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• Case Number: 84CW0158
• Stream Name: Rat Creek
• Watershed: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Water District: 20
• County: Mineral
• Instream Flow App - Doc Type: Supplemental Data

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Rat Creek
Code No. 42363
Page 2

Stocking:
Fingerling: 1975 - Rainbow
Fry: Rainbow, Brown - 1972, 77
None: 8.8 }liles

. Aquatic Vegetation:
Filamentous Algae: Absent
Watercress: No

: ;e, Stream Size:
..; l " Minor Stream 4 '-9'

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; Gradiant: 7.2%

'.lu 'Fishery Value:
'L,,, Below Average

';1" Fishery Value - Limiting Factors:
Dense Riparian Vegetation - Poor Fishability - B-7
...,j:' ,', ;}lining Pollution - E-2

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FISH SAMPLING

Lower Station

"Elevation: ..8880 ft.- .Sampling Method: Electro-Fishing - 50

Length: 180 ft.

ScalescCollected: No

Estimated % of Fish Biomass:
Game Fish: 100%

Sampling: Adequate

Upper Station

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Elevation: 11200 ft.

Length: 170 ft.

Scales Collected: No

Estimated % of Fish Biomass:
Game Fish: 100%

Sampling Method: Electro-Fishing - 50
Sampling: Adequate

Combined Station:

Estimated % of Fish Biomass:
Game Fish: 100%

--.Comments:' Mine tailings may be interferring with the lower station fish
population. Upper Station very good.

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