U-High Creek Water Quality Analysis

The water quality of the U-High creek was excellent, however not all creeks have excellent water quality. One way that a creek could get polluted, is the farmers who live and plant their crops near-by. The crops that they plant need to be protected and helped to grow. By doing those things the farmer uses fertilizers and pesticides, which as rain falls and washes away these chemicals, into near-by creeks. The problem with that is, the fertilizers, which contain large amounts of nitrates and phosphates, causing a substantial growth of algae, that is a problem because they grew and make the amount of oxygen in the water considerably less. Eventually the algae will die, and when they die, the bacteria that decomposes the algae takes up all of …show more content…
You shouldn’t mow in this area except once or twice a year otherwise the roots may get damaged and the lack of plants to kind of filter the toxins and bad things into the water (Munson Township, 2016). The simplicity of this solution causes it to not need installation or anything and the cost is actually really low because you would actually mow less than you would normally, so it will actually save you money. Although, the aesthetic value isn’t very good because the grass may become over grown and not look very good. There definitely some good things that come out of this, the plants and animals in this area, can thrive and grow without the influence of pollution in the water. As well as the plants can help prevent erosion, and also absorb some of the toxins and pollutants in the creek (Munson Township, 2016). However, there are some down sides to this solution. In some urban areas, the no-mow zone needs to be larger, but it goes into people’s properties, but some people don’t want their yard not mowed. Additionally, if you don’t allow enough room the creek’s unpredictable movement may cause the way the creek flows to shift unpredictably. As you can tell that isn’t a good thing because that cause the ground to