Macro+Lab+-+Group+6

​Deryk, Connor​ , Amber , Kylin​ ​ , Pricilla

Materials: Microscope, Beaker, Bucket with water and rocks, tweezers. squeegy,creek water, and petrey dishes, dump bucktet.

Non-Point- I think that some of the Non-Point solution is from run off from our drains. I think that some of the point sollution is that the water and the air around it is cold so a lot of bugs are hiding out until it gets warmer.
 * 1) What was the "Multimetric Index" for your water sample? i thought ours was 8? Our sample was 3. And was from the station crea k
 * 2) is the stream acceptable or unacceptable? Our sample was unacceptable because there were an unbalanced amount of each animal. An example is there midges but only 1 beetle 2 planiera and 2 common net spiners.
 * 3) What did you observe that made the stream acceptable or unacceptable? There was a lot of dirt and probably alot of pollution . also there wern't enough bugs and insects ect. for it to really be acceptable and for it to be acceptable it has to have enough macroinvertabrates. If i moved a rock, then a lot of dirt would get kicked up and i wouldnt be able to fine a bug or anything. All the dirt would be in the way of my view.
 * 4)  What do you think might be some point or non-point sources of pollution in the creek? Non-Point would be littering. like throwing trash into the water.