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North Carolina Division of Water ualit -Stream Identification ~ ~ o
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Date: Project: Latitude:
Evaluator: Site: Longitude:
Total Points: Other
Stream is at least intermittent County:
if > 19 or erennial if z 30 e.g. Quad Name:

A. GeOmor hold (Subtotal = . < ) Absent Weak Moderate Str
1a. Continuous bed and bank 0 1 2 !'3 =;
2. Sinuosity 0 2 3'~
3. In-channel structure: riffle-pool sequence 0 1 2 3
4. Soil texture or stream substrate sorting 0 1 3
5. Active/relic floodplain t 1 ``y 3
6. Depositional bars or~benches 1` 2 3
7. Braided channel 0 . 1 2 3
8. Recent alluvial deposits. 0 1 3
9 a Natural levees 0 ~ 1 2 3
10. Headcuts 0 1 2 3
11. Grade controls 0 0.5 1 1.
12. Natural valley or drainageway 0 0.5 1 1.5
13. Second or greater order channel on existing
USGS or NRCS map or other documented.
evidence.
~N 0~
Yes = 3
naan-mane aitcnes are not rates; slee discussions in manual
B. Hvdroloav (Subtotal = 1r ~ 1
14. Groundwater flow/discharge 0 1 ~ 2 3
15. Water in channel. and > 48 hrs since rain, or
Water in channel -- d or rowin .season 0 1 ,~ ^1
`~ `•~ 3
16. Leaflitter 1.5a. 1 0.5 0
17. Sediment on plants or debris 0 0.5 1.5
18.Organic debris. lines. or piles (Wrack lines) 0 0.5 1.5
19. Hydric soils (redoximorphic features) present? 'No = 0 Yes = 1.5
C. Bioloav (Subtotal = ~, ~`1 1
20 . Fibrous roots in channel 3 2 0
21b. Rooted. plants in channel 3 2 0
22. Crayfish. ~ 0 0.5 1 1.5
23. Bivalves 0 1 3
24. Fish. 0.5 1 1.5
25. Amphibians 0.5 1 1.5
26. Macrobenthos (note diversity and abundance)
J 0.5 1 1.5
27. Filamentous algae; periphyton 0 1 2 ~3 .
28. Iron oxidizing bacteria/fungus. 0 5 1.5
29 . Wetland plants in streambed FAC = 0.5; CW = 0.7 OBL = 1.5 SAV = 2.0; Other = 0
gems zu and z-i rocus on the presence of upland plants, Item Z9 tocuses on the prince of aquatic or wetland plants.
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Notes: (use back side of this form for additional notes.)
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