Urban Watershed

Think about the following statement: “Only communities located downstream in a watershed need to be concerned about how the water resources are managed in the watershed.” In my opinion, I strongly disagree with this statement. This essay will explain why even communities upstream a watershed should be concerned due to acid rain, and the risk of contaminated drinking water.

The article “Water Works”, published by Orion Magazine and written by environmental specialist Cynthia Barnett intends to inform the reader anyone can make water an important factor. Overlooking it has become common many people in the United States have adapted to through the changes that have occurred in society over time. At the beginning of her article, she describes an area that does not make water care a priority, whereas in another location they make it very evident water is important. The location she describes is gloomy, grey, and is a populated area that has old water systems that are damaging environmental factors. Barnett continuously emphasizes that people are the ones who can help restore nature. This is at a less cost than

The importance of a watershed is that it provides our drinking water. 70% of Earth is covered in water, but unfortunately 40-50% of our nation 's water is threatened. This could result in non-drinkable water and won’t be able to swim in it or consume the fish that are caught. The leading cause of pollution in watersheds is bacteria and sediments such as E.Coli.

Government officials, Support groups, and residents of El Paso, Pueblo, and Teller counties are currently managing the Fountain Creek Watershed. The Fountain Creek Watershed is a mistreated watershed and the solutions would require a dedicated management group and necessary funding to increase the sustainability of this area. “We are working to create a healthy waterway with appropriate erosion, sedimentation, and flooding that supports diverse economic, environmental, and recreational interests.” (Fountain Creek Watershed, 2015). The collaboration of all agencies working in this watershed will ensure the safety of the environment surrounding the area of reviewed in this research.

The watershed model is used to develop projections of peak stream flows and water surface (flood)

In Los Angeles, at least 20% of fishes died from stormwater runoff. Who’s next? Repeatedly, stormwater runoff has indicated its negative consequences. From the bacteria in feces, to the chemical waste, stormwater has been made a hazard to all life on earth. Platypi, fish, frogs, and other marine life are in an immediate danger by the pollution. The pollution consisted of fecal coliforms and fecal streptococci, which are bacterias in organism waste. In addition, there 's lawn pesticides, and motor oils that are deadly. Water inundates humankind, making this an unavoidable conflict. However, creative solutions of managing the runoff has been proved successful. The solution appears as a green infrastructure, defined as a network system that helps manage water, or in this case, stormwater runoff. On the other hand, there has been recommendations of using public awareness as a solution, but this is only a key factor to a larger concept. In her article, “Water Works” Cynthia Barnett conveys how using these creative solutions such as the green infrastructure, is considerably more beneficial than the traditional ways of reducing water all together. She suggests that living differently with water, compared to reducing water, will benefit the nation greatly in their water dilemma. In addition, she believes that the pollution of stormwater harms Pacific killer whales, coho, and salmon. In agreement, I also believe that the pollution threatens the marine life. Hence, the management of

A watershed is a land area that drains rain and other water into creeks, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.

Human-environmental interaction contributes to processes that affect fluvial environments. Indeed, impervious surfaces are ubiquitous in urban areas; these anthropogenic surfaces reroute runoff (among other things), which can ultimately impact the morphology, water quality, vegetation, and floodplain soils of a local watershed if it is near an urban area. Similar to the above example, because of the complexities associated with

Our watershed is important to us; it is what we need for are water, food, and growth of our environment. It makes us successful as a whole but when we damage it we damage everything we need and work to grow and protect. By doing a couple things for Greeley’s watershed we as a whole can start to change the pollution in our watershed. The plan is to use water barrels to collect the water that runs off the greenhouse at Northridge high school into gutters and the fills the barrels. When the greenhouse plants need water you get a hose and turn it on . with the native plants being planted around the greenhouse that are going to be grown the plants will be space out from the rest but be placed where they will be seen all around

