FDNSC Water Awareness

Water Crisis

Water test results and what the numbers from them really translate to.

Nitrates- 0= excellent

Phosphates- 5= fair

pH- 6.8= good

ALK- 40= good

May 7th, 2010

There was a cool breeze, clear sky, a dog walking, and birds chirping. The water was moving, and dirty. There was a lot of grass growing out of the bottom of the creek. I was able to notice that there were a lot of flowers growing on the edge of the creek.

Ammonia: 0

Total Chlorine: .2 – Free Chlorine: 0

Total Hardness: 50

Total Alkalinity: 30 good buffering capacities

pH:7 excellent

Nitrates: 2ppm – Nitrites: 0ppm good nitrate levels

Phosphates: 3ppm good phosphate levels

Weather: Sunny, clear skies, about 60 degrees

Run off Catchment System: the top is holding brown, sluggish water, and the plants are green and healthy

Site 1: Grass is still wet, vegetation around stream is overgrown, algae on bottom, the water is not flowing in the middle of the stream, mud on the bottom(although water is clear), faster flow on slope

Ammonia:0

Chlorine: 2 ppm-Free Chlorine:0 ppm

Hardness: 50 gpg(grains per Gallon)

Total Alkalinity: 30 ppm-indicates a good buffering zone

PH-7-neutral

Phosphate-3 ppm-good

Nitrate-2 ppm Nitrite- 0 ppm

Site 2: The coconut mesh has started to grow grass, as well as the trees(that are used as stakes), bottom of the creek has mud, and the water is clear, Lots of rocks are covered in mud and algae, and the water is moving at a slow, trickling pace. Where the log has been placed(for filtration) the water is deep and the bottom is clear.

Ammonia: 0

Chlorine:o Free Chlorine: 0

Nitrate: 0

Nitrite: 0

Hardness: 50 gpg

Total Alkalinity: 30 ppm  PH: 6.8

Phosphate: 5

site 1: little creek

• water is not moving
• covered in plants
• nothing but mud and litter
• small amount of pond scum
• some sort of net in one small space
• water is very cold
• no form of life whatsoever

data:

1. ammonia: 0
2. total chlorine:.5
3. hardness: 120
4. pH: 6.8
5. total alk: 40
6. nitrates: 2
7. nitrites: 0
8. phosphates: 5
9. free chlorine: 0

site 2: buttermilk creek

• somewhat muddy water
• very few rocks
• water is audible
• no vegetation in water

data:

1. ammonia: 0
2. total chlorine:0
3. hardness: 50
4. pH: 6.8
5. total alk: 30
6. nitrates: 0
7. nitrites: 0
8. phosphates: 5
9. free chlorine: 0

i think that buttermilk creek is somewhat unhealthier than it was last time that we fxed it, but it’s still good: phosphates are fair, nitrates/nitrites are excellent, the alkalitiny is very poor, and the pH is good.

little creek is doing okay- the alkalinity is good, the pH is good, the nitrates and nitrites readings are very poor, and the phosphates are fair.

asheville park

I was born a water drop, in the infinite vastness that is the ocean. I stayed for a short time before the smoldering heat of the sun sent me to the heavens. There I lingered for many a month, floating, and colliding with other intellectual hydrogen droplets. One violent night, the heavens raged me from their grasp in a fury, crying me from their pores of fluffiness. I fell in awe of the clouds titanic might into a lake where I was then hurled into the chaos that is named river. The scorching, blistering river was not a place where I could continue to exist, so I vaporized. Back to skies I was sang by the sun. My blissful existence could not continue as I soon got ejected from the sky. This time I landed in land, frosty and arctic. It was a battle that could only be called epic in the most gigantic sense of the word. I tried to continue to circulate, but I could feel the weathers icy tendrils creeping in my very existence. It was like a thousand spears from the most deadly tribe in the Amazon, all piecing my soul with an icy determination. I felt the warmth of life fade from me; time became nothing in the infinite white of the cold. I mutated, my molecules moved away from each other and I became less dense as I was turned into the very frost that killed me. Like a zombie plague I assisted into forcing others into transforming and having to live out this cruel existence as a glacier. In that form i stayed for the rest of eternity, I loathed life as I lived out a frozen existence.