Description:  This is an ephemeral stream (although running vigorously during our ten weeks of spring observations).  The site for the sample was a short run that was a pinch point between a red maple (Acer rubrum) swamp that extends several hundred meters up stream and the logging road.   The valley is gentle at this point but abruptly interrupted by bedrock up-cropping just down slope (10 meters) from our sampling site.

Cover: The stream has 70 to 80 percent cover from the canopy in the summers due to the red maple (Acer rubrum) trees that are growing in the streams flood prone area.

Channel characteristics: The stream at this site is a shallow and wide.  The stream is limited by bedrock below and forced to pool in each rain event.  The cobble is baseball size and covered with moss.

Reason Selected: We wanted to get water samples from the “undisturbed” area of the watershed.  The stream runs through several swamps just up stream of this site.  However, there are no roads, paths, or major land disturbances above the site. (timber thinning started half-way through the study).