We live in an age where most environments on earth have been impacted by anthropogenic activities. For thousands of years, humans have been a natural component of ecosystems across the globe (Chapin et al, 2011). Human-environmental interaction contributes to processes that affect fluvial environments. For example, impervious surfaces are ubiquitous in urban areas; these anthropogenic surfaces reroute runoff (among other things), which can ultimately impact the morphology, water quality, vegetation, and floodplain soils of a local watershed, if it is near an urban area. Regardless of the anthropogenic presence throughout environments across the globe, ecological benchmarks can be set—physical, chemical, and biological—regarding what constitutes a healthy, natural environment. These parameters are important factors in ecological remediation activities and synonymous with the term “reference condition.” Based on a spectrum of watershed conditions—ranging from reference to

The Potomac Conservancy has served as the leading clean water advocate in the DC Metro area for over twenty-five years, fighting to improve the health of the Potomac River through local action. During that time, we have inspired thousands of local volunteers and activists to join us in our fight to preserve the Nation’s River and protect the water we drink. Many of these friends were first introduced to the Conservancy through our Community Conservation program. This program is split into two focus areas that introduce people to the lands and waters in their community: stewardship and recreation. Currently the more robust of our two focus areas, the Conservancy’s stewardship activities encourage residents of the DC Metro area to take action

In December 2002 the EPA Assistant Administrator for Water issued a strategy reminder entitled "Committing EPA’s Water Program to Advancing the Watershed Approach" This arrangement notice not just reaffirmed EPA's dedication to the watershed approach additionally reenergized endeavors to guarantee that EPA in general completely incorporates the watershed approach into program usage. The notice built up an EPA Watershed Management Council (WMC) to quicken endeavors to create and issue NPDES allows on a watershed premise. (NPDES, 5) Even though noteworthy water quality enhancements have been made amid the previous three decades, water quality issues remain. A large portion of the rest of the issues include complex blends of sources and effects that require coordinated, all-encompassing arrangements. As per the 2000 Clean Water Act segment 305(b) examination of the country's waters, “39 percent of surveyed waterways and streams, 51 percent of evaluated estuarine square miles, and 46 percent of evaluated lake, streams, and repository sections of land excluding the Great Lakes” (USEPA 2002c) , do not completely bolster water quality guidelines. That investigation recognizes point source discharges as one of a few driving wellsprings of weakness in surveyed lakes, waterways, and beach front assets (USEPA 2002d). Stipends given by the

An issue that I see in the world is the lack of interest some people have in asking questions. Frankly it worries me when I learn that other people don’t have an interest in educating themselves about the world around us. It concerns me because when people don’t pay attention to what's going on around them (including around the world) they can make decisions they believe to be in their best interest, but could be harmful to themselves and others.

Hydrology involves the study of the properties, distribution and movement of water within the earth’s atmosphere and at the Earth’s surface. The purpose of the investigation is to carry out a cross section of the urban stream at Macquarie University and uncover any potential strategies to minimise the impacts of urbanisation on steam flow. Urbanisation extensively alters groundwater systems drastically. This can result in hydrological, water quality, geotechnical or social-economic effects, which can jeopardize sustainability. Other impacts that urbanisation has on steam flow also includes: reduced well and river yields, increased chances of floods, reduced quality of groundwater, salinization, poor quality baseflow, the movement of polluted urban groundwater into surrounding rural areas and the ground becomes increasingly unstable. Urbanisation has numerous impacts on groundwater flow. Numerous pollutant sources in urban areas often give rise to plumes, which then move through the aquifer in paths often complicated by the time-variant nature of local abstractions. In residential areas chemical pollutants may be associated with minor spills and in part with sewage pollution. In extreme scenarios wastes could transform the aquifer redox systems, which would be a major cause of pollution. Potential sources of microbiological pollution include human waste systems, animal wastes and waste water injection. There are numerous engineering impacts of urbanization on steam flow. Any

I chose to review the poster entitled Discovery of the Arkansas Darter in Cow Creek Watershed, Cherokee County, SE Kansas presented by Dr. James Whitney of Pittsburg State University. Dr. Whitney and others conducted a survey of the fish communities of the Cow Creek watershed in southeastern Kansas. A total of 29 sites were surveyed within the watershed which is highly modified as the result of agriculture. Sites were surveyed from February to November of 2017 using back pack electrofishing as well as seining. The Arkansas Darter (Etheostoma cragini), a state threatened species, was collected at 3 of the 29 sites during the study. Previously, the species was only known within the region from the Spring River mainstem and Shoal