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 - 04-07-2024
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 03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Observation #15688 #15717 #15740 #15887 #15884 #15934 #15930 #16011 #16025 #16047 #16075 #16161 #16148 #16171 #16273 #16213 #16251

Observation summaries

Turbidity NTU

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 50.0 9.3 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 11.0 9.0 30.0 9.0 9.0 0.0 9.0
Bottom 38.0 10.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 11.0 9.0 19.0 9.0 9.0 0.0 9.0

pH

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 8.4 8.2 8.2 8.4 8.2 8.4 8.0 8.4 7.9 8.0 8.9 7.9 7.8 7.9 7.7 8.2 8.1
Bottom 8.4 8.2 8.1 8.4 8.2 8.3 8.0 8.4 7.9 7.8 9.1 7.9 7.9 8.1 8.0 8.2 8.2

Ammonia mg/L

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
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Enterococci orgs/100mL

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
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Temperature ° C

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 11.50 11.40 12.50 14.50 16.30 19.60 17.50 20.00 21.60 19.60 18.40 17.20 14.40 14.40 11.10 10.20 11.10
Bottom 11.30 11.40 12.40 14.60 16.30 19.30 17.50 20.10 21.30 19.70 18.50 17.30 14.10 14.50 11.60 11.80 11.10

Salinity ppt

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 11.70 14.40 32.60 36.10 37.40 26.60 36.90 35.10 35.00 36.90 37.70 34.40 28.80 32.50 3.20 3.50 33.70
Bottom 11.70 15.70 33.20 36.00 37.40 34.80 36.90 35.10 35.70 36.80 37.70 34.20 28.80 32.60 3.20 3.90 34.00

D.O. mg/L

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 10.73 84.60 9.95 9.38 8.91 7.72 9.27 7.82 7.33 8.31 8.20 8.37 9.47 9.24 10.18 9.80 10.55
Bottom 10.76 80.90 9.94 9.27 8.87 7.99 9.21 7.72 7.25 8.17 8.04 8.23 9.45 9.16 10.17 9.86 10.52

D.O. % Sat

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 97.90 84.60 94.50 91.60 91.50 83.80 96.90 86.40 83.80 90.00 86.90 86.20 91.80 89.40 93.30 90.00 93.00
Bottom 97.50 80.90 94.40 90.80 91.20 86.90 96.30 85.40 82.40 89.00 85.60 85.10 90.90 88.90 92.90 91.20 92.70

Conductivity mS/cm

03-08-2023 16-08-2023 07-09-2023 02-11-2023 15-11-2023 07-12-2023 20-12-2023 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
Top 16.68 20.60 46.60 51.50 53.40 38.00 52.70 50.20 50.00 52.70 53.90 49.20 41.20 46.40 4.60 5.00 48.10
Bottom 16.70 22.50 47.40 51.40 53.40 49.70 52.70 50.10 51.00 52.60 53.80 48.80 41.10 46.50 4.62 5.56 48.60
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