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Hi friends... what is our general topic? waterpollution? Our topic is water pollution on some rivers in the outlaying areas and we are going to test the pH levels of them and we are going to try and figure out what the source of the pollution is and if there is any major companies around the area if they are doing anything to help prevent water pollution.

1) Test pH of some major rivers, lakes, etc. in the area. 2) Compare the pHs and look for any sources of impurities in the water. 3) Find out if anything is being done to reduce any pollution. 4) Find out what the effects of the pollution has on animals. 5) Find out where the water from these places goes to and who consumes it.
 * //Okay boys and girl, this is our plan://**

Here is a link about pollution in PA. http://www.fish.state.pa.us/anglerboater/2001/jf2001/wpollbas.htm

check this link out http://www.epaops.org/

here is another link.... it talks about Gov. Ed Rendell about a water pollution act. http://wwn-online.com/articles/70960/

http://pfbc.state.pa.us/CountyGuide/County_Guide.

TMIK: yo i have an idea for where we can test the Ph!! as a kid my dad use to go to this river with his family and it use to be clean and algie free. But ever since i think it was a sewer plant moved in and started dumping "treated sewer waist" into the river things have been getting murkey and full of gunk crapy stuff. Soooooo....... idk if u wana do it there.

-hey guys every one love a good wikipedia site. u know wat pisses me off big time, mexico dumping raw sewage into a river that flows into USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_pollution **Nice work so far! Keep it up! ~Shaw 4.12.09** ===If we are still gung ho about this PH testing than here is a cheep kit for testing many kinds of water impurities. Think about it... http://www.indigo.com/Test-Strips/pH-test-strips.html =D, the river that i was talking of is the unamie, here is an artical on the river. http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/watermgt/WC/subjects/WSNoteBks/WRAS-03E.html **ok boys and Dre listen up we are going to meet at my house (Reber) sunday morning around 8 or so, so we an begin our AMAZING water adventures!!! hey guys i found this website that tells us the history and back round informtion about the schuylkill River http://www.schuylkillriver.org/ ok guys listen up dre had alot of stuff typed up and ready to go but when she went to save her computer lagged at the very end of class lol so we will discuss what we are doing sunday on the way to the River **  ===

WE HAVE TEST STRIPS courtesy of evan!!!
Hey friends, I (Zach Nguyen) emailed the person from the Schuylkill River website and this is her response to it....

Stroud Water Research has been conducting water testing  on the Schuylkill for several years. Contact them at (610) 268-2153 . [|www.stroudcenter.org]  I'm not sure which e-mail address you should send your request to. The webpage should be able to give you correct contact information. Regards, Susan Fordyce

Yo homeslices, here is some information on drinking water or waste water in Pennsylvania. http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/watersupply/cwp/view.asp?a=1251&Q=448745

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">**I am excited about the direction this is taking but there is not a lot of work on the wiki. C'mon guys - it's important that I see the process as well as the finished product. Shaw 4.27.09**

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tyler: sry guys i couldnt be there sunday, I got grounded cuz some retarded guy at a subway in walmart had to open his F#$%N mouth to my mom about somthing he thought i did was wrong. Any ways, if there is any thing you need done ill do it for you. Ya and i just had a talk with Mrs. Shaw and she said that we dont have enough content, she thought that we should go around to many differnt little creeks, maybe the little lehigh and that will produce a larger number of results. And also that "our story board looks like it could be cramed into 2 blocks", soooo idk if we should meet up one more time? oh and i have the story board

Evan: okay, we have our two major rivers tested, each of our houses water, and we're going to test the school's pH as well. I think if we get a couple small rivers tested we should be good. This weekend me zach and tyler are going to do the interview at the Suburban Water Testing lab in Temple, PA.(the close one)

Water Testing of Lake** **Ontelaunee (Filmed) Water Testing of Schuylkill River** **(Filmed) Water Tested for each of our homes. Interview Scheduled Interview Written Storyboard for Lake Ontelaunee and Schuylkill River**
 * As of April 29th, 2009: Our group has completed:

Tested and filmed school's water
 * As of April 29th, 2009: Our group has not yet completed:

I was woundering if we could get the actual recorded stuff on this computer so we could start working with the info we have.

