Hello and I hope all of you have had an extremely good week. Well back to saving our enviorment! The start of the day began rather adventurous with a trek down to the Hautapu river behind the school. I would have to say a very challenging start to our day to wake everyone up and get the nerves pumping it seemed as though the treacherous steep bank was going to hold very few prisoners with a couple of our class mates vowing to never step foot on such density.
But with hearts pumping hands shaking and knees trembling all of us seemed to end up at the bottom even though shoes had been taken of and beautiful uniforms soiled well back to the actual facts.
As a result from clarity tests that Michael, Teri, Ariana and Cody underwent a test to see how clear the water is i.e. how badly does silt effect our river their results have shown that if the measurement is below 1.60metres the reading is extremely poor our river turned out to be 1.65m which slots us into between poor and fair. (not extremely satisfying results)
A group of us e.g. Me- Jess, josh, Teri and Becca also did a bit of detective work ourselves looking for any type of life in the river that suggested our river wasn't polluted. Much to our disgust, it seemed as though what little life there was, was not very beneficial for the welfare of the river we found one dobson beetle with a rating of four meaning five been no pollution and getting worse to one we also found worms with a rating of one and snails that had such a low rating of zero extremely alarming!!!!!!!!!!
Doing the testing on plants was Teri and Cassandra their discoveries founded that mushrooms and toadstools were plentiful this in some ways suggests that fungi is plentiful but the most concerning is the desolation the vastness and the way the river is so exposed meaning that very few trees are protecting and filtering the river and causing unconditional erosion.
Sop as a conclusion the river needs a lot of help and it seems as though it has been neglected for to long and our help comes not a moment to soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But with hearts pumping hands shaking and knees trembling all of us seemed to end up at the bottom even though shoes had been taken of and beautiful uniforms soiled well back to the actual facts.
As a result from clarity tests that Michael, Teri, Ariana and Cody underwent a test to see how clear the water is i.e. how badly does silt effect our river their results have shown that if the measurement is below 1.60metres the reading is extremely poor our river turned out to be 1.65m which slots us into between poor and fair. (not extremely satisfying results)
A group of us e.g. Me- Jess, josh, Teri and Becca also did a bit of detective work ourselves looking for any type of life in the river that suggested our river wasn't polluted. Much to our disgust, it seemed as though what little life there was, was not very beneficial for the welfare of the river we found one dobson beetle with a rating of four meaning five been no pollution and getting worse to one we also found worms with a rating of one and snails that had such a low rating of zero extremely alarming!!!!!!!!!!
Doing the testing on plants was Teri and Cassandra their discoveries founded that mushrooms and toadstools were plentiful this in some ways suggests that fungi is plentiful but the most concerning is the desolation the vastness and the way the river is so exposed meaning that very few trees are protecting and filtering the river and causing unconditional erosion.
Sop as a conclusion the river needs a lot of help and it seems as though it has been neglected for to long and our help comes not a moment to soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
