THE RIVERWOOD MYSTERY
Rick BarrettMik KlossJames Karasch
What’s Ahead
What caused the Fish Kill Facts Visuals Hypothesis Result Clean-Up How to prevent in the future
Cause of Dead fish
Nitrate contamination
Facts
Fertilizer possesses a high amount of Nitrate Nitrate doesn’t directly kill fish, it simply
weakens their immune system, and disables their ability to reproduce; it does however, deprive the water of oxygen. Therefore, kills the fish
Bi-product of bombs Water already claims a small amount of
nitrate Canada’s pollution laws aren’t as strict as the
United States’
Geographical Facts
Just up stream from Riverwood, is the farm town “Farmville”
Up north in Canada, there’s a bomb factory in the town called Hiro-Shima-Eh’
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Hypothesis
With the facts we know, we can conclude that the people of Farmville, have been dumping fertilizer in the river. And at the beginning of September, a storm came down through Riverwood from Canada, bringing the Nitrate pollution along with it. With the combined fertilizer and bomb plant contamination, the nitrate level grew to a dangerous point and…
Result
Everything in Snake River died of nitrate poisoning, leaving hundreds of people in Riverwood disappointed and upset. A disaster that could’ve so easily been avoided
Clean-up
The best method of clean up we found is to simply wait it out. Keep people from drinking water anywhere along the stream.
Questions/Comments?
Bibliography
http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/watercare/a/nitrates.htm
http://www.ec.gc.ca/ceqg-rcqe/English/Html/GAAG_Nitrate_WQG.cfm
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