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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

great lakes in regional context

1. the biggest lake in terms of volume is Superior at 2.934C.U. miles and the smallest is Erie at 116C.U. miles
2. the most urban lake is Erie and the most rural is superior.
3. lake Huron has the longest shorline 3,818 miles.
4.we can best manage the ecosystem by watching what we dump into the lakes and what we do with them.
5.two types of pollutants that pretain to my project are petroleum products such as gasoline and oil that come from cars, oil refineries, and streets that can get into the water and kill plant and animal life living in that water. this pretains to our project because if hydrogen is used as a fuel source it gives off clean emissions that will not harm the water. another pollutant is inorganic chemicals that can come from mining and manufacturing and oil field operations this pretains to my project because the chemicals that come from the oil and mining industries will not be there if hydrogen replaces oil and coal.
6a. the watr i use from my house goes into the septic field and then disipates into the ground
6b.runoff water is water that sits on top of saturated ground and runs into places such as rivers, lakes,creeks, streams, or into the ground water and water table.
6c. runoff water and sewagre water do go to the same place and should because they both contain pollutants and need to be cleaned.
6d. some sources of pollution in runoff water are litter, feertilizers, pesticides, cars, paint, and corroded metals.
6e. the difference between point and non-point source pollution are point source comes from localized easily identifiable sources and non-point does not.
6f. a watershed is a region or area drained by a river, stream, etc.

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