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The Riverwood Mystery

The Riverwood Mystery. Rick Barrett Mik Kloss James 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

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The Riverwood Mystery

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  1. The Riverwood Mystery Rick Barrett MikKloss James Karasch

  2. What’s Ahead • What caused the Fish Kill • Facts • Visuals • Hypothesis • Result • Clean-Up • How to prevent in the future

  3. Cause of Dead fish • Nitrate contamination

  4. 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’

  5. 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’

  6. Visual

  7. 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 high and killed hundreds of fish in Snake Riverg

  8. Result

  9. Clean-up

  10. Bibliography • http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/watercare/a/nitrates.htm • http://www.ec.gc.ca/ceqg-rcqe/English/Html/GAAG_Nitrate_WQG.cfm • Chemistry: In the Community

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