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Hamersley River - Quoin Head Rd HAMR-01

Source	Department of Water and Environment Regulation
Latest Sample Date	10-11-2008
Taxa count ORDER	6
Taxa count FAMILY	9
Taxa count ALT	9
Mayflies present?	0
	ORDER	FAMILY	ALT
SIGNAL	3.5	3.6	2.3
Weighted SIGNAL	4		3.6

Waterbug Land Use

	Category	ALUM Categories	Percent of upstream catchment	Area
	Natural	1.1.3 National park	70.59%	53,189,903,385m²
	Arable Farming	3.3.0 Cropping	16.54%	12,464,453,577m²
	Minimal Use	1.3.0 Other minimal use, 1.3.3 Residual native cover	9.97%	7,513,328,273m²
	Forestry	3.1.0 Plantation forests	1.65%	1,239,969,213m²
	Pastoral Farming	3.2.0 Grazing modified pastures	0.86%	650,615,022m²
	Water	6.1.0 Lake, 6.2.2 Water storage - intensive use/farm dams, 6.3.0 River, 6.5.0 Marsh/wetland	0.30%	226,290,006m²
	Residential And Infrastructure	5.7.2 Roads	0.06%	43,257,647m²
	Unknown	3.6.1 Degraded land	0.03%	22,253,934m²
Show minor land uses 5
				753,500,711m²

Waterbug sample history

Sampled on 10 November 2008

Taxa	Abundance	SIGNALT Grade
Oligochaeta LO	6	2
Oligochaeta (Unident.) LO999999	6
Amphipoda OP	6	3
Ceinidae (Unident.) OP029999	6

Unknown OT	1
Palaemonidae (Unident.) OT029999	1

Coleoptera QC	9	5
Dytiscidae (Unident.) QC099999	3
Hydrophilidae (Unident.) QC119999	6

Diptera QD	10	3
Ceratopogonidae (Unident.) QD099999	4

Orthocladiinae (Unident.) QDAF9999	2
Chironominae (Unident.) QDAJ9999	4
Trichoptera QT	12	8
Leptoceridae (Unident.) QT259999	12

SIGNALT	3.5
	ORDER
Weighted SIGNALT	4.2

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