| | | | | | | | VAIL TOWN COUNCIL AGENDA MEMO
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| | | | | | | | ITEM/TOPIC: Update on 2017 Gore Creek Macroinvertebrate Scores
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| | | | | | | | PRESENTER(S): Pete Wadden, Watershed Education Coordinator and Dave Rees, Aquatic Entomologist, Timberline Aquatics
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| | | | | | | | BACKGROUND: Gore Creek has been listed on the state's 303d list of impaired waterways since 2012. In 2013 and 2014, five of seven monitoring sites failed to meet state standards. In 2015, six of seven monitoring sites failed to meet state standards. In 2016 and 2017, three of those seven sites failed to meet state standards.
Dave Rees has collected and analyzed macroinvertebrates from Gore Creek since data collection began in 2009 and will offer his insight and observations about trends in aquatic health that he has observed in Gore Creek and its tributaries over the last 9 years.
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