Drake St. Park : Clark Creek

Save to access. Wear gloves at all times after monitoring. Use sanitizer in emergency kit to clean hands after sampling. This site could contain bacteria's such as e-coli.
Park/Recreation, Stormwater, and Iron-oxidizing bacteria are also pollution sources in the immediate surroundings.
Odour: Decomposing/Rooting.
Colour of pH on Teststrip is darker than 8.4, however, it is the highest number, therefore, mentioned 8.4.
There was one male mallard on the waterbody. There is a beaver in the area, that has been busy feeding on bark. No new trees down, only the ones from last fall. There are buds on the Alder trees. There was scum and algae on several locations on the waterbody moving upstream and downwards. There was some floating mats that should be observed throughout the summer. There is a good amount of decomposing leaves still remaining on left bank. The grass is growing in the water body, approximately 3cm in length.