Water, Water Everywhere; Drink it if you DARE!

1. Water, Water Everywhere; Drink it if you DARE! Jane Addams Business Careers Center Euclid Creek: Our Testing Site

2. Euclid Creek Watershed • Euclid Creek watershed is located within Cuyahoga and Lake counties in Northeast Ohio covering 24 sq. miles that drains directly into Lake Erie. • The Watershed has evolved over the past 100 years to one of the most highly urbanized areas along the Ohio Lake coastline.

4. Cleveland- 5.8% Euclid- 7.6% Richmond Heights- 6.5% South Euclid- 8.8% Highland Heights- 19.6% Lyndhurst- 17.7% Willoughby Hills- 9.9% Mayfield Village- Mayfield Heights- Euclid Creek Watershed Percent Drainage by Community

5. Euclid Creek Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program • Volunteers from the community monitor and document water quality of the watershed. • The Program is currently being submitted for approval under Ohio EPA’s Credible Data Criteria Program and it is hoped it will serve as a model for other watersheds in Cuyahoga County.

6. Collecting samples at Wildwood Park

7. Euclid Creek Volunteer Watershed Monitoring Data At Wild Wood St. Park By: Jane Addams BCC

8. Types of Water Pollution Nonpoint source water pollution does not come from a specific location. Some examples of this include runoff of water from city areas, agricultural land, or from poor forestry practices.

9. Point Specific pollution is where you know right where the pollution is coming from. For example, a factory that is putting chemicals into the water.

10. Five Monitoring Sites of Euclid Creek Volunteers • Wildwood State Park- Cleveland • Metroparks Highland Picnic Area- Euclid • South Euclid Library • Schaffer Park- Lyndhurst • Chardon Road Site- Richmond Heights

11. Our testing site at Wildwood Park

12. The Tests • Water temperature • Dissolved Oxygen • pH • Conductivity • Turbidity Stick (Suspended solids) • Turbidity measurement (spectrophotometer) • Reactive Phosphate • Ammonia

13. Pilar handling chemicals like a pro!

14. Additional chemicals that we tested for at Euclid Creek • Carbonate • Chloride • Chromate • Iron • Lead • Phosphate • Sulfate

15. Clarissa getting ready to collect water samples.

16. OUR RESULTSWater Temperature

17. Dissolved Oxygen Percent

18. pH

19. Conductivity

20. Reactive Phosphate

21. Ammonia

22. Turbidity Spectro

23. Getting more water samples.

24. Chemicals found in Euclid Creek • For all five months, the results were negative for: • Carbonate • Chromate • Iron • Lead • Sulfate

25. Positive Results • Again, for all five months, we found these chemicals to be present: • Chloride • Phosphate

26. So, what does this all mean? • Chloride- it is dissolved from rocks and soil and is present in sewage and industrial wastes. • When chloride is an excess of 100 parts per million, water has a salty taste and when it is in excess of 150 parts per million, damage may occur. • Chloride also increase the corrosiveness of water when it is present in higher concentrations • In the winter, it comes from the salt used on the roads.

27. Phosphate- Comes from fertilizers, detergents, wastewater of domestic origin such as human, animal, and plant residue, and from wastewaters of industrial origin. Phosphate is added to farm and city water systems to control hardness • Phosphate is from laundry detergents can result in overgrowth of algae, which in turn will cause the algae to die at a high rate and undergo decomposition. This decomposition process depletes oxygen from the water and will result in increased fish kill.