Ok guys and girl we need to really buckle down and make a direct game plan for this project... The guy from the school facility is coming to class 2nd period tomorrow so we can interview him to see where our water comes from. Now we def. need to call up Lake Ontelaunee Water Treatment Center to see how they are handling the water there and how they manage it. Next we really need to find out if the acidity of water in lakes and rivers change throughout the seasons due to natural or man made sources,So we really need to find that out.

check this site out because it really explains how the rivers water could of been slightly acidic. http://txstreamteam.rivers.txstate.edu/Publications/Curriculum/contentParagraph/0/text_files/file3/Curriculum%20lesson%204.pdf**

Hey group members.... I talked to Ms. Wenninger later in the day and the guy that manages the water for the school will be coming in a little after second period I think she said. So I'm not sure how we will interview him.... hopefully he comes earlier or we can get out of class. I also tried calling a few places but they did not answer so I emailed them. I emailed three places. One was the Andrew Lapinkski from RACC and I emailed two people from the Berks County. If asked about an interview with them early next week. If they don't respond by tomorrow from the email I will call them again after school. And like I said earlier.... I don't have a car and I work weekends starting at 12PM. So if we can schedule stuff during the week or early on the weekends, I'm game. I'm not making any excuses not to work you guys that one weekend. I was busy, so when ever you need me I will help. Oh by the way, I don't want to hear from people saying that you think I am lazy and don't work on our project because I have to work. If things can be scheduled earlier than a day in advance I can call off!!! I don't want to be a slacker or anything but, if there is a problem let me know... don't talk about it to each other. It makes me mad that I have to hear from someone that this is being said.-- Zach

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">**Thanks for your honesty Zach. Pals - don't be mean! Keep it up and remeber to keep asking yourselves how are you going to tell people the real point of all of your work. Shaw 5.01.09

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> =O who said Zack was slacking!! if any thing im the one who is slacking.

I found this sight where you can obtain all documents that were ever filed for pennsylvania, they are 75 cents per page and im sure we can find stuff on water shed. http://www.puc.state.pa.us/General/ObtainFileInfo.aspx

I also found a list of #s for all the people in the government. ** http://www.puc.state.pa.us/General/TeleDirectory.aspx

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hey... I asked the person from the Berks County place to have the interview on Monday but, that wont work for her. She said that we could do it on Tuesday. So that will work, the other person from the Berks County place I emailed also responded. He is willing to be interviewed also. So I don't know what you want to do.

Alright teammates we have the interview scheduled for tomorrow. So hopefully it will go well. Tyler, Evan wants to help you with the Public Service Announcement thing. The public service announcement should be about 30secs. So it wont be hard to achieve. It will just be a bunch of facts put into a commercial type form. Evan has some ideas to use on this announcement.

ok guys i found this pretty good site about lake ontelaunee and the people that made this website are the people that actually maintain the lake and they are actually the owners of a soda company lol so here is the link...

http://www.readingpa.gov/documents/rawa_water_quality.pdf

Today all of us will be attending an interview Lyn O'Hare from the Berks County Conservation District.

So our interview was great. Although we got lost on the way there. It was very informational. Lyn O'Hare was very excited about helping us with our interview. She does great work within the Berks County. After school today we will be doing a lab experiment showing us testing water. We will also need to voice over the interview we filmed yesterday because some how the video camera we used does not have have audio?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! We are going to do this stuff in Mr. Babb's room. When I say we I mean everyone in your group.

So yesterday we stayed after school to finish filming most of the video. We taped a lab experiment testing the PH levels of the water samples we had gathered from