_YSC020
Date and Time Sunday 25th August 2013 10:30am
Approved Approved

Notes

Physical Chemical Tests

Ammon-Nit mg/L NH3-N N mg/L NH4+ D.O. % 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 FTU Turb NTU
Sample 0.02 330 7.1 12 12 24
Weather overcast
Last rainfall During the last week 9
Flow estimate MEDIUM: flow is normal/typical average flow
Water Appearance Clear,Scummy
Stream depth 0 - 50cm
Stream width 1.3
Hazards
Litter/Pollutants clothing,packets,plastic,polystyrene,other
A thin waxy film (scummy appearance) is covering 50 sq m of the pool between the footbridge and the willow stumps downstream. (There is a similar film in the Crosby arm where it emerges from drainpipes at Waverley Rd).

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