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North Carolina Division of Water Quality -Stream Identification Form; Version 3.1
Date: b l b '~ 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 holo (Subtotal = . ~ ) Absent Weak Moderate Strong
1a. Continuous bed and bank 0 1 3
2. Sinuosity 0 1 3
3. In-channel structure: riffle-pool sequence 0 1
4. Soil texture or stream substrate sorting 0 1 2
5. Active/relic floodplain 0 1
6. Depositional bars or benches 0 1 3
7. Braided channel , 0 1 2 3
8. Recent alluvial deposits 0 1 3
9a Natural levees 0 1 2 3
10. Headcuts 1 2 3
11. Grade controls 0. 1 1.5
12. Natural valley or drainageway 0 0. 1 1.5
13. Second or greater order channel on existin4
USGS or NRCS map or other documented
evidence.
No ~
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Yes = 3
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14. Groundwater flow/discharge 0 1 3
15. Water in channel and > 48 hrs since rain, or
Water in channel -- d or rowin season 0 Q 2 3
16. Leaflitter 1.5 0.5 0
17. Sediment on plants or debris 0 1 1.5
18.Organic debris lines or piles (Wrack lines) 0 1 1.5
19. Hydric soils (redoximorphic features) present? No = 0 Yes .5

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20 . Fibrous roots in channel
2
1
0
21 b. Rooted plants in channel 3 2 1 0
22. Crayfish 0.5 1 1.5
23. Bivalves 1 2 3
24. Fish 0.5 1 1.5
25. Amphibians 0.5 1 1.5
26. Macrobenthos (note diversity and abundance} 0 0. 1 1.5
27. Filamentous algae; periphyton ~ 1 2 3
28. Iron oxidizing bacteriaffungus. 0.5 1 1.5
29 . Wetland plants in streambed FAC = 0.5; FACW = 0.75; OBL = 1.5 SAV = 2.0; Other = 0
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Notes: (use back side of this form for additional notes.)