Site 4: Lower Canada Larga

This site is located off of Ventura Avenue, just south of the Canada Larga bridge. Canada Larga is a tributary to the Ventura River. The site is carefully accessed by hopping over a small gate, and walking down a concrete steam bank. Cement channelization of the stream flow from upstream ends here at the sampling site. A VCFC flood gauge is present at this location. However, the automated gauge does not read until water levels reach one and a half feet. The opposite stream bank is filled with vegetation, native and non-native, and a mix of different sized rocks make up the banks once the cement ends. Arundo and tobacco plants are plentiful just downstream of the sampling site. The stream basin at this site is approximately forty feet in width. During the dry season, there is little to no flow at this site.

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