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Arthur River above Waratah River Junction ARTH47

Source	Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
Latest Sample Date	08-10-2007
Taxa count ORDER	5
Taxa count FAMILY	10
Taxa count ALT	10
Mayflies present?	0
	ORDER	FAMILY	ALT
SIGNAL	6.4	6.4	5.8
Weighted SIGNAL	6.8		7.7

Waterbug Land Use

	Category	ALUM Categories	Percent of upstream catchment	Area
	Natural	1.1.5 Habitat/species management area, 1.1.7 Other conserved area, 1.2.0 Managed resource protection	89.15%	4,892,013,618m²
	Forestry	2.2.0 Production native forests	7.05%	386,961,527m²
	Minimal Use	1.3.3 Residual native cover	1.78%	97,490,307m²
	Residential And Infrastructure	5.4.1 Urban residential, 5.4.3 Rural residential without agriculture, 5.5.2 Public services, 5.7.2 Roads, 5.7.3 Railways	1.03%	56,744,358m²
	Water	6.1.1 Lake - conservation, 6.3.1 River - conservation	0.46%	25,497,465m²
	Unknown	3.6.1 Degraded land	0.27%	14,998,509m²
	Mining	5.8.1 Mines, 5.8.2 Quarries	0.25%	13,498,658m²
Show minor land uses 5
				54,872,044m²

Waterbug sample history

Sampled on 8 October 2007

Taxa	Abundance	SIGNALT Grade
Acarina MM	2	6
Mites (Unident.) MM999999	2

Coleoptera QC	2	5
Elmidae Adults QC34999A	2

Diptera QD	4	3
Simuliidae (Unident.) QD109999	1

Orthocladiinae (Unident.) QDAF9999	1
Chironominae (Unident.) QDAJ9999	2
Plecoptera QP	9	10
Eustheniidae (Unident.) QP019999	4
Gripopterygidae (Unident.) QP039999	5
Trichoptera QT	3	8
Hydrobiosidae (Unident.) QT019999	1
Hydropsychidae (Unident.) QT069999	1
Conoesucidae (Unident.) QT159999	1

SIGNALT	6.4
	ORDER
Weighted SIGNALT	7.0

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