Water testing

This comes on the heels of an activity the students did where they had to follow the water from the creek outside the school all the way to the ocean. I think mapping it out helped put in perspective how a lot of little problem areas can lead to one big one down stream. Today we throughout the planned lesson and went down to our creek to do some water sampling. You have to take advantage of these 80 degree spring days. Based on our findings, our little creek is not contributing to any issues downstream. Copper, chlorine, pH, nitrates, and phosphates were all at good levels. The water is soft and the DO was very low. I almost wonder if my tablets were bad because it showed no color change at all.