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1 Images Microhabitats Survey SPF Georef General Spring Name 1 Spring Type Page of OBS Country State County 2 Sensitivity Site Description 3 Land Unit Land Unit Detail Quad HUC 4 Georef Source Device Datum UTM Zone UTM East UTM North Lat Long Elev ft or m EPE ft or m Declination Comment Access Directions Sunrise: D J N F O M S A A M J J Sunset: D J N F O M S A A M J J Site Condition Date Begin Time End Time Surveyors Project A Description Area (m 2 ) 5 Surf Type 6 Sub- 7 Slope Type Var Aspect Slope 8 Soil Water T/M Deg moist dpth(cm) % 1 9 Substrate % Org Oth Prec % Litter % Wood Litter % (cm) B C D E F G Camera Used Photo # Description Sketch Map Location Entered by Date Checked by Date

2 1 Discharge Sphere (Spring Type) Anthropogenic Cave Exposure Fountain Geyser Gushet Hanging Garden Helocrene Hillslope Hypocrene Limnocrene Mound-form Rheocrene 2 Sensitivity None Location Survey Both 3 Land Unit BLM DOE NPS Private State Tribal USFS 4 Georeference Source GPS Map 5 Surface Type BW Backwall C Cave CH Channel CS Colluvial slope HGC High Grad. Cienega LGC Low Grad Cienega Mad Unfocused Madiculous O Organic Ooze P Pool PP Plunge Pool SB Sloping Bedrock SM Spring Mound TE Terrace TU Tunnel Upl Adjacent Uplands WH Wet Hillslope Oth 6 Surface Subtype CH Riffle, Run, Margin, Eph TE LRZ, MRZ, URZ, HRZ UPL,LRZMRZ,LRZURZ, MRZURZ, HRZMRZ All Anthro 7 Slope Variability Low, Medium, High 8 Soil Moisture 1 - Dry 2 - Dry-Moist 3 - Moist-Dry 4 - Wet-Dry 5 - Moist 6 - Saturated-Dry 7 - Wet 8 - Saturated-Moist 9 - Wet-Saturated 10 - Saturated 11 - Inundated 9 Substrate 1 clay 2 silt 3 sand 4 fine gravel 5 coarse gravel 6 cobble 7 boulder 8 bedrock Organic Soil/Matter /anthropogenic 10 Lifestage Adult Egg Exuviae Immature Larvae Mixed Pupae Shell 11 Habitat AQ - Aquatic T - Terrestrial 12 Method (Invertebrates) Spot Benthic 13 Detection Type (Vertebrates) Call Observed Sign Reported (by others) 14 Cover Codes GC Ground Cover SC Shrub Cover MC Midcanopy Cover TC Tall Canopy Cover AQ Aquatic Cover NV Nonvascular (moss, etc) BC Basal Cover 15 Emergence Environ/Detail Cave Subaerial Subglacial Subaqueous-lentic freshwater Subaqueous-lotic freshwater Subaqueous-estuarine Subaqueous-marine 16 Source Geomorphology Contact Spring Fracture Spring Seepage or filtration Tubular Spring 17 Flow Force Mechanism Anthropogenic Artesian Geothermal Gravity 18/19 Parent Rock Type/Subtype Igneous andesite basalt dacite diorite gabbro grandodiorite granite peridotite rhyolite Metamorphic gneiss marble quartzite slate schist Sedimentary coal conglomerate dolomite evaporates limestone mudstone sandstone shale siltstone Unconsolidated 20 Channel Dynamics Mixed runoff/spring dominated Runoff dominated Spring dominated Subaqueous 21 Flow Consistency Dry intermittent Erratic intermittent Perennial Regular intermittent 22 Measurement Technique Current meter Weir Cutthroat flume

3 Benthic Rep Inverebrates Comments Species Name 11 Qty 10 Habitat Stage 12 Method Rep # Velocity m/sec Depth cm Rep # Location Substrate Area Sq M Time Sec Comments Entered by Date Checked by Date

4 Vertebrates No. 13 Species Name Detection Type Ind Comments Entered by Date Checked by Date

5 Flora 14 Species Name Str A B C D E F G H Comments No. Ind No. Coll Entered by Date Checked by Date

6 Flora 14 Species Name Str A B C D E F G H Comments No. Ind No. Coll Entered by Date Checked by Date

7 Water Quantity Geomorphology Emerg Env Mechanism Detail Rock Type Source Geo Rock Subtype Polygon 1 Discharge Sphere 1 Secondary Discharge Comments Geologic Layer 20 Channel Dynamics 21 Flow Consistency 22 Measurement Technique Flow Rate (Mean) Location of Measurements Total Site % Captured Discharge Comments Current Meter l/s m/s other Cell Distance Width Depth Reading Flume l/s m/s other Point Flume Size Measurements Avg Stage % Flow Volume Container Size/Units Point Volume Time to Fill % Flow Weir l/s m/s other Point Weir Size Measurements % Flow Entered by Date Checked by Date

8 Water Quality Measurement Device(s) Date Last Calibrated Air Temp Collection Location/Comments Field Measurements Depth (cm) ph Conductivity Dissolved O 2 Water Temp. ( o C) Turbidity Alkalinity Device Average Collected for Analysis Sample Type Sample Taken? DuplicateTaken? Container Anions Cations Nutrients 2 H and 18 O Isotopes Filtered (Y/N) Treatment Entered by Date Checked by Date

9 SEAP Spring Name Date Page of Obs Information Source Notes: Recommendations: Entered by Date Checked by Date

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