St.
James College Letter of Introduction
Dear Global Water Sampling participants,
We are a small school located within the city of Melbourne,
Australia. The name of our school is St. James College and the
nember of students at the school is roughly 450. It is located in
East Bentleigh, a suburb south east of the city. Our school is
closely related to the community and we participate in many
community based activities.
The water body we have decided to test is the Yarra River. The Yarra
is the main river that runs from the highlands in eastern Victoria
through to the suburban inner city area and out to the sea ( Port
Phillip Bay). The land use over the course of the river changes
quite significantly from dense bushland, through to semi-rural and
industrial. We will be testing the river in three different places.
1. Warrandyte. An area that is near the source of the Yarra.
2. Kew. A place around the middle of the river ( suburban/industrial
).
3. Westgate (city). Where the river meets the ocean
(docklands/Industrial)
The tests we will be performing are as follows:
" Temperature
" pH
" Dissolved oxygen
" Nitrates
" Phosphates
We will also be recording our general observations.
We expect the water quality of the Yarra River to be relatively
clean, close to the source, and more polluted as we get closer
towards the city.
Please look out for our results which we will send soon.
From,
The Year 10 Environmental Science Class.
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Home School Students Letter of Introduction
Let us introduce ourselves. We are a group of three homeschool families
with 8 children from grades 1 to 9. We have named our study group Flower
Fall Christian School. We are located in Plano, Texas which is north of
Dallas at approx. 33N, 96W.
We have chosen to study a branch of Indian Creek which runs through
Arbor Hills Nature Preserve. The Preserve is a county park with
woodlands, grasslands, a pond and the stream.
We felt that our water quality would be good as the stream is very clear
and clean. We used a LaMotte water monitoring kit for all our tests
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Somers High School Letter of
Introduction
Please allow us to introduce ourselves; we are a College Chemistry class at
Somers High School, Somers, CT. As an extension of an engineering module on
water chemistry and waste water treatment, our class is participating in
Connecticut's sponsored Galileo Project. In the past few weeks and in the
next few weeks our class will be taking the initiative to investigate the
quality of two local streams.
Somers is a small, rural community in north central Connecticut with a
history rich in agriculture. Throughout the past few years the community has
undergone tremendous growth in population; as a result many new residential
neighborhoods have been developed. Both of these situations have enormous
implications n the quality of our local watershed, expecially in the Gulf
Stream and Scantic River.
Our hypothesis is that as we monitor the two waterways within the town of
Somers the quality of the water will degrade as sampling sites move further
away from the mountain area through the more populated area of town, ending
downstream of a small wastewater treatment plant. It is expected that both
nitrates and phosphates will be increasingly elevated as the testing
proceeds downstream.
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Bulgaria Letter of Introduction
We analyze the quality of the water of the main water basin for Sofia -
artificial lake ‘Iskar’.
Reservoir ‘ISKAR’ is the biggest reservoir in Bulgaria and in the Balkan
Peninsula. Its construction was finished in 1856. It is situated in 30
kilometers from Sofia. Its water is used for electric power from
hydroelectric power stations ‘Pasarel’ and ‘Kokalyane’. The zone
‘Shtarkelovo gnezdo’ is situated on the shore of reservoir ‘Iskar’. There
are wooden houses for tourists and people on a vacation and a small
restaurant.
We measure the following parameters:
· Temperature
· pH
· Nitrates
· Phosphates
· Turbidity
· Coliform Bacteria
· Dissolved oxygen
· Carbon dioxide
We have a technical co-operation in the measurements from the Chemical
laboratory, which is in Purification station for drinking water ‘Bistrica’.
It carried out everyday analyzes of the coming into the water-main of Sofia
water.
We make tests of each sample three times and take the average value. Our
prognosis is that the quality of the water corresponds to the requirements.
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Standing Rock High School Letter of
Introduction
We are writing from Standing Rock High School. It is located in Fort
Yates, North Dakota. Our latitude is 46.00 and our longitude is
-100.63. Our advantage biology class comes from a very small school
and town. Our high school has about 250 students grades 9-12. Our
advanced biology class has 7 students. Our towns are very small and
we all live on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
We would like to prove that our surface water is safe to drink. Most
of us in the class all drink from the same water sources, the
Missouri River. Our water is monitored by the M.R.I. project,
Municipal Rural Irrigation, located in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Sincerely
The advanced biology class from Standing Rock High School
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Woodstown High School Letter of Introduction
Woodstown High School (N39° 38ft’/54.8”, W75° 19’/16.3”) is located in
Salem County, New Jersey. We are in the middle of Woodstown, a small
community in rural America. Chestnut Run Creek goes through miles of
farmland before emptying into the Delaware River. Along the way, it is
exposed to many of the chemicals necessary for farming. It is also
exposed to the students of the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School
District as it passes through our playground. ]
We believe that the water in Chestnut Run will be of poor quality do to
contamination from chemical fertilizers and pesticides. These chemicals
will most likely cause high amounts of phosphates and nitrates to be
present in the water.
Water and Agriculture- both necessary for life, but will they ever get
along?
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New York City Lab School for
Collaborative Studies Letter of Introduction
Our school is the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies. We are
located in Manhattan (40*40"N x 74*W). Since October we have been raising
brown trout in our classroom. Our goal is to release the parr into the Cross
River in Westchester County on May 30, 2003. At the river we will conduct
water quality tests to assure that the water is suitable for our fish. We
believe that our tests will show that the water is of very high quality. We
will accept nothing less for the trout we have cared for all year long.
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Piedmont Middle School Letter
of Introduction
Hello to our fellow water project companions!
Piedmont Middle School is set in the East foothills of San Jose, a city of
nearly one million people. We have a mild climate with basically two
seasons, summer and winter. Our average temperature is 70 degrees. We NEVER
get below freezing. At one time there were orchards and crops throughout the
valley. Now, we have become known as the technology capital of the United
States, better known as Silicon Valley.
Latitude: 37:20:07N
Longitude: 121:53:38W
We just were awarded the California Distinguished School Award. There are
nearly 1,000 students at our school. We have been gathering data from a pond
and creek near the school. The arial view shows the pond to the west of the
school and the creek, south of the school, looks like a green snake that
runs east to west.
We've had a hecka good time checking out the water. It's nice to have class
outside. Our hypothesis was that since we had a very dry year, the pond
would not be so healthy. We had the same hypothesis for the creek. We are
particularly concerned about the dissolved oxygen levels. The pond, because
of lack of rain, was three feet below the normal level for winter.
We would like to thank the Berryessa Education Foundation and Intel for
awarding grant money so that we could participate in this project.
Thank You!
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Jangsung Girls' High School Letter of Introduction
Hello from Taebaek, South Korea, to all other participating schools of the
global water sampling project lab experiment.
Do you know South Korea where the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea-Japan was held?
Unfortunately, Korea was divided into two parts in the fifties : South and
North Korea. Korea is a peninsula in the far East and Taebaek is a small
city with a population of about 50,000 inhabitants.
Our altitude is 600 meters and coordinates are 37.10 degrees North and
128.59 degrees East.
The grades in our school range from 9th through 12th grade and there are
around 650 girls and 50 teachers at our school. The Science Club of my
school has 25 members and we study and research science experiments every
Thursday for two hour.
We are excited about participating in such a widespread experiment. We hope
the project is successful. Thank you for taking the time to read our letter.
Annyung....(means both hello and goodbye in Korean).
Sincerely yours, Jangsung Girls' High School.
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