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Hamersley River - South Coast Highway HAMR-03

Source	Department of Water and Environment Regulation
Latest Sample Date	10-11-2008
Taxa count ORDER	3
Taxa count FAMILY	5
Taxa count ALT	5
Mayflies present?	0
	ORDER	FAMILY	ALT
SIGNAL	2	2.4	1.8
Weighted SIGNAL	3		2.3

Waterbug Land Use

	Category	ALUM Categories	Percent of upstream catchment	Area
	Arable Farming	3.3.0 Cropping	48.86%	4,201,753,688m²
	Minimal Use	1.3.0 Other minimal use, 1.3.3 Residual native cover	35.32%	3,036,864,046m²
	Forestry	3.1.0 Plantation forests	13.04%	1,121,384,427m²
	Pastoral Farming	3.2.0 Grazing modified pastures	1.91%	164,019,662m²
	Water	6.1.0 Lake, 6.2.2 Water storage - intensive use/farm dams	0.64%	55,256,624m²
	Unknown	3.6.1 Degraded land	0.12%	10,251,229m²
	Residential And Infrastructure	5.7.2 Roads	0.11%	9,751,169m²
Show minor land uses 4
				85,992,808m²

Waterbug sample history

Sampled on 10 November 2008

Taxa	Abundance	SIGNALT Grade
Anostraca OD	4	1
Thamnocephalidae (Unident.) OD039999	4

Isopoda OR	10	2
Oniscidae sp.(Unident.) OR259999	10

Diptera QD	317	3
Culicidae (Unident.) QD079999	230

Ceratopogonidae (Unident.) QD099999	20

Chironominae (Unident.) QDAJ9999	67

SIGNALT	2.0
	ORDER
Weighted SIGNALT	2.3

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