Period3B

Period 3 Group B, Jordan, Curtis, Chris

Hypothosis: Our hypothosis is that the river is clean, but not clean enough to drink.

6.5cm || point 2 2.3cm || point 3
 * Depth of water || Point 1

11.6cm || Mps=meters per second
 * || Point 1 || point 2 || point 3 ||
 * Temperature || 22.1c || 21.9c || 22.6c ||
 * Conductivity || 273 || 278 || 289 ||
 * Flow test || .235mps || .17mps || .05mps ||
 * Ph test || 7 || 8 || 9 ||
 * point sources || 18 in total ||  ||   ||

Nitrate test results:1

Area 1- Across from the grass football field, at the crack. Area 2-Next to begining of the fence and where there is 2 point sorces. Area 3-Where there is a man made dam that is made of cement and pipe.

Obeservation- Area 1
 * A very big crack in the middle of our area.
 * The water is moving very fast.
 * The water is carying small sedements.
 * There are a lot of big rocks in the crack.
 * There is a ripple zone.
 * Some orange life forms clinging on to the bottom of the crack.
 * There is one dead fish and some white worms on the bottom of the crack.

Area 2
 * There are 2 point sources at our second point.
 * A lot of moss coming out of the two point sources.
 * There was some sand in the river.
 * It has a little bit of a ripple zone.
 * some plastic trash near this area.
 * Also, the moss is not slippery.

Area 3
 * It is a deposition zone.
 * There is a lot of vegetation on the side of the river.
 * A lot of dead plants and oily substances at the dam.
 * A lot of little fish swimming around the dam, and taking cover next to it.

Point sources When you look at the point sources, they look healthy but when you really look at it, it is very dirty. When you look at it closely, there is a lot of oily substances coming from these point sources. Also, with the metal ones, there is rust coming out from them. All of this coming out of the water does not help the animals survive.

When we did the microscope test on the point source water we found little cells, but i do not think that these are micro-oganisms. There might have been plant cells, but i did not really see any moving organisms. I also think that we didn't take enough of the moss on the point sources.

Conclusion-At this point we think that the river is deffinitly clean enough to support life, but it is not clean enough to drink because of all the garbage and polution.