Site details

Overview

Estuary Barwon River Estuary
CMA Corangamite CMA
Type Physico-Chemical
Site code B2
Site name Boat Ramp Jetty
Nearest road and town River Parade, Barwon Heads
Description Fishing jetty adjacent boat ramp.
Site access Via Barwon Heads boat ramp carpark
Land use
  • Native Bushland
  • Recreational
  • Urban Residential
Land use description This site is surrounded by a large section of Mangroves, the Barwon Heads boat ramp and the boat ramp carpark.
Status Active
Observation history 20-01-2008 - 18-12-2024
Photo of B2 monitoring site
Photo os phys/chem monitoring site B2

Map

Observations

C Estuary is closed to the sea. O Estuary is open to the sea. P Perched
Turbidity tubes do not measure below 9 NTU; Chart values of 9 should be interpreted as < 9 NTU

Observations

Date 01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Observation #16011 #16025 #16047 #16075 #16161 #16148 #16171 #16273 #16213 #16251 #16348 #16385 #16467 #16479 #16536 #16549 #16563 #16608 #16631

Observation summaries

Turbidity NTU

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 9.0 9.0 9.0 11.0 9.0 30.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 15.0 21.0 14.0 11.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 0.0
Bottom 9.0 9.0 9.0 11.0 9.0 19.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 13.0 21.5 13.0 13.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 0.0

pH

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 8.4 7.9 8.0 8.9 7.9 7.8 7.9 7.7 8.2 8.1 8.3 8.2 8.0 8.3 8.6 8.1 8.2 8.4 7.8
Bottom 8.4 7.9 7.8 9.1 7.9 7.9 8.1 8.0 8.2 8.2 8.3 8.3 8.0 8.4 8.6 8.2 8.2 8.4 8.0

Ammonia mg/L

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
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Enterococci orgs/100mL

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
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Bottom

Temperature ° C

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 20.00 21.60 19.60 18.40 17.20 14.40 14.40 11.10 10.20 11.10 11.60 13.30 12.70 16.00 17.10 16.70 16.30 20.30 18.80
Bottom 20.10 21.30 19.70 18.50 17.30 14.10 14.50 11.60 11.80 11.10 11.70 13.20 12.40 15.60 16.80 16.50 16.40 20.30 18.80

Salinity ppt

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 35.10 35.00 36.90 37.70 34.40 28.80 32.50 3.20 0.00 33.70 31.50 22.40 24.20 17.10 22.60 37.30 36.60 34.40 38.00
Bottom 35.10 35.70 36.80 37.70 34.20 28.80 32.60 3.20 0.00 34.00 34.10 23.30 30.70 18.00 0.00 37.20 36.60 34.40 38.00

D.O. mg/L

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 7.82 7.33 8.31 8.20 8.37 9.47 9.24 10.18 9.80 10.55 9.95 9.73 9.89 9.56 8.52 8.81 8.97 8.19 8.50
Bottom 7.72 7.25 8.17 8.04 8.23 9.45 9.16 10.17 9.86 10.52 9.91 9.61 9.95 9.37 8.87 8.90 8.19 8.43

D.O. % Sat

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 86.40 83.80 90.00 86.90 86.20 91.80 89.40 93.30 90.00 93.00 91.30 92.60 93.00 95.50 87.30 90.60 89.80 90.20 90.20
Bottom 85.40 82.40 89.00 85.60 85.10 90.90 88.90 92.90 91.20 92.70 91.10 91.30 93.30 92.60 90.10 89.30 89.90 89.40

Conductivity mS/cm

01-02-2024 21-02-2024 07-03-2024 20-03-2024 04-04-2024 02-05-2024 15-05-2024 06-06-2024 19-06-2024 04-07-2024 17-07-2024 21-08-2024 05-09-2024 03-10-2024 16-10-2024 07-11-2024 20-11-2024 05-12-2024 18-12-2024
Top 50.20 50.00 52.70 53.90 49.20 41.20 46.40 4.60 48.10 45.00 32.00 34.60 24.40 32.30 53.30 52.30 49.20 54.30
Bottom 50.10 51.00 52.60 53.80 48.80 41.10 46.50 4.62 48.60 48.70 33.30 43.80 25.70 53.20 52.30 49.20 54.30
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