NC Stream Watch - New Hope Creek

NC Stream Watch volunteers take monthly samples along an elevational transect of New Hope Creek as it flows from Duke Forest slate belt down through Triassic basic sediments and bottomlands into the northernmost lobe of Jordan Reservoir 

Samples include wetted-width cross-sections to estimate total flow.

Water chemistry including Dissolved Oxygen, Total N and Total P.

Inspection of the macroinvertebrate fauna.  At Old Chapel Hill Rd and New Hope Creek, and at Erwin Road and New Hope Creek, we observed:

Mayfly
Female copepod
Daphnia
Snow Leopard leach
Midgefly
Oligochete
Dragonfly larva
& Asiatic Clam

Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009

We had a great turnout of volunteers to help us plant native willow and cottonwood in the Santa Fe River. This planting continued a 10-year Wild Earth Guardian project to restore continuously linked habitat from the Santa Fe River's confluence with the Rio Grande 50 miles up to its headwaters in the Santa Fe National Forest.

From Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009

The SNOW:

From Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009

The FLOOD:

From Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009

Looking upstream BEFORE:

From Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009

Looking upstream AFTER:

From Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009

On to the NEXT Stream Team:

From Santa Fe River Stream Team 2009