Full Title
Macroinvertebrate Monitoring for the Mitta Mitta River
Contact Person
John Hawking
Project Team
James Wyatt, Lyn Smith, Kathie Le Busque
Funding Body
Goulburn-Murray Water
Duration
November 2005 to February 2008
Outcomes
An annual report will be produced for the client with an assessment of stream conditions.
Summary
The Mitta Mitta Monitoring project will monitor the macroinvertebrate communities in the Mitta Mitta Valley below Dartmouth Dam in order to detect and assess changes in river health resulting from either the operation of Dartmouth Dam or local catchment related impacts.
Four sites on the Mitta Mitta River and one site each on Snowy Creek, Wills Branch Creek and Callaghans Creek will be sampled twice yearly in spring and autumn using AUSRIVAS rapid bioassessment methods to collect the macroinvertebrate samples followed by laboratory identification to species level, or lowest possible taxonomic resolution.
In-situ physical-chemical data and water samples will be collected and physical habitat descriptions prepared for each sampling event.
