STREAMKEEPERS OF CLALLAM COUNTY—NEW
SITE QUESTIONNAIRE
Dear Streamkeeper
advisor/partner/volunteer: You have
suggested a new Streamkeepers monitoring site.
(For more information, see http://www.clallam.net/streamkeepers/assets/applets/SamplingPlanDesign.pdf
& http://www.clallam.net/streamkeepers/assets/applets/NewReachEst.pdf.) In order to facilitate our addition of
this site into our database system, please answer the following questions about
each new site you wish to see monitored, using a separate form for each
site. You may submit responses
electronically or by hard-copy.
1.
Your name (and agency if
applicable):
2.
Brief descriptive name of this site,
and stream-mile to the nearest tenth if you can calculate it from a
map:
3.
Would you like this site sampled
quarterly, or only in certain seasons?
For what parameters and duration?
4.
Where, exactly, would you like this
site to be? (Describe in terms of
landmarks and rough distances and directions from them.) Please note: Streamkeepers’
macroinvertebrate-sampling protocol specifies that collection sites are to be at
least 660’ downstream or at least 165’ upstream of any human-made structure in
the bankfull channel, such as a culvert or bridge, UNLESS your goal is to sample
the impacts of the structure. So if
you think macroinvertebrate samples will someday be taken at this location,
follow the above guidelines.
5.
Supply good written directions as to
how to access this site:
6.
Every new site needs to be visited
by SK staff or a technical advisor prior to any monitoring. Has this site been visited, and if so,
by whom and when? If not, who will
be visiting this site, and when?
7.
The technical advisor should help
decide if flow will be measured at this site, and if so, if it should be
measured along a transect between permanent monuments. If so, have the monuments been
installed, or is there a plan to install them? (If so, the installation should be
indicated and referenced on the Site Sketch Map.)
8.
Is it safe to measure flow at or
near that site in all conditions?
9.
Who owns the site and the access
route to it? What are the parcel
numbers? (See below for map
link.)
10.
Have you obtained permission to
access these parcels? If so, when,
and who did you talk to (incl. phone #)? If not, can you help us make the
necessary contacts?
11.
Would there be any special access
instructions, such as gated access points or the need to contact the landowner
prior to each site visit?
12.
Is past data available at that
site? If so, who/what/when/where
& how can we access it?
13.
How soon would you ideally like
Streamkeepers to start monitoring?
(The quicker & better the information you provide, the sooner we can
start.)
(See next two pages
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LOCATION
INFORMATION
We need to record accurate information about the locations of all of our sites. Please help us with the following information, to the best of your ability.
14.
Horizontal location
information:
a.
Put a dot for this site on an
attached map (preferably 1:3000 or larger scale; easy-to-use interactive County
maps are available at http://10.5.10.73/aimsiwebsite/arcims_start.htm),
OR give a lat/long, preferably in
decimal degrees (i.e., set your GPS to read out in this
form).
b.
We also need to know how you placed
your dot or took your GPS reading, so please answer the questions below. We need this information in order to
share our data with the State and other agencies. Some of the notes in italics should help
you with your answers.
Horizontal collection method (select
one):
|
address
match--block face |
conversion
from STR |
orthophoto—digital [e.g.,
|
|
address
match--house # |
digital
or manual raw photo extraction |
orthophoto--paper |
|
address
match--street centerline |
digitized--CTR
screen/digital data |
satellite
imagery--Landsat MSS (multi-spectral scan) |
|
address
match--unknown |
digitized--paper
map |
satellite
imagery--Landsat TM (thematic mapper) |
|
air
photo--rectified |
GPS
carrier/geodetic |
satellite
imagery--other |
|
air
photo--unknown |
GPS
code/geodetic |
satellite
imagery--SPOT panchromatic |
|
air
photo--unrectified |
GPS
kinematic |
satellite
imagery--SPOT multi-spectral |
|
cadastral
survey |
GPS
unknown [if you used a GPS and
can’t place it in one of the above 3 categories] |
zip
code centroid |
|
census
block 1990 centroid |
hand
measured--paper map interpolation [e.g., County road maps or USGS 7.5’
quads] |
unknown |
|
census
block group 1990 centroid |
LORAN-C |
|
Horizontal datum (select
one):
|
N.
American Datum 1927 (NAD27) [e.g.,
USGS 7.5’quads or NOAA charts] |
|
N.
American Datum 1983 (NAD83 or 91 Adj.) [e.g.,
|
|
HARN |
|
GPS
WGS84 (GPS NAVS88) |
|
unknown |
Horizontal accuracy (use your best
judgement and select one):
|
<0.01m |
=>0.1m
<1m |
+-20ft(6m) |
+-100ft(35m) |
+-250ft |
+-1000ft |
>2000ft |
|
=>0.01m
<0.1m |
+-10ft(3m) |
+-40ft(12m) |
+-180ft(55m) |
+-500ft |
+-2000ft |
unknown |
15.
Vertical location
information:
a.
Provide an elevation in feet:
___________________
b.
Provide the appropriate metadata for
your answer to the above question, in each table below. Some of the notes in italics should help
you with your answers.
Vertical collection method (select
one):
|
bathymetric
sounding |
GPS
(code/geodetic) |
GPS
(unknown) |
other
engineering survey |
|
cadastral
survey |
GPS
(carrier/geodetic) |
hand
measured, paper map [e.g., USGS
7.5’ quads] |
photogrammetry |
|
digital
elevation model [e.g., DEM from
Clallam Cty GIS] |
GPS
(kinematic) |
map-derived |
LIDAR
[e.g., LIDAR 50’ contours from
|
|
Unknown |
|
|
|
Vertical reference (select
one):
|
mean
sea level |
mean
high high level |
mean
low low level [DEM from
|
highest
tide |
lowest
tide |
|
mean
high level |
mean
low level |
local
tide datum |
mean
(half) tide |
unknown
[incl. LIDAR] |
Vertical datum (select
one):
|
N.
American Vertical datum of 1988 (NAVD88) |
GPS
WGS84 (GPS NAVD88) [e.g.,
LIDAR] |
|
N.
American Geodedic Vertical datum of 1929 (NGVD29) [DEM from
|
unknown |
Vertical accuracy (use your best
judgement and select one):
|
<0.01m |
=>0.1m
<1m |
+-20ft(6m) |
+-100ft(35m) |
+-250ft |
+-1000ft |
>2000ft |
|
=>0.01m
<0.1m |
+-10ft(3m) |
+-40ft(12m) |
+-180ft(55m) |
+-500ft |
+-2000ft |
unknown |