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CO_SWA145 Barwon River Catchment

Swan Bay Sub Catchment

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CO_Bellarine Catchment Network

Habitat Scores

Explain for me
06-03-2006 - 01-07-2020
Bank Erosion Stability Bank Vegetation In Stream Cover Riffles Pools Bends Verge Vegetation
July 2020 Excellent Good Poor N/A Good

Verge Vegetation:

Australian Salt grass Distichlis distichophylla

Beaded glasswort Sarcocornia quinqueflora

Thyme rice flower Pimelea serpyllifolia

Bower spinach Tetragonia implexicoma

Old man's beard Clematis vitalba

Seaberry salt bush Chenopodium candolleanum

Ruby saltbush Enchylaena tomentosa

Coastal beard heath Leucopogon parviflorus

Pigface Carpobrotus glaucescens

Dianella sp.

Plantain sp.

Bridal creeper Asparagus asparagoides

Pussy Tails grass Lagurus ovatus

 

Bank Vegetation

Australian salt grass Distichlis distichophylla

Beaded glasswort Sarcocornia quinqueflora

Bower spinach Tetragonia implexicoma

Old man's beard Clematis vitalba

Shrubby glasswort Tecticornia arbuscula

Samphire Salicornia europaea

Dianella sp.

 

Fauna 

Silver gull

Black Cormorant

 

July 2020 Good Good Poor N/A Good

Bank: Rounded noon flower, Beaded glass wort, Trailing heimichroa, Shrubby glasswort, sea primrose, coast bonefruit

Verge: Thyme rice flower, Ruby salt bush, Sea rush, Bower spinach, Common Boobyella, Polygala Myrtifolia, Clematis Microfolia, Hare tail/Pussy tail, Rounded noon flower, Bridal Creeper, Buckhorn plantain, Coastal Beard Heath, Pigsface, Oxalis, Knobby Club Rush, Poa Labillardierei, Italian Buckthorn, Plantago Lancialata, Thatch Sawsedge, Austral salt grass, Sea-berry salt bush, Moss, Cooch grass, Bidgy-Widgy, Swamp Wattle, Fumatory, Prickly Lettuce, Horse Weed, Moonah

In stream cover: Algae, Sea grass, Beaded Glass Wort

July 2020 Poor Fair Fair Poor Fair

Verge Vegetation: 

  • Coastal beard heath
  • Dianella (coast flax lilly)
  • bidgee widgee
  • sallow wattle
  • plantain
  • drooping sheoak
  • windmill grass
  • lomandra longifolia
  • wattle ssp
  • myoporum insulare (common boobialla)
  • Pussy tail grass
  • clematis mycrophylla
  • Polygala Myrtifolia (Myrtle leaf milkwort)
  • seaberry saltbush Rhagodia candolleana
  • brasica

Bank Veg:

  • Bidgee widgee
  • Dianella (coastal flax lilly)
  • Distichlis distichophylla (Austral salt grass)
  • Knobby club rush
  • Common vetch
  • Buckhorn plantain
  • Typha orientalis

Fauna

  • Common eastern froglet
November 2006
March 2006 Poor Poor Good Good Poor
Grasses and Sedges. Various bushes. ? Identity

Physical Chemical Tests

Dissolved Oxygen mg/L
Explain for me 18-12-2002 to 21-10-2024
6.00 mg/L
Median
9.90mg/L
Latest
Nitrate - Nitrogen
Explain for me 04-07-2000 to 15-10-2014
10.00 mg/L N
Median
10.00mg/L N
Latest
Nitrite NO2
Explain for me 08-11-2010 to 15-10-2014
1.00 mg/L
Median
1.00mg/L
Latest
Temperature - WATER
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 21-10-2024
15.0 ° C
Median
23.5° C
Latest
Temperature - AIR
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 21-10-2024
16.5 ° C
Median
23.0° C
Latest
pH
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 21-10-2024
8.40 pH Units
Median
8.40pH Units
Latest
Electrical Conductivity
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 21-10-2024
62700.00 µS/cm
Median
41400.00µS/cm
Latest
Reactive Phosphate (mg/L)
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 21-10-2024
0.020 mg/L P
Median
0.010mg/L P
Latest
Dissolved Oxygen % Saturation
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 21-10-2024
63 %
Median
136%
Latest
Turbidity - FTU
Explain for me 08-11-2010 to 21-10-2024
10.00 FTU
Median
51.00FTU
Latest
Turbidity - NTU
Explain for me 22-10-1999 to 24-10-2023
15 NTU
Median
84NTU
Latest
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