Module 2 - Longitudinal Survey

Pool Habitat

Stream Name: MCCARTNEY CREEK Survey Date: 1999-03-20
Organization Name: North Shore Streamkeepers Project Name:
Stream Segment #: Stream Section #:
Data Entered by: TIM MORTEN Survey ID: 34

Step 4.1 Longitudinal Survey, Measurements

Length of Survey Site Minimum: 29.400 (m) Actual: 40.000 (m) Photos Taken? no
Upstream Survey Boundary Minimum: 14.700 (m) Actual:26.500 (m) Photos Taken? no
Downstream Survey Boundary Minimum: 14.700 (m) Actual: 13.500(m) Photos Taken? no

* distance upstream (Up) of benchmark

Habitat Unit Typebottom of habitat unit*top of habitat unit*length of habitat unit (m)% slopePhoto frame #
Riffle 1.400 1.400 4.000
Pool 5.400 1.400 3.400 2.000
Riffle 8.300 5.400 2.200 7.000
Pool 10.700 8.300 2.500 4.000
Riffle 23.100 10.700 12.300 7.000
Riffle 1.200 1.500 7.000
Pool 1.200 5.700 4.500 0.500
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* distance downstream (Dn) of benchmark

Habitat Unit Typebottom of habitat unit*top of habitat unit*length of habitat unit (m)% slopePhoto frame #
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Step 4.2 Longitudinal Survey, Habitat Quality

1. Streambed material (from 25 samples)
Fines: 12.00 %
Gravel: 52.00 %
Cobble: 20.00 %
Boulder: 16.00 %
Bedrock: %
Cobble and Boulder Total: 0.00 %
2. % Embeddness 37.00 %
Instream cover
Large Woody debris: 7.00 pieces
Rooted cutbank: number of instances 6.00
4. Percent Pool Habitat
Average % Survey Slope 4.50 %
Total length of pools: 10.4
Length of Reference Site: 27.8
Pool Habitat: 37.41 %
5. Off Channel Habitat
Details: LIMITED TO HIGH WATER.
Size:
Present: none
6. Bank Stability
Active Erosion Left Bank:
Active Erosion Left Bank Length:
Active Erosion Right Bank:
Active Erosion Right Bank Length:
Bank Stabilzation Left Bank:
Bank Stabilzation Left Bank Length:
Bank Stabilzation Right Bank:
Bank Stabilzation Right Bank Length:
Slides Reaching Channel Left Bank:
Slides Reaching Channel Left Bank Length:
Slides Reaching Channel Right Bank:
Slides Reaching Channel Right Bank Length:
7. Length of bank with no vegetation (m)
Left Bank:
Right Bank:
8. Overhead Canopy
Bankfull Channel covered by overhanging branches: 80.00 %
9. Riparian zone
# of channel widths: 10.00
Coniferous trees: 0.25
Deciduous trees: 0.5
Shrubs: 0.25
Grass: 0.25
Adjacent Land Use and Impacts:
PARK LAND AT THE MOMENT. OWNED BY CMHC DEVELOPMENT COMING AREA IS USED BY MOUNTAIN BIKERS, WALKERS, DOGS. WAS A SHOOTING RANGE. LOTS OF OLD AMMO AROUND.