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Kaleidoscope Charter School

Kaleidoscope Charter School. Elm Creek Watershed Management Commission Rush Creek Site #4 October 9, 2008 Fall 2008 Data Time tested: AM. In past 24 hours… Storm (heavy rain) Rain (steady) Showers (intermittent) Overcast Clear/Sunny. Now… Storm (heavy rain) Rain (steady)

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Kaleidoscope Charter School

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  1. Kaleidoscope Charter School Elm Creek Watershed Management Commission Rush Creek Site #4 October 9, 2008 Fall 2008 Data Time tested: AM

  2. In past 24 hours… Storm (heavy rain) Rain (steady) Showers (intermittent) Overcast Clear/Sunny Now… Storm (heavy rain) Rain (steady) Showers (intermittent) Overcast Clear/Sunny Weather Temperature ReadingsTaken in the shade Water Temperature: 9 CAir Temperature: 9 C

  3. Water Appearance Water Odor Check one: • Clear • Blue-green • Green • Yellow • Brown • Milky • Check one: • None • Fishy • Musty • Rotten eggs • Septic

  4. Residential Commercial Agriculture Natural/Preserve Lawns Wooded Crop land Grazing land Feed lot Paved roads or bridges Unpaved roads Construction Recreational use Industrial Land fill Waste treatment plant Evidence of past alteration Local Land Useland use in local watershed within ¼ mile of site

  5. Check one: Rocky bottom Muddy bottom (Record the number of jabs taken in each habitat type) Vegetated bank margins 13 Snags and logs 20 Aquatic vegetation beds 10 Silt/Sand/Gravel substrate 28 Type of Sampling

  6. 1 1’8” 11 0’1” 2 1’10” 12 0’1” 3 1’3” 13 0’1” 4 1’6” 14 0’1” 5 0’7” 15 0’2” 6 1’4” 16 0’1” 7 0’7” 17 0’1” 8 0’8” 18 0’3” 9 0’1” 19 0’2” 10 0’1” 20 0’5” 21 1’3” 31 1’3” 22 1’3” 32 0’10” 23 1’3” 33 1’5” 24 1’5” 34 0’7” 25 1’9” 35 0’9” 26 1’9” 36 0’6” 27 0’9” 37 0’4” 28 0’3” 38 0’4” 29 1’8” 39 0’1.5” 30 1’2” 40 0’2” Stream DepthMeasure the depth across the stream, from right bank to left bank in one-foot intervals for a minimum of 10 measurements

  7. Stream Width3 measurements in feet

  8. Measuring Stream Velocity Trial # • 78 seconds 20 feet • 79 seconds 20 feet • 63 seconds 20 feet • 78 seconds 20 feet • 83seconds 20 feet Average Time of Travel= Total Time divided by # of measurements 76.2 seconds Velocity= Distance divided by Average Time 3.81 ft or meters/sec.

  9. River Bottom Composition and Embeddedness Average Embeddedness Average Embeddedness for the site: TOTAL (add all 10 together) 435/10= 43.5%

  10. Macro-Invertebrates Identified

  11. What the findings mean to the watershed The macro-invertebrates we found and identified have a high tolerance level. We found 50 macro-invertebrates in the range of 0 to 4 tolerance level. We found 77 macro-invertebrates in the range of 6 to 10. We did not find any macro-invertebrates with a tolerance level of 5. This could mean the quality of water at the time of testing is close to neutral, however the low tolerance level of 0 and 3 in three of our samples indicate low levels of pollution in Rush Creek.

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