4. What are the factors that affect water quality of the stream? Are there industrial discharges directly to the…
The field trip to the Conodoguinet creek taught me a lot about water pollution. The results of the water we tested showed positive. On the scale the numbers shown below seven so the creek is not very polluted. This means the phosphates and nitrates are not high in the creek so the neutralise isn’t hurting anything. We saw some algae that was eutrophicating the richness of the pollution. The one thing our group did not see are crustaceans because the creek was fresh water. It was fun to investigate the waterlot in the conodoguinet…
The results were no different from what I had expected because Cherry Creek is man made that runs parallel to Denver with sewage running off into the creek. Some human errors in this experiment could have been the fact that we did not perform this experiment. Also the people that did the experiment could have miscounted organisms. Pollutions relates to the amount of organisms living in the ecosystem due to the fact that pollutants effect the physical, chemical, and biological conditions of an ecosystem. This has a trickling affect on the whole food web, killing off some of the inhabitants.…
Brush Creek is a nice river that we are trying to figure out what kind of pollution and other things in the creek. The purpose is to see if Brush Creek is at the level for people to able to get into it and be safe. My hypothesis is that the creek will have little pollution around the site area. The expected outcomes are that we will find lots of creatures there and the dissolved oxygen levels are high.…
Some conditions may include of people becoming ill from the polluted water, and a decrease in fish.…
The water from the creeks and water bodies around Brisbane will be unsafe to drink as the water is polluted and results will not be in the recommended requirements for safe drinking. It is expected that Bulimba Creek is polluted because it is a large water way and therefore it is hard for one committee to maintain the watery way’s health while respecting its biodiversity (BulimbaCreek.org, 2015). It is expected that Waterloo Bay is undrinkable because it is a salt water body (Health-e-waterways.org, 2012). It is expected that Phillips Creek is undrinkable because it is located in an industrial area and surrounded by many shops and petrol stations, which can lead to exposure of chemicals which can pollute the water (BulimbaCreek.org, n.d.).…
One of the major characteristics of Coal Creek is its lack of vertebrate life. In aquatic environments, a deficiency in biomass can be due to chemical factors or biotic factors. Chemical analysis of the drainage basin have been studied since 2012, but the chemical composition was found to be compatible with life. Previous data gathered from personal communication with Kim Weaver Ph.D revealed that an experiment conducted by Scott Potter showed elevated aluminum concentrations within Coal Creek. Further analysis conducted by Anthony London revealed that chlorophyll samples collected from the creek fluoresced in the yellow spectrum. The overall data collected from Coal Creek has the capacity to select for certain life forms rather than eliminate vertebrate life.…
The question being looked into is “What is the water quality of the U-High creek, based on invertebrates found in the U-High Creek? “Dissolved oxygen is oxygen mixed with water. The range to measure how much dissolved oxygen is in a solution is 1-14 milligrams per liter. This is important because fish and other organisms in the ocean breathe off of dissolved oxygen. Phosphorus is used to measure the relative acidity of solutions such as water. The range for pH is measured in 0-14 scale. 0-6 is unhealthy, 7 is neutral, and 8-14 is healthy. Nitrogen is an element that helps invertebrates survive because it has special proteins that help them grow. Nitrogen then enters as ammonia. The range of nitrogen ammonia should be between 1.3 and 2.2 mg/L at all times.…
In this experiment, the question being asked was: “What is the water quality of the U-High stream based on the water invertebrates found?” The purpose of this experiment was to determine the water quality of the U-High creek. The data was obtained by collecting soil, algae, and water from the U-High creek and identifying the number and types of invertebrates that were found from the samples. The prediction made was that the U-High creek’s water quality was poor based on the first observations of beer cans and other litter found near it, but the original hypothesis of the water quality being poor is rejected. There were three types of invertebrates found: pollution sensitive, pollution moderate tolerance, and pollution tolerance. Each of these groups resulted in having six different species found in the U-High creek. The pollution sensitive species included caddisflies, riffle beetles, stoneflies, mayflies, snipe larvae, and water penny larvae. The pollution moderate tolerance species included cranefly larvae, dragonfly…
The water quality of the U-High creek was excellent because it had pollution sensitive micro-invertebrates. However, not all creeks are this way. One example of humans polluting creeks includes farmers’ pesticides and fertilizers that soak through the ground and travel into the water (Lenntech, 1998-2016). These materials hold a lot of phosphorus and nitrogen which causes a surplus of algae. If this occurs, then the water could turn green (causing a low aesthetic value) and also once it breaks down, its’ bacteria will steal away the dissolved oxygen that the fish need to survive. Another example is the runoff of factory waste (Lenntech, 1998-2016). This waste brings toxins that could kill all the organisms and animals that interact with the…
There are lots of ways that pollution can get into streams and cause the pollution level to rise. For an example, everybody brushes their teeth, washes their hands, and goes to the bathroom. All of those toxic wastes go into sewers and let’s say an extremely rainy day occurred and flooded the sewers so the level of water is above surface and it flows all the way down to the river. So what happens is that the toxic waste flows into the water and kills living organisms in the stream because it could go through there gills and flow right into their blood stream. One more factor to rise Sheldrake Streams pollution level to rise is that there is a gold course right across the street and golfers spay pesticides on their selves to prevent bugs from coming and the rain washes those pesticides into the river harming the organisms in the stream.…
Acid rain and Eutrophication are the two main pollution in Central Pennsylvania. Acid rain is a bad type of rain whiles eutrophication is the process where water bodies receive excess nutrients. Our mission here is to determine whether the Conodoguinet Creek is polluted or not. My hypothesis before the experiments was if there was to be signs of acid rain and eutrophication, then it means the Creek is polluted…
The article, Officials confirm pollution worries, states that the local Neighborhood Lake’s have reached critical pollution levels. These levels were addressed at the City Council meeting. Local environmental activists have been warning the community of the high levels of pollution in the Neighborhood Lake’s. Concern is directed toward the town’s water supply. These Lake’s were once an attraction for fishing but with the dangerous levels of pollution the community’s health and well-being are at risk (University of Phoenix, n.d.).…
The information provided in this article will also be used to prove how pollution is impacting and impairing marine life.…
Today I will share with all of you about pollution. We could say that pollution is the harm that results because of the presence of a substance or substances where they would not normally be found or because they are present in larger than normal quantities. Polluting substances may occur as a solid, liquid or gas. The pollution could be water, air, sound any many more. So today I will tell about water pollution. In my speech I will divide the session to three section. First, the causes of this pollution, second the effects of this pollution and last how to overcome this problem.…