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Appendix O-2--Page 1 <strong>of</strong> 1<br />

Appendix O-2. Bioassessment results from sites assessed in the Black Warrior and Cahaba River basins as part <strong>of</strong> ADEM's Ecoregional Reference Reach Program,<br />

1998-2002.<br />

CU 0202 0202 0202 0109 0110 0110 0110 0110 0110 0110 0110 0111 0111 0112 0113 0113 0113<br />

Sub-watershed 080 080 090 080 010 010 030 040 040 080 080 070 070 100 030 030 030<br />

Station MAYB-1 MAYB-1 FRMB-8 MRTC-1 TPSL-1 SF-2 BRSL-3 INMW-1 INMW-1 BLVC-1 BLVC-1 HNMB-4 HNMB-4 BERT-4 SSB-1 SSB-1 SSB-1<br />

Subecoregion 67h 67h 67f 68e 68e 68e 68e 68e 68e 68d 68d 67f 67f 68f 65i 65i 65i<br />

Drainage area (mi 2 ) 12 12 8 9 15 125 9 5 5 9 9 7 7 12 21 21 21<br />

Macroinvertebrate community<br />

Date (yymmdd) 990615 020515 020516 020620 020612 020612 020612 010711 020613 980603 020618 000613 020529 020604 980506 990615 020515<br />

# EPT families 11 14 16 8 8 12 14 12 13 13 9 19 18 7 13 14 14<br />

Assessment Good Excellent Excellent Fair Fair Good Good Good Good Excellent Good Excellent Excellent Fair Good Excellent Excellent<br />

Fish community<br />

Date (yymmdd) 020618 020611 020612 020716 020724 020716 020724 020620 020613 020611<br />

Richness measures<br />

# species 22 18 14 11 19 13 12 12 3 16<br />

# darter species 3 3 2 2 7 3 3 1 0 3<br />

# minnow species 7 7 5 3 3 3 3 5 2 6<br />

# sunfish species 4 2 3 2 4 3 5 3 0 2<br />

# sucker species 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2<br />

# intolerant species 3 2 3 2 5 0 1 2 0 3<br />

Composition measures<br />

% sunfish 11 9 6 10 31 17 23 5 0 3<br />

% omnivores and herbivores 26 8 65 29 11 23 27 24 8 6<br />

% insectivorous cyprinids 44 75 18 31 10 0 2 36 0 64<br />

% top carnivores 6 3 0 4 5 4 1 0 51 0<br />

Population measures<br />

# collected per hour 358 274 576 186 239 70 138 184 284 214<br />

% disease and anomalies 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0<br />

IBI score 50 52 40 42 42 36 36 38 32 46<br />

Assessment Good Good Fair Fair Fair Fair/ Poor Fair/ Poor Fair/<br />

Poor<br />

a. No flow; Assessment not conducted<br />

b. Canopy cover: S=shaded; MS=mostly shaded; 50/50=50% shaded; MO=mostly open; O=open<br />

c. Habitat assessment form: RR=riffle/run (Barbour et al. 1999); GP=glide/pool (Barbour et al. 1999)<br />

d. Assessment guidelines based on data collected at reference sites, 1991-2003; NG=no assessment guidelines<br />

e. Bridge construction; No assessment conducted<br />

f. Algal mats/Decaying algae<br />

g. Beaverdam; No flow; Assessment not conducted<br />

Poor<br />

Good/<br />

Fair

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