Macro+Lab+-+Group+1

Ben, Andre, Eva , __//**Claudia**//__ Macroinvertabrates lab

1.What was the "Multimetric Index" for your water sample? Our Multimetric index was three. 2.Is the stream acceptable or unacceptable? Our stream was very unacceptable. Because it was dirty and there was lots of midges and black flies __//**to explain, there were to many specimens in our sample we found 10 small bugs such as midges and black flies in just the small time period we had**//____//**as well the acceptable multimetric index ranges from 7-12**//__ 3.What did you observe that made the stream acceptable or unacceptable? Our multimetric index was 3 and the acceptable stream would have been between 7-12 and the unnacceptable stream was 0-6. Also there were many little macroinvertabrates and I would not like to live in water filled with those things. 4.What do you think might be some point or non-point sources of pollution in the creek? Some non-point pollution could be fertalizer or chemical runoff and a point sorce could be runoff from an oil refinery, chemical factory or waste water refinery nearby.