Limiting FWC Field Location Naming Along Creeks - A Rule of Thumb

With certain FWC "local detail" project exceptions, we try and minimise the number of named field locations per creek to those needed to be ”representative of a creek” and/or a watershed, otherwise charting (and other data management stuff) become a real head-ache. This often means sampling a creek system near its coastal outfall, particularly if a watershed's creek systems are "funnelled" into one system at the coast. Remember the project is about island-wide watershed - surface flow and chemistry analysis (kind of "regional"), though we investigate doing "local detail" data collection, if and where we have volunteers, or where these additional local insights may add value in informing developing surface-groundwater models and in planning around these.

Note - the exception to this "limit the number of names/locations" rule-of-thumb is if there was/is a specific purpose for the changes in naming, associated with investigations along a creek - eg measuring a profile along a creek (creek continuity, along-stream aquatic system health, chemistry variability etc).