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    Pierce’s Landing is three hundred acres of land that goes back six generations. Its been a successful cattle farm since the very beginning. Pierce’s Landing is at the core of the legacy that is the Pierce surname in Hope. Now that’s a shit tonne of pressure and expectations resting on my shoulders. Laying my surf board down on the sand, I shake my hair out cursing myself for forgetting my towel. The damn solicitor’s voice from yesterday keeps repeating itself in my head, ‘Pierce’s Landing including

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    how (language features) and why (contexts) different interpretations are represented in the study text and how those has enhanced your interpretations of the text. The Secret River (2013) a play adapted by Andrew Bovell from the book of the same title by Kate Granville, is set in colonial Australia along the Hawkesbury River. It focuses on the Thornhill Family, an English family recently transported to Australia and the Dhurag people, an Aboriginal family already living on the land. The purpose of

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    iscuss what is meant by “ecological integrity” and relate this concept to rivers. In your answer describe the components of a river we could use to ‘measure’ integrity Ecological integrity? Ecological integrity 1.3 pdf Ecological integrity perceived as the ‘maintenance of all internal and external processes and attributes interacting with the environment in such a way that the biotic community corresponds to the natural state of the type-specific aquatic habitat, according to the principles of

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    Colorado River The Colorado River had the highest water quality of all tested sites. The dissolved oxygen at this site was 8.92 mg/L and could be attributed to a number of different reasons (Table 1). The sample was taken when the sun was high and water dwelling plants had been photosynthesizing for a number of hours. The water was flowing fairly quickly and there was a small riffle at the area where the reading was taken which could have increased dissolved oxygen of the water. The river had a

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    Descriptive Statistics The spatiotemporal pattern of water quality in the Reedy Fork and Buffalo Creek watersheds exhibits a trend of river deterioration, mainly due to Fecal Coliform. Our study suggests that most of the pollution sources were related to human activities. Looking at table 2a to 5b, it is clear that, F.Col, coliform is the dominant parameter with the highest means in all the sites, both at the Reedy Fork and Buffalo Creek watersheds. However, there are higher mean values of this nutrient

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    sites The Merced River is the southernmost watercourse of the California Central Valley presently inhabited by Chinook salmon whose abundance has decreased by 75% since 1950 (Yoshiyama et al., 2000). From its headwaters located in Yosemite National Park, Sierra Nevada, the Merced River flows west to join the San Joaquín River (river km 190) and drains a watershed approximately 3,297 km2 in size. Meanwhile, the elevation declines from 3,048 m to about 18.3 m. Only the first 82 river km are reachable

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    Figure 1. The species richness of aquatic macro-invertebrates among three stream types. The same number of species was found in the forest and urban streams. There was an insignificantly higher number of species found in the agriculture stream. Figure 2. The biotic index of the three types of streams was calculated by the sum of total tolerance values divided by the sum of total number of individuals. The forest stream had the lowest FBI value, followed by the urban stream and the agriculture

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    private road entrance on the east end, making trespassing required to access the riverfront. In addition, the banks along the river are steep and highly susceptible to erosion. No access to the water is possible with these conditions. The site is completely within the flood zone and temporary flood protection only exists a fourth of a mile beyond the site. The area along the river and mill creek is in the floodway, meaning even minor flooding affects the area. The rest of the site is within the 100-year

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    The aim of this research is to develop a set of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of water-related climate change adaptation interventions at the local community level in Thai Binh province. This will help authorities at high levels, NGO officers, local residents and other beneficiaries as they can evaluate the “effectiveness” of water-related interventions. The robust indicators will help to adjust the adaptation targets for given times, to ensure the accountability to stakeholders, to provide

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    money, fixing the drainage system, and by coming up with procedures or regulations for future constructions, so people can build their new establishments on higher grounds. It has been stated by the Weather Channel that, “In June of 2016, the Brazos River crested just over 4 feet above its previous record flood stage at Richmond, Texas” (Tom Moore). Beings that Collage Station is located in a Bryan Valley, the area is mostly flat terrain with occasional hills and slow absorbing soil, packed with large

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