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2011-1108 Peters Creek

Peters Creek

Two smiling women, dressed warmly, are standing next to a sign on a wooden fence. The sign says "Peters Creek Water Quality Station Stormwater Redmond 556" with some of the words ending behind the woman on the right.

Looking along the channel of a small creek. Tall brown grass, a small conifer, and a stand of alders line the left bank. On the right is some tall brown grass and a dense conifer stand.

Site 1108

A muddy creekbank with some brown plants. A bait bag is in the water, with the attached rope trailing out of the bottom of the frame.

closeup of the stream channel. A corrugated roofing tile on the right appears to be redirecting the flow. A bait bag is in the water near the bottom middle of the frame.

Peters Creek in Redmond, WA

The Sammamish River trail

The Sammamish River watershed

Elevation 35 ft

Stream order 1 (pdf)

A map that has the site marked in the center as a blue plus. It depicts land use in the area. Each type of land use is denoted by a transparent colored overlay inside a red circle totaling 259 hectares. The land use is as follows: 4.19 hectares "other" (it is a stream), 250.94 hectares urban, 3.33 hectares woodland.

the same land area as is shown in the map above. the red circle on the outside shows the extent with a smaller blue circle inside it, around a red location marker at the center.

Results for site 1108 Peters Creek. The circle graph does not have percentages. Put together, Phytophthora taxon Pg chlamydo and Elongisporangium undulatum make up over half of the results. The next largest after that was Phytophthora gonapodyides, followed by Pythium diclinum complex, Pythium new sp. 1, and Phytophthora citrinum.

A line graph that shows the water temperature at Site 1108 Peters Creek. The water on 16th March was 6C, heating all the way up to 10C by 30th March, then back down to 8C on 13th April. Between 27th April and 11th May the temperature rose back up to 10, and up again to 13C by 18th May.

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