Site Assessment Report Site Assessment Report A. Site Description CABIN Study Name CABIN Site Code Sampling Date Know Your Watershed (KYW) Basin Province / Territory Terrestrial Ecological Classification Coordinates (decimal degrees) Altitude Feature Name Stream Order BC-Elk River Tributaries-Elk River Alliance Alx-01 Oct 29 2013 Central Kootenay British Columbia Montane Cordillera Ecozone Northern Continental Divide Ecoregion 49.67396 N, 114.77993 W 4002 Alexander Creek 4 Figure 1. Location Map Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Site Assessment Report Across Reach Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Site Assessment Report Down Stream Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Site Assessment Report Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Site Assessment Report Substrate Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Site Assessment Report Up Stream Figure 2. Site Photographs B. CABIN Assessment Results Model Name Analysis Date Taxanomic Level Predictor Variables Reference Groups Number of Reference Sites Group Error Rate Overall Model Error Rate Probability of Group Membership CABIN Assessment of Alx-01 on Oct 29, 2013 Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM REFERENCE MODEL SUMMARY Columbia-Okanagan Preliminary March 2010 April 10, 2015 Family Depth-Avg Latitude Longitude Reg-Ice Reg-SlopeLT30% 1 2 9 22.2% 0.1% 3 43 24.5% 17 22.2% 26.4% 0.2% 85.7% Mildly Divergent 4 5 12 25.0% 33 32.4% 12.4% 1.6% Site Assessment Report Figure 3. CABIN ordination assessment of the test site with the predicted group of reference sites. Each axis represents the relative abundance of the entire benthic invertebrate community with different organisms weighted differently on each axis. Sample Information Sampling Device Mesh Size Sampling Time Taxonomist Identification Date Subsampling Device Proportion Subsampled Kick Net 400 3 4/100 Community Structure Sample Data Phylum Annelida Class Oligochaeta Arthropoda Arachnida Insecta Order Haplotaxida Lumbriculida Trombidiformes Coleoptera Diptera Ephemeroptera Plecoptera Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Family Naididae Lumbriculidae Lebertiidae Elmidae Chironomidae Empididae Psychodidae Tipulidae Ameletidae Baetidae Ephemerellidae Heptageniidae Capniidae Chloroperlidae Nemouridae Raw Count 1 2 2 1 49 1 7 3 2 17 54 28 3 4 138 Mean Count 25.0 50.0 50.0 25.0 1,225.0 25.0 175.0 75.0 50.0 425.0 1,350.0 700.0 75.0 100.0 3,450.0 Site Assessment Report Community Structure Sample Data Phylum Class Order Trichoptera Family Perlodidae Taeniopterygidae Apataniidae Brachycentridae Glossosomatidae Hydropsychidae Rhyacophilidae Uenoidae Total Raw Count 3 18 3 1 3 1 8 1 350 Mean Count 75.0 450.0 75.0 25.0 75.0 25.0 200.0 25.0 8,750.0 Site Metrics Metric Name Alx-01 Bray-Curtis Distance 0.59 Predicted Group Reference Mean ±SD 0.4 ± 0.2 1.0 1.9 ± 1.3 0.9 8750.0 0.9 ± 0.1 5757.3 ± 4889.9 15.0 23.0 11.5 ± 1.2 17.1 ± 2.4 Biotic Indices Long-lived taxa Number Of Individuals No. EPT individuals/Chironomids+EPT Individuals Total Abundance Richness EPT taxa (no) Total No. of Taxa D. Habitat Description Variable Alx-01 Predicted Group Reference Mean ±SD Channel Depth-Avg (cm) Depth-BankfullMinusWetted (cm) Depth-Max (cm) Macrophyte (PercentRange) Reach-%CanopyCoverage (PercentRange) Reach-DomStreamsideVeg (Category (1-4)) Reach-Pools (Binary) Reach-Rapids (Binary) Reach-Riffles (Binary) Reach-StraightRun (Binary) Slope (m/m) Veg-Coniferous (Binary) Veg-Deciduous (Binary) Veg-GrassesFerns (Binary) Veg-Shrubs (Binary) Velocity-Avg (m/s) Velocity-Max (m/s) Width-Bankfull (m) Width-Wetted (m) XSEC-VelMethod (Category (1-3)) 30.0 12.00 60.0 0 1.00 4 0 0 1 0 0.0060000 1 1 1 1 0.55 0.99 13.2 11.5 1 22.5 ± 10.5 67.33 ± 71.65 32.9 ± 17.9 0±0 0.94 ± 0.80 3±1 0±1 0±1 1±0 1±0 0.0235102 ± 0.0284557 1±0 1±0 1±0 1±0 0.51 ± 0.25 0.75 ± 0.28 15.6 ± 12.8 10.2 ± 7.0 2±1 0.00000 0.46949 ± 1.15785 0 3 37 9 49 1 1 5.05 4.9 5 7 0±0 6±7 61 ± 27 1±2 31 ± 28 0±0 1±3 79.45 ± 47.98 73.9 ± 48.0 6±2 6±2 Landcover Reg-Ice (%) Substrate Data %Bedrock (%) %Boulder (%) %Cobble (%) %Gravel (%) %Pebble (%) %Sand (%) %Silt+Clay (%) D50 (cm) Dg (cm) Dominant-1st (Category(0-9)) Dominant-2nd (Category(0-9)) Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM Site Assessment Report D. Habitat Description Variable Alx-01 Embeddedness (Category(1-5)) PeriphytonCoverage (Category(1-5)) SurroundingMaterial (Category(0-9)) 3 3 3 Predicted Group Reference Mean ±SD 4±1 2±1 4±2 37.93000 37.93000 27.92073 ± 14.83033 27.74594 ± 10.84742 254.0000000 11.0000000 8.6 0.5000000 -2.0 1.1000000 0.0000000 0.0049500 0.0350000 0.1600000 0.0015000 186.8500000 ± 84.0864011 10.4922222 ± 0.8833463 8.0 ± 0.6 0.5604289 ± 1.4627232 10.5 ± 4.2 6.6716667 ± 2.0277755 0.0000000 ± 0.0000000 0.0023889 ± 0.0063351 0.0130000 ± 0.0088111 0.0245003 ± 0.0229452 0.0032778 ± 0.0061816 Topography Reg-SlopeLT30% (%) SlopeLT30% (%) Water Chemistry General-Conductivity (uS/cm) General-DO (mg/L) General-pH (pH) General-SolidsTSS (mg/L) General-TempAir (Degrees Celsius) General-TempWater (Degrees Celsius) General-Turbidity (NTU) Nitrogen-NO2 (mg/L) Nitrogen-NO2+NO3 (mg/L) Nitrogen-NO3 (mg/L) Phosphorus-TP (mg/L) Last Modified Date: Friday, April 10, 2015 3:59 PM