Cayuga Lake Essay

: Larchwood Lake may not ever be the same again. The story about Larchwood Lake is not that uncommon. Without doing extensive research into possible things that could occur by lowering the lake level, the Larchwood Lake Homeowner’s Association destroyed the very thing they were trying to protect. Carelessness and poor planning are not the only root causes however. There are a number of reasons that led to the degradation of Larchwood Lake that happen to relate to more macro level environmental issues. Those reasons are poorly designed environmental policy created by the E.P.A., poor understanding of lake ecology by the managers of the land, and false confidence in poorly planned ideas. By looking at how these factors contributed to the degradation of the lake, hopefully we will be able to make more ecological sound decisions in the future.

In the short story Greasy Lake written by T.C. Boyle, the story is about three friends who believe they are “bad”. On a particular night they go out looking for trouble, and trouble is what they find. The tone of this story is serious, dark, and very graphic. This story is full of literary devices. Metaphors and similes come thick and fast on the shores of Greasy Lake, and Boyle never contents himself with one when he can offer two or three. The comparisons for their abundance, are neither aimless nor without purpose; they enable us to see the referent from strategic points of view.

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."(Aristotle) The importance of education is effectively illustrated in the book Crow Lake by Mary Lawson and also in Alden Nowlan's poem Warren Pryor. Both Kate's family and Warren's family highly value the importance of education and both families expect their children to receive higher education. Both Kate and Warren used education as a tool to escape poverty. However, they differ in their feelings toward education and the life chosen by their parents.

Isolation, meaning a state of separation, is often misperceived by many as people frequently believe that isolation is always a negative state of being; that isolation due to emotions is non-realistic, and that isolation is always involuntary. These myths are commonly accepted; however, the novel Crow Lake takes a different stand from these myths. Mary Lawson, author of the novel, demonstrated isolations in many of its forms through the protagonist, Kate, and a small, desolated rural community that represented the primary setting of the novel, Crow Lake. By doing so, Lawson reveals the counterfactual nature of these myths and thus correcting the misconceptions that the society has about isolation.

In the article, Wilson stated “Billsupporters highlight groundwater testing provisions they say will be the strictest in thenation. After the bill passes, water within half a mile of well sites will be tested beforeand after drilling for quality and pollution” (Wilson, 2014). This giving people a piece ofmind knowing that their water should be safe, but the environmentalist are stillpetitioning because of skepticism of how safe the hydrolic fracking will be.Wilson makes a great assessment of how the fracking can pave the way for gascompanies and does seem more towards giving an opinion about fracking. “Stategeologist estimate that the Triassic basins, which cover a little over 1,200 square miles ofland, could have as much as 2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and there is less than 273trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves in the U.S” (Wilson, 2014). This means that thisis a great find for energy companies and it can also allow revenue for the state as well asbring in more

There is an overpopulation in the largemouth bass population due to the fact that there isn’t as many people fishing largemouth bass as they usually did. At the year 2001, the amount of largemouth bass caught decreases by about 600 fish. Which leads on to the fact that the largemouth bass population increases when their main predator isn’t killing them as much and leads onto a overpopulation. The ph levels are turning more acidic by decreasing to the ph level of 5.5 . This causes the the food sources for the fish to have slower reactions which allows them to die easier and causes the food source for the fish population to be low. Missing information that would be valuable to the continued analysis of the problem or would better identify the initial causes of the problem is to show how much pollution comes to the tri-lakes and to see where it comes form during the years of 1988-2008. This would allow me to see if pollution is really the problem to the ph levels. Policy recommendations that I would make to helps the Tri-lakes economy be better is for allowing the amount of fish caught to rise due to the fact that the amount of fish are overpopulating. Also to allow only a certain amount of waste can get into the lake to stop the ph levels turning acidic. An example is for people to clean their boats before fishing in the lakes to prevent more bacteria or chemicals entering the lake. Also to monitor over the pollution or waste from the

Did you ever wonder how things you do everyday effect the Chesapeake Bay watershed and Its tributaries? Well, It turns out to be not so good. One of the main causes for the Bay’s bad health are nutrients which are caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus in the air and water. Plants and animals need nutrients to survive but when too many nutrients are in the water they fuel the growth of algae blooms and create conditions that are harmful for aquatic creatures.

