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PEI Summer Internship 2010 Sustainability Category of the Summer Learning Symposium

Pre-Pre-Restoration Assessment of Washington Road Stream and Carnegie Lake Sustainable Watersheds at Princeton University. PEI Summer Internship 2010 Sustainability Category of the Summer Learning Symposium Alana R. Tornello Faculty Adviser: Dr. Eileen Zerba.

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PEI Summer Internship 2010 Sustainability Category of the Summer Learning Symposium

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  1. Pre-Pre-Restoration Assessment of Washington Road Stream and Carnegie Lake Sustainable Watersheds at Princeton University PEI Summer Internship 2010 Sustainability Category of the Summer Learning Symposium Alana R. Tornello Faculty Adviser: Dr. Eileen Zerba

  2. Washington Road Stream Restoration • Sustainability Master Plan • Effect of Runoff on Stream • Negative Effect on Lake Carnegie • Final Pre-Restoration Assessment • Why this first order stream?

  3. Assessment • Geomorphology (Stream) • Substrate, flow, bank-full width, streambed, step pools etc. • Water Nutrient Quality (Stream & Lake) (assessed in Lab) • Nitrates, phosphates, ammonium, dissolved oxygen, etc • Physical Parameters using YSI instrument (Stream & Lake) • pH, turbidity, conductivity, temperature, etc. • Riparian Buffer Zone (Stream) • Bank/soil, tree species richness, vegetative cover biodiversity

  4. Water Quality Focus: Nutrients

  5. Additional Phase of Assessment: Macroinvertebrates • Merges Nutrients and Riparian studies • Bioindicators of stream health • Allows additional study of biodiversity and richness of stream life • Cost effective, easy, and quick • Popular assessment of small order water systems (Yale Forestry) • Better assessment of long term damage and aquatic populations

  6. Collection Method Easy template to be repeated: • Collect 5 L of water and soil from disturbed benthic region at each site using small mesh dip nets and large kick net • Return to lab and sort • Identify using Key to Macroinvertebrate Life • Record and enter into Hilsenhoff Biotic Index

  7. Data: Washington Sream Pollution Tolerance Value (Tv) assigned to each organism and number of organisms entered into Illinois RiverWatch Hilesenhoff Biotic Index: WASHINGTON STREAM DATA Organisms=∑N = 117 Taxa Richness= ∑TAXA = 9 EPT Taxa Richness = 0 MBI = ∑Tv ÷ ∑N = 8.55

  8. Data: Carnegie Lake Pollution Tolerance Value (Tv) assigned to each organism and number of organisms entered into Illinois RiverWatch Hilesenhoff Biotic Index: CARNEGIE LAKE DATA Organisms=∑N = 623 Taxa Richness= ∑TAXA = 19 EPT Taxa Richness = 3 MBI = ∑Tv ÷ ∑N = 6.83

  9. Project Continuation: Next Steps • Study of DeNunzio backwash and Elm Stream • Research during/post restoration data to be compared • Further collection of Macroinvertebrates • CAD Modeling of Stream

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