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PPO > Sudden Oak Death Research and Education Program > Monitoring > Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program > 2011 study > Stream monitoring sites 2011 by county > 2011-1110 Monitoring Thea Foss Waterway

2011-1110 Monitoring Thea Foss Waterway

Thea Foss Waterway

Two students holding a single mesh bait bag with a dowel at the top, both looking at the bag as another person stands behind them.

a student kneels down next to the edge of a dock by a cement pillar with white tubing in a U around its base connecting it to the dock. The student is dying a bait bag to the tube.

Site 1110

A view of the waterway facing a dock with a number of boats tied up across the water.

two people standing next to each other, on a dock with a walkway to another level behind them. both are looking at a clipboard held by the person closer to the camera.

Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma, WA

Thea Foss Waterway Cleanup

Elevation 5 ft

Stream order 3 (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: 35.22 hectares "other" (it's a river), 223.22 hectares urban.

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.

A circle graph showing the breakdown of species. no numbers are shown to represent the different amounts of each sample. Approximately 2/3 of the species were Halophytophthora. A smaller amount was Halophytophthora sp 2, and the third was Halophytophthora sp 3.

temperature results from site 1110 Thea Foss Waterway. From 30 March to 13 April it was 9C, moving down to 8C on 27th April and then up again to 10C by 25 May, where it remained through 15 June.

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