Data+Turtle+Pond

Arrived at 9:50 am Left at 10:35 am


 * Weather Conditions**: Cloudy, overcast, windy, and cold

Top: 0.01 mg/l Bottom: .24 mg/l
 * Phosphates:

pH levels**: 6.6, 6.2, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, 6.2, 6.5, 6.4, 6.4

Average: 261
 * Conductivity**: 238, 251, 256, 270, 261, 263, 262, 265, 270, 273


 * Fish Caught and Release**d: No fish; construction was done to the pond over the summer, it was too deep to get the net in.


 * Vegetation**: Lilypads, cattails, smart weed, burreeds, common reed, arrow heads, native milfoil, horsetail, and spirea

Aug- 1.88yrd
 * Turbidity**: 13FTU 2yrd- lost sight 1.75yrd- saw it again


 * BOD**: 8.42mg/l- after 5 days 9.62- real number

Surface 9.62mg/l @ 10.9c .5 9.45mg/l @ 10.6c 1 9.66mg/l @ 10.5c 2 9.45mg/l @ 10.3c 3 8.23mg/l @ 10.2c 4 8.04mg/l @ 10.4c 5 7.04mg/l @ 10.2c
 * DO and Temp**:


 * E. Coli**: 6 colonies per 10mL


 * Bottom Dredge**: Gilled snail, fishing spider, amphipod, damselfly larvae, tubifex worm, mosquito larvae, dragonfly larvae/nymph, water mites


 * Plankton Found**:


 * Top-** oscillatoria, arthrospira, microcystis, asterionella (diatom), hyalella (amphipod)


 * Bottom-** epistylis, oscillatoria, cephalobus [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/icon_16_page_link.gif width="12" height="12" caption="permalink" link="http://bioiifour2009.wikispaces.com/message/view/Turtle+Pond/15897436"]]