Data Analysis Report for the 69th Street Diagnostic Project Winter & Spring of 2004.

Abstract

Non-point source pollution is an increasing issue for waterways in all urban areas. It is a difficult and expensive problem to track in terms of what specifically are the pollutants and in what quantities they exists. Changing behaviors of residents to lower the amount of pollutants flowing off the urban surface into waterways is another costly and troublesome task. This idea for this project was to focus water quality testing in one neighborhood’s storm drainage system, in Springfield Oregon, and one pollutant, bacteria. By focusing on a small area and collecting baseline data of where the bacteria is coming from, the second stage of making decisions about how to best address those more concentrated pollution generation areas through educational outreach and the tracking of the results of that education can begin.

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