Conodoguinet Creek Research Paper

Dry Creek station was likely built in the spring of 1860 by Bolivar Roberts and his crew. It was one of the last stations to be built by the Pony Express. It is located four miles north of Highway 50, in Lander County, Nevada. The station was used by the Pony Express and Overland Stage as a home station (historic). The Pony Express riders would go from Dry Creek westward to the north (expedition.com). The riders had a high chance of getting attacked by the Native Americans and this proved to be true at Dry Creek. They had early problems with the Indians, which caused an attack on the workers of the station on May 21, 1860. On this day William Streeper, a carrier of heavy mail and two others found the scalped and mutilated body of the station

Although it will take a lot of time and effort to rectify the conditions at Newtown Creek, the variety in the recommendations from all the groups shows how many options are available to go about it. Some of the ideas need some more foresight in accounting for all three pillars. For example, it is not always a good idea to focus too much on environmental needs if the tradeoffs put social needs at too high of a risk. Even so, each suggestion has its own merit, especially when you use them together. By implementing multiple ideas you are tackling more then one issue/pillar at a time. Therefore, the overall outcome is better then limiting the benefits to a specific area of mediation. As Gestalt’s Theory in psychology states, “the whole is greater then the sum of the parts.” To have a successful whole you must have numerous inter-reliant components with different levels of priority depending on effectiveness, cost, social impact, and time frame.

Our experiment was conducted in late January at Wet Beaver Creek. Wet Beaver Creek is located south of Flagstaff in the Coconino National Forest (34.663470, -111.669943). Wet beaver creek has an elevation of 1158 meters, with an average annual precipitation of 42.4434cm, and an average temperature range of 26.711111 C in July and 6.166667 C in December. The Wet Beaver creek area has a perennial and ephemeral stream, each with diverse riparian woodland, composed of Populus fremontii (Fremont Cottonwood), Fraxinus velutina (Arizona ash), Platanus wrightii (Arizona sycamore), Juniperus deppeana (Juniper), Alnus oblongifolia (Arizona Alder), and Quercus arizonica (Arizona white oak).

Introduction & Background The Conodoguinet Creek flows through Cumberland and Franklin counties of Southcentral Pennsylvania. From the Horse Valley next to Kittatinny Mountain at an elevation of 1680 feet, the Conodoguinet Creek flows 104 miles through the fertile Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania, joining the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg. As it meanders north-eastwardly across a broad plain between Blue Mountain on the north and South Mountain on the south, the Conodoguinet flows through Buchanan State Forest and State Game Lands No. 76 then flows into Letterkenny Reservoir and changes course to a southeasterly flow.

At Mr. Bodley's station we tested the amount of pollution in the water. Specifically we tested

In conclusion all of this data helped us determine if the creek was healthy or polluted. The eutrophication test and acidity tests gave us a really good idea if the creek can neutralize acid and how many phosphates and nitrates are in the creek. We now know that the Conodoguinet Creek is a limestone creek. The stream insects and crustaceans that we found had a positive effect on our hypothesis. Out of all of our data, we have found out that the Conodoguinet Creek is a healthy creek.

On our following field trip to the Conodoguinet Creek, our mission was to determine if the creek was polluted or not. We tested different kinds of experiments with measurements to determine, in our opinion if the creek was polluted. We would then travel to different stations to collect the following data that would reveal the truth about the creek. If the Conodoguinet Creek is polluted then the phosphate level will be high.

Russell Creek Park is in large community park which located at Plano. It has soccer court volleyball court and lake etc. After weekend especially after children soccer game people will left with garbage. Who is responsibility for it? It is the people who went to the Park’s responsibility. As a student our power is not so big, but we can still do something small to help it.

We also did the Nitrate tests. For the results, we received 2.0 or less. That means the water is in good quality. Next we did the Dissolved Oxygen test. We obtained results that were in 10.0, 11.0 and 12.0 which means that the water is good quality. But the first group who did this test gathered a 9.0 which is fair. This means that the water is kind of polluted. The rest of the tests we did were testing the acidity and alkalinity. The results were positive, but for the first trial of the pH meter reading, the results were fair.

It is very important for that water quality is monitored in water supplies and natural aquatic systems

On Thursday, October 6th, 2016 I studied the Conodoguinet Creek in Cumberland County, PA. I went to the creek to study the health of the creek itself (Phosphate levels, Nitrate levels, Dissolved Oxygen levels, pH levels, and Alkalinity levels). My hypothesis was: If I test the Conodoguinet Creek for signs of acid rain, eutrophication, or other types of pollution, then the tests will reveal that the creek is healthy and has very low levels of pollution. Eutrophication, is the excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other bodies of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life due to lack of dissolved oxygen. Dissolved Oxygen (or DO), is the microscopic bubbles

The procedure for this task was the following: teams were separated into three sections. Each section was responsible for collecting three rocks from their section of the creek. The first rock was collected and with the forceps, the organisms that were in the rock were collected and put in the Haier tray. After collecting all the organisms found in the rock, the stopwatch was set for 15 minutes; within this time we identified the invertebrates. As a guide we used the aquatic entomology text by McCafforty (1981), to helps us identify the organisms. Data was recorded from the identification of the organisms in the laboratory notebook. After finishing counting and classifying the organisms of the first rock, we proceeded with the second and third rock. The controls for this part of the experiment depended on the organisms found in the creek, because some of the organisms indicated if the water was in a good condition or not. After the data for this task was collected, all the teams exchanged their results. Then we put everything in its place and we headed back to the class, making sure that none of the materials were left behind. When we got to the laboratory, we washed our hands with soap to make sure that our hands were clean from the

On the DJ Angus, we performed tests on water quality parameters on each body of water: Spring Lake,

Water quality data (fixed-interval sample) collected bimonthly from 1999-2008 and monthly from 2009-2013 for all 18 monitoring sites within the Reedy Fork and Buffalo Creek basins over a 15-year period were obtained from The City of Greensboro Stormwater Division, North Carolina. The sampled data were grouped in range of years from 1999-2002, 2003-2008, 2009-2010 and 2011-2013 so as to obtain a detailed analysis on the data. The sampling sites in the study area were numbered for simplicity of result presentation. Bluff Run (1), Fleming (2), Friendship Church Rd (3), Old Oak Ridge Rd. (4), Pleasant Ridge (5) and Battleground Ave. (6), are located in the Reedy Fork Creek basin (Figure 1). Whereas Aycock (7), North Church St. (8), Fieldcrest Dr. (9), McConnell (10), Merritt Dr. (11), 16th St. (12), Randleman Rd (13), Rankin Mills Rd. (14) West JJ (15), White St. (16), Mcleansville (17), and Summit Ave. (18) sites are located in Buffalo Creek basin. Twelve water quality parameters were selected for statistical analysis.

It is a given that cleaning up the Citarum River will be no easy task. I have been thinking of my own master plan to use ADB’s loan of 500 million dollars for the purposes of reducing the pollution within the Citarum River. First and foremost, it should be understood that it will take about a decade or more to have a major impact on this river. This plan will lead the course of that time span, even if some steps may need to be repeated.