Surface Water - Alabama Department of Environmental Management

Appendix P-1. Physical characteristics and habitat quality of sites assessed in the Black Warrior and Cahaba River basins as part of ADEM's §303(d)
Monitoring Program, 1998-2003.
CU 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0113
Sub-watershed 030 030 050 050 050 070 080 080 100 140
Station MUDJ-2 VA1 BYET-65a LYC-1 LYCT-1 JKC-1 DNC-1 PGC-1 NORF-28c NHC-2
Appendix P-1--Page 6 of 6
Date (YYMMDD)
Subecoregion
Width (ft)
020523 020523 020417 f 990616 020417 990616 990622 990622 020528 000210
68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 68f NG 65a
30 96 30 30 15 25 15 30 12
Canopy cover b S ? MS MO MO S 50/50 50/50 MO 50/50
Depth (ft)
Substrate (%)
Riffle
Run
Pool
Bedrock
Boulder
Cobble
Gravel
Sand
Silt
Detritus
Clay
Organic silt
0.5 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3
1.5 1.0 4.0 1.3 0.8 0.5 0.5 2.0 1.0
2.8 5.0 2.0 1.8 1.0 3.5 3.0
40 60 78 80 5 0 0 60 0
10 15 1 0 3 5 1 5 0
10 10 3 0 25 10 25 5 0
10 5 0 5 56 60 66 10 2
18 5 5 10 5 3 1 15 29
5 3 10 0 3 20 5 2 22
4 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 4
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40
0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3
Habitat assessment form c, d RR RR GP RR RR RR RR RR GP
Habitat assessment score
% Maximum
Instream habitat quality
Sediment deposition
Sinuosity
Bank and vegetative stability
Riparian measurements
65 76 10 15 78 57 65 63 15
74 80 53 26 90 38 60 64 75
75 85 30 33 100 25 95 63 40
83 90 70 36 60 43 83 33 20
95 91 23 48 73 85 88 90 30
189 203 88 73 189 131 176 156 73
79 85 40 30 79 55 73 65 33
Assessment e Excellent Excellent Fair Poor Excellent Good Excellent Good Poor
a. No flow; Assessment not conducted
b. Canopy cover: S=shaded; MS=mostly shaded; 50/50=50% shaded; MO=mostly open; O=open
c. Habitat assessment form: RR=riffle/run (Barbour et al. 1999); GP=glide/pool (Barbour et al. 1999)
d. e. NG=assessment NGP=no glide/pool guidelines; assessment for 68b, guidelines; used guidelines habitat assessment from adjacent ratingsubecoregion based on riffle/run 68d; limited scoring reference criteria data available for 68f; 68f guidelines calculated from combintion of reference data from
68f, and adjacent subecoregions 65i, 67f, and 68e.
f. nonwadeable; no habitat assessment conducted