tweaks Tributary to Kispiox River - 198215 Date Creek FSR

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Beauty!

Site Location

• [x] should also note that this road is also the Date Creek FSR
• [x] just outside the Gitxsan village of Kispiox
• [x] should mention that it is responibiliyt of MoTi at this location.

Background

• [ ] should mention the dam and provide background about why it is there. check out the dam here https://aquaticbarriers.ca/ and see if you can query the internet (Dale Creek?) to find why its there. If you can't - then ask Taylor from Gitskan Watershed Authorities if she knows or could find out.

Stream Characteristics at Crossing

• [x] consider removing the period before "However" - makes the paragraph read a bit choppy
• [x] mention the outlet drop . Its 1.1m high!!!

Stream Characteristics Downstream

• [x] mention that the lock block step is a backwatering structure that would have been put there to try to minimize the outlet drop to facilitate upstream fish passage.
• [x] rate the habitat in the priorities sheet... Medium?

Stream Characteristics Upstream

• [x] "The stream was surveyed upstream from crossing 198215 for 800m" to the location of a dam? How high was the dam and what did it look like? Any clues to why it was there (water treatment plan) etc....
• [x] in the photos I can see logs that look like they have been deliberately placed there to capture substrate, provide complexity and spawning/rearing habitat. That should be noted.
• [x] Should have a photo of the dam

Conclusion

• [x] Should note that although FWA streamline indicated the stream was >9% gradient measurements of the habitat below the dam indicate it was less than the selected cutoff of 8% (check the Table 3.3 definitions) so there is 0.8km of habitat suitable for stealhead rearing.

[Mateo9569]

What's all this about a dam, I never actually saw one? I surveyed for 800m and don't think I saw a dam. However, I did take this photo shown below on the survey. When I georeferenced it, it's pretty close to where the dam is supposed to be. Is it possible that this used to be a dam? Ya tons of those logs though that are perpendicular to the stream and look like they were placed there on purpose.

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two dams show on that aquatic barriers website and one shows in the FISS_obstacles layer of our shared mergin project. Could be historic and gone or perhaps there is another one further upstream than you surveyed. Dam or dams should be mentioned and it should be noted if you made it to the mapped location and it was not there (show the picture). The dams are in the bcfishpass.crossings layer too and we should use the latest silly IDs from the remote database to describe.

Dam seems to be so close to Kispiox that it seems like a decent spot to put a drinking water intake setup.....

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bam!

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• [x] - its the Date Creek FSR vs the Dale. Date is the larger trib up the road (click ften rd layer in Q further up valley)

We describe what is "good" about habitat and use our rankings (lame but true).

Stream Characteristics Upstream

• [x] The stream was wide throughout? The valley was wide?
• [x] significant amounts or abundant or large quantities is much preferred in technical writing vs "A lot " . Lame but true
• [x] trace areas with gravels that could be suitable for spawning = ”pockets of gravel suitable for spawning” or “trace amount of gravels suitable for spawning”
• [x] Need to mention the dams in the provincial database!!

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looks like there are two chris_culvert_ids. The Pscis form has the diameters of both pipes added together but it is clear to see in the photos that they are not the same elevation so only the diameter of 1 should be input. Size of both can go in comment

[Mateo9569]

Am I assuming both culverts have the same diameter? Looks that way from the photos. Also there are 3 moti points near that crossing. 1524776 and 1524775 share the same diameter (1.8) while 1524774 has a diameter of 0.5. I'll assume the latter is not a part of this crossing then? I wonder where that one is coming from then.