Robbins Park Water Case Study

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According to Mrs. Loch’s fourth period class, there are many reasons as to why some things were wrong with Robbins Park’s water. The reasoning varies due to many different factors. Physical factors such as weather is a major issue. It’s an issue because it changes, and is not always the most credible data tests. This can affect different chemical factors of the water’s quality such as the pH and turbidity. The turbidity was 5 JTU was clear, but the DO level was 4ppm which is liveable, but very low. Also, the phosphat level was 2.75 ppm which is very high seeing as normal is below 0.03. Biological factors were also a problem because of the organisms living in the pond which were mostly pollution tolerant with limited to none pollution sensitive one. They can show the effects of the poor water quality, and if they are absent they show pollution/unsuitable conditions. The chemical factors can also affect the water quality. When leaves begin decomposing in the pond, phosphates are left behind, which can also be a reason why we found high levels of phosphate in the pond. We believe that there are three possibilities why phosphate levels are really high at Creepy Pond. One …show more content…

A conservation buffer is a small area of land with permanent vegetation. It is designed to slow runoff, provide shelter, and stabilize riparian areas. This could decrease the amount of pollution getting into the water and causing the high levels of phosphates, and acidic pH in the water. There are many types of conservation buffers, our class believes the filter strip will work the best around Creepy Pond. A filter strip is a generally narrow and long area of vegetation; the vegetation we would use is grass. We will have to buy and plant the grass seeds. The cost of the seeds will be determined by the amount it will take to cover the filter strip being placed around the

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