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05-06-2007 - 28-01-2026

	Bank Erosion Stability	Bank Vegetation	In Stream Cover	Riffles Pools Bends	Verge Vegetation
January 2026	Poor	Poor	Poor	Fair	VeryPoor
23°c Very still, sunny with clouds starting to form, smokey haze due to bushfires in the Otways. (Yesterdays temperature reached 43°c here) There were a few small birds and some Magpies that flew away as i pulled up, lots of annoying flies that wouldn't fly away. The creek is not flowing, there are large pools looking downstream, stained geen near the bridge, stained brown or muddy looking further down. Upstrea i can spot some wet mud amongst the rushes but no pools. I have marked the in-stream cover down from 2024 as there appears to be less in-stream cover looking downstream from back then. (The safety rail on the bridge has fallen over)
January 2024	Poor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
Please refer to diary files and photos for notes and photos on habitat survey.
January 2022	Poor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
There appears to be a nearly continuous pool of water looking downstream very scummy at the bridge but clears up as you look further down however upstream the water is mainly dried up. No sign of any wildlife today it is 29°c. There is some fresh gorse weeds growing near the bridge on the bank and verge. I will attach some photos in diary.
January 2022	Poor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
There appears to be a nearly continuous pool of water looking downstream. Very scummy at bridge but it clears up as you look further down, however upstream the water is mainly dried up. No sign of any wildlife today it is 29 degrees. There is some fresh gorse weeds growing near the bridge on the bank. I will attach some photos in diary.
January 2019	Poor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
The water is not flowing, there are large connected ponds downstream of the bridge with a scummy appearence close to the bridge which changes to a stained brown appearence as you look further away. Looking upstream mostly hidden by the instream rushes there appears to be some small puddles drying out to damp ground as they emerge from the rushes. In a nearby upstream tree I can see a Magpie feeding its baby while a Wattle bird watches on. There are a lot of Butterflies around and I can hear other birds singing in the distance, there are no farm animals to be seen today. There is a Gorse and a Blackberry bush just starting to take off near the monitoring station. Bank errosion does not appear to be any worse than usual. Photos in Diary
January 2018	Poor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
Erosion on the southbank upstream side of bridge (referred to last year) seems to have steadied off this year. Site looks much the same as last year. There are only pools of water here and there with the pools close to the bridge appearing scummy and green, the bigger pools further away appear to be a lot clearer. There are a few sheep in the north east paddock, not much else around that i can see.
January 2017	Poor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
Overall not a very nice looking site. Paddocks up and dowwnstream from the bridge run into the creek with no fences to limit stock access. The creek is not flowing, there are only pools of water (some of which are large pools mainly on the downstream side of the bridge) here and there which is often how this site looks. Errosion on the southbank upstream side of the bridge seems to have accelerated particularly in one spot where it seems that livestock could have easy access now. There were a couple of Galahs sitting on the dead tree at the bridge when I arrived but nothing else around that I can see not even any livestock anywhere. Photos in diary.
January 2016	VeryPoor	Poor	Fair	Fair	VeryPoor
See diary for comments and photos. Overall this site looks poor. There has been no significant improvement since I first looked at this site in June 2007. Although the erosion appears to be a little worse in places since then. It really has not changed a lot when you compare old photos (which surprises me given the exposed banks and the flood events we have had over that time).
February 2010	Good	Good	Fair	Fair	Excellent
Photos on record.
January 2009	Excellent	Good	Good	Fair	Excellent
The creek is not fenced from stock at all. There were sheep grazing in the paddock to the east of the bridge. It appears there has been stock on the west side of bridge south paddock. All the banks are badly eroded except for the bank on the west sie of the bridge in the north paddock.The rushes to the west are still about the same as last year. The creek is not flowing. The grass is dead. Could not see any wildife. No significant changes from last year. The gum trees further up and down stream look healthy. The tree nest to the bridge is definitely dead as it has been since I have been testing this site.
September 2008	Good	Good	Good	Fair	Excellent
see photo's. Much the same as last year. Except the grass is greener for and the rushes looking West are a bit bigger.
June 2007	Good	Good	Good	Fair	Excellent
sheep, cows near creek. Dead tree. Young gum tree and old gum tree looking westward. Lots of rushes in creek and on bank lookingto the West. Looking towards the East banks eroded no plant life.large gums further East.

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