Lower Gingin Brook Downstream
Basin : Moore-Hill rivers
Catchment : Moore River
The condition of the Lower Gingin Brook Downstream site (site code: MR3GING1), in the lower catchment of the Gingin Brook, was assessed between 25 and 26 February 2019, over a 100-m length of stream. At this time no previous assessments of river ecology had been reported.
The assessment was conducted using standard methods from the South West Index of River Condition. Measures chosen for this assessment included fish and crayfish, aquatic habitat, water quality (dissolved oxygen, temperature, electrical conductivity, and pH logged over 24h, and colour, alkalinity, turbidity and nutrients), fringing vegetation, channel morphology, erosion, connectivity, local land use and flow.
Condition summary
An online condition summary for this site has not been prepared. Please contact the Departments River Science team for site information, and see below for links to information on some of the species found at the site, and some images taken in 2019.
Fish and crayfish
Nine fish species and one crayfish species were found at this site in 2019, including one exotic fish species.
A list of species is provided at the bottom of the page, click on the images to learn more about each species.
Note: only fish and crayfish are targeted by sampling methods, however where other species were caught and/or observed they are included below.
Species found in subcatchment
Native Species
- Black breamAcanthopagrus butcheri
- Blue-spot gobyPseudogobius olorum
- Freshwater cobblerTandanus bostocki
- GilgieCherax quinquecarinatus
- NightfishBostockia porosa
- South-west glass shrimpPalaemon australis
- South-western gobyAfurcagobius suppositus
- Western hardyheadLeptatherina wallacei
- Western minnowGalaxias occidentalis
- Western pygmy perchNannoperca vittata
Exotic Species
Other aquatic fauna
The Western long-necked turtle (Chelodina colliei) and Carter’s freshwater mussel (Westralunio carteri) were observed at this site in February 2019.
Explore other sites in the catchment
- Fletcher Gully - New Norcia Road
- Gingin Brook - Downstream Cheriton weir
- Gingin Brook - Downstream Mungala Brook
- Gingin Brook - Mortimer Street Gauging Station
- Gingin Brook - Upstream Mungala Brook
- Gingin Brook - Whakea Road
- Lennard Brook - Lennards Road
- Lennard Brook - Lennards Road 3
- Lennard Brook - Upstream Brand Highway
- Lower Gingin Brook Upstream
- Moore River - Lancelin Road Bridge
- Moore River - Mogumber West Nature Reserve
- Moore River - Regans Ford
- Moore River - Upstream Bindoon-Moora Road
- Moore River - Waterville Road
- Moore River North Branch - Bindoon Moora Road
- Moore River North Branch - Dandaragan Street
- Moore River North Branch - Molloy Street Moora
- Moore River North Branch - Upstream of Long Pool Bridge Gauging Station
- Red Gully Creek
- Red Gully Creek South