River

Introduction Dams provide energy, water, and flood protection for communities, however as infrastructure ages the risk of dam failure increases (Bowels, 2007). The cost of large dam projects is increasing as climate change impacts the magnitude and duration of drought and storm events in California (Mann & Gleick, 2015). On February 7, 2017 Northern California Butte and Yuba County residents were forced to evacuate as the near failure of the Oroville Dam threatened downstream communities…

back story on all of them. It tells the size, established dates, highways, bodies of water and even how much of the area is water related to each area. “The main water course is the Big Blue River, which bisects the county flowing north to south. Other rivers, creek sand streams include the Little Blue River, Red Vermillion Creek, Deer Creek, and Horse Shoe Creek. In total, 43 names streams may be found in Marshall County. There are no major identified lakes or reservoirs in the county.” (Blue…

to water quality and wildlife habitat. A riparian zone refers to stream bank system, including the stream, soils, flora, and fauna within it. Riparian buffers, specifically, are one of the most significant structures to implement along streams and rivers because of the structure’s many functions and abilities. Riparian buffer zones act as a canopy to shade and cool stream temperatures, as a filter strip to attenuate sediment, pollutant, and nutrient runoff, and as a wildlife habitat, all wrapped…

The lamprey life cycle begins in freshwater streams. Once they hatch from their eggs the young ammocoetes bury themselves in a U-shaped burrow in silty or sandy river bottoms (Mee-Mann). The ammocoete, however leave their heads out of their burrow in order to filter feed on algae and microscopic organisms in the stream. The lamprey young often will migrate at night by drifting on the current, and then re burrowing downstream (Mee-Mann). Ammocoetes will often grow up to five inches long in their…

In the novel, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen it talks about a boy named Brian who is on his way to his dad's house, but on the way the pilot has a heart attack which leads to the plane crashing. In the beginning of the story Brian started to get creative and make stuff like a shelter, a food storage, and a sphere to fish with. But later on he was starting to lose all the fish and berries, and his shelter was falling apart, he decided to cut himself with his hatchet to put him out of misery. He woke up…

Environmental parameters Vs Plankton Incidents: The graphs presented in figureX to figureX, environmental parameters observed at different sites in each area are presented area wise along with the harmful plankton incidents observed. Average temperature, dissolved oxygen and salinity observed each day at each farm site is used to plot these graphs. There has been a notion that with drop in salinity, which means freshwater run off, there would be increase in nutrients and supporting higher…

To perform the study, two streams were picked from different watersheds. In Carrollton, Georgia, Buffalo Creek from the Tallapoosa in the city limits was the first river we visited. This stream was next to paved roads, apartment complexes, and was located inside a paved park; urban area. The second stream, Yellow Dirt Creek, was located off a dirt road, with little to no houses close to it; rural area. This stream was part of the Chattahoochee watershed, and is in Roopville, Georgia. It is…

The rain that fell on Thursday was record busting. Over nine inches of rain fell in Boulder that day. That was almost double the previous record of 4.80 inches set back in 1919. All of that rain had nowhere to go but down the overtaxed creeks and rivers. Friday, September 13 - The rain began easing off in the morning and most of it was gone by mid-day. In Boulder, the rainfall for these five days amounted to 14.62 inches. The flooding the rain caused was massive. For example, Boulder Creek…

A 42-year-old woman from Alberta named Rhonda Cardinal was lost in Northern Alberta's wilderness after blacking out on a rabbit trapping trip in 2012. She was living off berries and river water. She couldn't explain how she went missing. She "blacked out", woke up lost and started wandering around through a bush. When she was lost, she encountered a bear. She survived for 16 days. The "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen is about a fourteen year old boy named Brian Robinson who's traveling to Canada to…

There are many factors that contribute to the conclusion that the steelhead trout will and will not be able to reestablish themselves in the Arroyo Del Valle presently. Some of the most important factors for the re-establishment of the trout are the relatively stable pH, adequate DO levels, and low pollution. From our graphs, it is evident that the pH of the creek is consistent around 7, which is a pH that the steelhead can establish themselves and live in. Steelhead trout require a DO level…