Abstract:
The project was conducted to see if the imperviousness of the area had a correlation with the water pollution. The hypothesis stated that there would be more pollution with the higher percent of imperviousness. The first, and probably the hardest step to this project, was finding streams that were all similar with a shallow riffle. Then the conductor will place a net in the water, start the timer and turn over as many rocks as possible, upstream from the net (macroinvertebrates should be trapped in the net). When the timer reaches 2 minutes the net should immediately be taken out of the water and everything on the net should be transferred to plastic bags. The last step is identifying and counting all the macroinvertebrates.
The results showed no direct correlation between the data. There could have been many reasons for this; not only was the environment of the stream a huge factor (current, amount of rocks...) but the temperature and the way I estimated the......
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