Level 3 Stream Survey results for Sleepy Creek near it’s mouth at River Rd.August 13 2015, 8:30 am.

Participants: Jeff Iliff, , Bob Meadows, Norman Dean, Stan Oaks and Michael Brooks.

Latitude: 39-40-10  Longitude: 78-5-9

Ambient temp: 87 deg. hot and sunny

Habitat conditions: 152 Suboptimal

Biological conditions: 76.8 Suboptimal

There were 191 low tolerance benthic macroinvertebrates represented by 6 types, 133 ‘critters’ of 7 types in the medium tolerance category, and 5 bugs of 3 types in the high tolerance category.

Click on our ‘Stream Monitoring’ category (to the right) to see stream monitoring results for other Sleepy Creek Locations this year, as well as a deeper explanation of the process in a posting called, “What is stream monitoring and what do the numbers mean?”