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Appendix T-1. Results <strong>of</strong> habitat assessments conducted in the Black Warrior and Cahaba River Basins during ADEM's ALAMAP Program, 1998-2002.<br />

CU 0111 0111 0111 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112 0112<br />

Sub-watershed 050 130 130 020 030 070 070 090 090 100<br />

Station BW3U5-44 a BW7A4-42 d BW4U6-43 f BW3U6-38 BW8U4-50 g BW02U3-43 BW4U5-50 a BW01A3-27 BW4U4-39 BW6U6-54<br />

Appendix T-1--Page 3 <strong>of</strong> 4<br />

Date (YYMMDD) 010815 000802 020814 020814 000802 990825 010823 990824 000802 020820<br />

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

Width (ft) 1 10 53 50 5 5 40 35 15<br />

Canopy cover b S S MO MS S S MO MO S<br />

Depth (ft) Riffle 0.1 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.3 0.2<br />

Run 0.2 1.3 2.0 0.5 0.3 2.0 0.6 0.5<br />

Pool 0.5 5.0 1.0 1.5 2.5<br />

Substrate (%) Bedrock 0 0 18 40 20 0 20 40 70<br />

Boulder 0 0 5 1 24 30 15 5 0<br />

Cobble 1 30 16 20 24 40 20 10 1<br />

Gravel 45 35 33 4 20 10 15 10 1<br />

Sand 7 35 19 30 4 13 20 10 23<br />

Silt 5 0 5 1 5 4 8 15 1<br />

Detritus 20 0 3 1 3 3 2 10 3<br />

Clay 20 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0<br />

Organic silt 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1<br />

Habitat assessment form c RR GP RR RR RR RR RR RR<br />

Instream habitat quality 60 61 54 80 74 53 58 23<br />

Sediment deposition 45 68 65 90 90 65 73 83<br />

Sinuosity 60 20 5 90 100 10 50 13<br />

Bank and vegetative stability 63 76 98 95 79 75 46 79<br />

Riparian measurements 60 98 75 100 100 75 80 94<br />

Habitat assessment score 149 160 163 210 201 152 157 148<br />

% Maximum 62 73 68 88 84 63 65 62<br />

Assessment j Good Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Good Good Good<br />

a. Small stream; unable to measure flow<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. Stream no longer existed<br />

e. Not wadeable; No flow taken<br />

f. No flow; did not collect samples, habitat assessment, or flow<br />

g. No flow, standing pools only<br />

h. No flow measured<br />

i. Habitat assessment not conducted<br />

j. NG=no assessment guidelines; for 68b, used guidelines from adjacent subecoregion 68d; limited reference data available for 68f; 68f guidelines calculated from combintion <strong>of</strong> reference data from 68f, and adjacent subecoregions 65i,<br />

67f, and 68e.

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