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2003-017-00 EXP ISEMP / WDOE CHAR. CHANNEL/RIPARIAN HAB. QUALITY

3/1/2008

3/31/2009

157. Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data

Work Element Usage Report

C: 157 - Stream habitat survey

NCTE- This WE was extended to 3/31/2009 to allow the WDOE sufficient time to enter and QAQC data from the 2008 field season that was behind schedule due to problems with the ATM.

Conduct single habitat survey at each of 50 randomly selected stream sites in the Wenatchee basin as identified by the Regional Tech Team (RTT) and NOAA Fisheries; reviewed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Chelan County Conservation District.

Coordination will be necessary with other Project participants. Specifically, other ISEMP agencies (e.g. USFS, Yakama Nation) will be conducting snorkel surveys at the same sites that WDOE will be conducting habitat surveys and will need WDOE-collected habitat data for their work. Therefore coordination with snorkellers will inlude the following:

1) All habitat surveys will be conducted prior to snorkel suveys and habitat crews will be responsible for reach layout and monumenting.

"The X-site and the upstream and downstream ends of the reach will be measured with. GPS and recorded as latitude and longitude (decimal degrees). For purposes of re-measurements, these points will also be photographed, marked with permanent markers, and identified with notes/diagrams. Permanent location of sites on private lands and within Wilderness will be agreed upon with landowners. Minor modifications to the marking procedure may be necessitated by landowner requirements. For example Wilderness rules rules forbid placement or orange stakes. These situations would call for ground-level markers accompanied by aluminum flashing nailed into nearby
trees.

2) Snorkel and habitat surveys will need to occur within a short period of time to minimize changes in habitat that occur over time. (e.g. seasonal flow changes, storm events, etc.).

3) WDOE and Recon/Snorkel Coordinator, or designated alternates, will confer weekly during the field season to discuss reconnaissance, site-layout, the previous week's progress, and to determine subsequent week's sampling plans.

4) In the event that significant changes in sampling plans occur, WDOE and Recon Coordinator, or designated alternates, will discuss, in-person or by phone and prior to performing additional sampling, how to best proceed to insure adequate coordination of snorkel and habitat surveys.

5) WDOE will provide photocopies of raw field data forms to Recon Coordinator as practicable.

6) WDOE will provide ISEMP snorkel agencies with complete, error-proofed habitat data by November 30, 2007 for use in fish abundance estimates.

Quality controlled raw data and quality controlled, georeferenced, summarized stream habitat survey data, including GPS locations, will be entered and stored in Microsoft Access databases known at Automated Template Modules (ATMs) that will be provided by NOAA Fisheries. Data will be uploaded by November 30 2008 to NOAA Fisheries using the ATM and notice will be provided to BPA and Terraqua, Inc. when the data has been uploaded. The contractor will be responsible for all quality assurance/quality control steps necessary to ensure that data is properly collected and entered into the ATM.
General
Characteristics Specific Indicators Data to be Delivered for Each of 50 Sites (1 visit each)
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Site Description Site number (from Sample Site List); stream name, short
site location description (e.g., Trout Creek upstream of
Pine Campground); actual coordinates (decimal degrees)
of x-site; field crew member name; date(s) sampled; time
began sampling; general weather description on day of
sampling, narrative comments about the site including
any unusual habitat features or notes regarding site
location or access.
Habitat Quality Dominant substrate Raw pebble count data at 105 measurement points;
site-calculated dominant substrate size.
Embeddedness Raw embeddedness data at 55 measurement points;
site-averaged embeddedness percent.
LWD Site-total count of LWD pieces within each of three
size categories (pieces/km).
Pools Site-total count pools (pools/km).
Residual pool depth Raw residual depth of each pool; site-average residual
of all site pools.
Fish cover Percent class by area of stream covered by each of 9
cover types at 11 measurement points; site-averaged
percent class for each of 9 cover types.
Off-channels habitats List of each off-channel habitat unit by type; length of side-
channels; site-total count of each of 3 types of off-channel
habitats; site-total length of off-channel habitats.
Macroinvertebrate Macroinvertebrate sample.
Channel Condition Stream gradient Straight-line distance between transect/thalweg
intersections; straight line length of sample-site;
elevation drop between transect/thalweg intersections;
total elevation drop over sample site; site averaged
stream gradient.
Width/depth ratio Site averaged width/depth ratio.
Wetted width Site averaged wetted width.
Bankfull width Site averaged bankfull width.
Bank stability Percent of the lineal distance of bank that is actively
eroding at the active channel height at 22
measurement points; site-averaged percent of the
lineal distance of bank that is actively eroding at the
active channel height.
Entrenchment Ratio Entrenchment ratio calculated at each measuring point;
site-averaged entrenchment ratio.
Sinuosity Site-averaged sinuosity.
Riparian condition Structure Percent class of areal cover (by three vegetation classes)
at each of 22 measurement points; site-averaged percent
class of areal cover (by three vegetation classes);
vegetation type will be described at each of 22
measurement points.
Disturbance The presence (11 classes) and proximity (4 classes) of
human land-use activities in the riparian area of 22
measurement points.
Canopy cover Raw canopy cover data at 66 measurement points; site-
averaged canopy cover.
Reach
Characterization Channel type (Rosgen) Predominant Rosgen Level 1 channel type within site
based on sinuosity, entrenchment ratio, width, depth ratio,
and slope; notes if site encompasses more than one
Rosgen channel type.
Bed-form type Predominant bed-form type within site; amount of
confinement within site.

$87,433

49.16%

03/01/2008

03/31/2009

03/31/2009

Concluded

n/a

n/a

Recurring