Evidence of pollution in the water

Here is evidence of pollution near the water of the creek from all 4 sites:

Site 1 (Under the Bridge)

Site 2 (Murray Prior Reserve)






Site 3 (Creek 1)










Site 4 (Creek 2)

Pollution by Urbanisation

I found that there is a water channel that runs through the middle of all the houses into Tarban Creek. This would carry all the pollution and other wash-off into the Creek. A short way up the Creek there is a filter wall that does nothing to prevent the pollution going into the Creek. The arrows show the flow of the water and the circles are where the filter is. There are pics as well.

Mind Map of what i will eventually finnish

Just an awesome mind map...

More Samples

Because ill be finished testing the first two samples from sites 1 and 2 soon, i got samples from the next to sites today to bring in and test tomorrow. I have now collected from all four sites and here is where they are:

Because ill be finished testing the first two samples from sites 1 and 2 soon, i got samples from the next to sites today to bring in and test tomorrow. I have now collected from all four sites and here is where they are:

Walk Around Tarban Creek - Wild-life/History/Human Activity

The creek is home to lots of vegetation and animals as well.

Sites 3&4 - DUCKS!!!!  ^

As well as seeing the ducks on my walk, i found information boards that informed me not only on the history of the creek, BUT, on the Wild-life and Human impact on the Creek as well. Here are just a few examples:

Sample site 2 - Murray Prior Reserve - History/Human Impact  ^

Gives information on rocks and Human impact on them in the 1800s and the Human impact on the Creeks water in 1911 when it was used as a swimming bath.

   Sample sites 3&4 - Wild-life  ^

Gives an information on the animals that live in Tarban Creek's polluted environment with examples of animals, and compares them with the animals that would live in a less polluted environment.

Tarban Creek - Human Activity  ^

Explains the affect of Human Activity (urbanisation) has had on the Creek, such as heavy pollution, and effective ways to improve on the problem.   

The others will be typed up into the report.

Before i continue on with my work, here is a written hazard analysis so i can start using equipment.

Sample info, locations

Today i collected 2 water and soil samples from under the bridge and Murray prior researve to study tomorrow and i will get another 2 samples later this week. Here are the locations below:

Location for Samples

Today i walked around the area to find locations that were good for the assessment and found two spots, one urbanised and one relitivly not to work with. They are both shown on this link of an aerial satellite shot from google maps. http://g.co/maps/66gm7