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CO_SWA138 Barwon River Catchment

Swan Bay Sub Catchment

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Monitoring organisation
CO_Bellarine Catchment Network

Habitat Scores

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23-09-2008 - 19-01-2012
Bank Erosion Stability Bank Vegetation In Stream Cover Riffles Pools Bends Verge Vegetation
January 2012 Good Good Fair Poor Fair
Birds present: Black-winged Stilts, Eurasian Coots, Black Swans, Plovers, Superb Fairy-wrens, Willie Wagtail, Swallow (sp), Masked Lapwings. Vegetation included Beaded Glasswort and Mimulus repens? (Creeping Monkey-flower).
January 2011 Fair Good VeryPoor VeryPoor Fair
This is a lake not a stream, therefore instream cover and riffles/pool/bends are not applicable. Birds: black swans, pied cormorants, yellow breasted robin, swallows, pacific black duck Many dragonflies. Pobblebonk frogs. Many more invertebrates present due to high water levels and lower salinity levels
September 2008 Fair Poor Good Good Good
Saltmarsh: Beaded Glasswort (Sarcocornia quinqueflora?), Sea Rush (Juncus leraussi?), Swamp Weed (Selliena radiacans?), Trailing Hemichroa (Hemichroa pentandra?) Banded stilts, swans, red capped plover, red necked stints, Sacred Ibis.

Water Bugs

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WaterWatch Method
09-04-2011 - 09-04-2011
Date Taxa Count Total score Rating

Physical Chemical Tests

Dissolved Oxygen mg/L
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
9.20 mg/L
Median
4.60mg/L
Latest
Temperature - WATER
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
15.0 ° C
Median
15.0° C
Latest
Temperature - AIR
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
16.0 ° C
Median
18.0° C
Latest
pH
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
8.50 pH Units
Median
8.80pH Units
Latest
Electrical Conductivity
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 19-12-2022
18700.00 µS/cm
Median
10140.00µS/cm
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Reactive Phosphate (mg/L)
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
0.015 mg/L P
Median
0.110mg/L P
Latest
Dissolved Oxygen % Saturation
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
86 %
Median
48%
Latest
Turbidity - NTU
Explain for me 23-09-2008 to 21-10-2014
10 NTU
Median
22NTU
Latest
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