Despite so many thoughtful, new amenities for those living in Lake Nona, Florida — one of the state’s fastest-growing residential areas — much more is yet to come.

Phosphate allows species, such as cattails, and algal blooms to grow that upset the balance of the everglades ecosystem. This contributes to dissolved oxygen concentrations that are lower, and causes a change to take place in food chains. Certain species like the cattail flourish with the higher

Volcanoes are some of the most powerful natural forces known to man. Volcanoes usually form at divergent and convergent boundaries. Sometimes they form in the middle of plates where magma fights through the crust. By understanding volcanoes, scientists get a window to the inside of the Earth. They can also study volcanoes to perhaps get closer to predicting eruptions in the future. One of Earth’s volcanoes is Clear Lake. Clear Lake has unique characteristics such as its location, how it forms, and how it erupts. It had erupted in the past with the potential to erupt again.

When you look at the title of this paper you ask yourself, what is fracking, and you probably try to learn the definition so that you’ll actually understand what I am writing about. However, I am going to tell you what fracking is. What is fracking? Fracking is the injection of fluid into the ground in order to get natural fossil fuels to come to the surface, in order to use them for gas and other things (Fracking). How does fracking work? Water and sand are pushed into the ground horizontally and small explosives are inserted in order to push out oil and gas from the natural rocks that are there. Fracking has been going on for decades but there is a new type of fracking, deep fracking, that was first used in Texas in 1999 (MacDonald, 2004). There are good and bad effects of using fracking to get natural gas, many different things are effected on the Earth either way.

Lake Toba is located in Sumatra, Indonesia (Figure 1). The Toba Eruption was the last of three major eruptions, which occurred over the past million years, creating a volcanic caldera1. The most recent eruption, also known as the Youngest Toba Tuff erupted around 73,000 (± 4000) years ago2. This created a global catastrophe that effected many species, including humans. Many researchers have linked this even to the most recent bottleneck in human evolution resulting in a dramatic drop in the human population to only about 3,000 to 10,000 in a very short period of time3.

Boone, Walter H., and Mandie B. Robinson. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On": Recent Studies Link Fracking and Earthquakes." Defense Counsel Journal82.1 (2015): 68. Web. 26 Mar. 2016. Walter Boone and Mandie Robinson, both partners with the Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy, LLP law firm for over 10 years, question whether or not earthquakes and the recently new innovation of fracking have a direct correlation with each other, and introduce some legal issues associated with them. Boone and Robinson focus on two articles referenced as the “Keranen” study in which they assert their opinions about the results. The authors seem as though they don’t completely believe what was written in the “Keranen” study and it is evident throughout their word choice and tone. They agree that there is an underlying layer of skepticism that covers this specific topic, however, they cite a collection of articles for various facts and statistics that show a definitive rise in

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release the gas. Scientists are worried that the chemicals used in fracturing may pose a threat either underground or when waste fluids are handled and sometimes spilled on the surface. The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry non-profit organization, claims fracking has been “a widely deployed as safe extraction technique,” dating back to 1949. What he doesn’t say is that until recently energy

The purpose of this experiment is to understand the effects of nutrient enrichment and eutrophication, using samples of water from Rio Salado and Encanto Park. The samples will contain different concentration levels of nitrogen, phosphorous and nitrogen and phosphorous combined and the impact it has on algae growth. The results recorded showed that the nitrogen concentration levels had a little change, phosphorous levels had a higher change and phosphorous and nitrogen combined had a significantly higher change, resulting in higher algae growth. The results showed that phosphorous indeed is a limiting nutrient in algae growth, but to achieve the highest growth rate, both nitrogen and phosphorous need to be combined.