Level 9 Guiding Question: How do we evaluate our watersheds?
Before we can evaluate our watersheds we must know the terminology as well as, what and how to measure what we observe. To do that you will have to be certified by completing the on-line course above that is maintained and created by the California State University. Click on the button below to begin the course, you will be required to complete each step and record all questions and answers in the you "knowbook" or notebook. There are times the app will not correctly record your progress or anwers so recording them in your notebook is essential, so please save yourself alot of heartache and record your progress and answer. If the computer loses your previous day's data you will have to start over ......from the start (uggh)!
Exploring and defining our watersheds: Read the the following manual as your teacher instructs, and follow it up with the activity outlined in the student workbook below.
Level 9 Guiding Question: How do we evaluate our watershed?
Living in our Watershed-Macro-invertebrate ID Lab
How to set up the lab
Level 9 Investigation: Using Daphina to evaluate water quality
Protocol information for instructors: (use these as you wish or disregard)
Forms and how to Culture Daphina
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How to do the water quality Testing using Daphina
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Level 9 Investigation: Using Macroinvebrates to evaluate water quality
Form teams of 3-4 each team is responsible for materials (see the "Sampling macroinvertebrates" worksheet below), data recording, and equipment list below as, well as the digital water quality monitor probes. Check with your teacher for other materials you might need.
Level 9 Videos: How to evaluate watersheds using Daphina and Macro-invertebrates
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Enter Stream Data here:
Macro-invertebrate Evaluation
Level 9 Elaborate: Macro-inverebrate ID Video or slide show.
You will be responsible to create a video or talking slide show that will educate people about what macroinvertegrates in our Cache Creek watershed. In addition, you will required to also give an assessment of our water quality based on the number and types of macroinvertebrates you survey at your time at the creek. Along with your evaluation you will also tell your audience how to identify your insects and inform them how their presence indicates water quality.
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Level 9 Review: Take the following practices tests and reviews to help you prepare for the summary unit test.
Take the practice test below to help prepare you for the test.
Waste Water Treatment Plant Review
Waste Water Study Guide
Level 9 Summary: Test Unit
Support for Sites Ranch for Surface Water Storage
By Heather Hacking, Chico Enterprise-Record
“Hope is not a strategy” when it comes to water supply, said Bryce Lundberg, chairman of the Northern California Water Association. Lundberg Family Farms has grown rice in the Sacramento Valley for generations, and could not do so without a steady source of water. Last week Lundberg officiated at a gathering of hundreds for the NCWA annual meeting, held at the Sierra Nevada Brewery’s Big Room in Chico. He said he thanks “God for those water advocates of past generations for developing settlement agreements that create certainty in times when (water) systems are stressed.”Now it is the responsibility of the current generation to make sure there is enough water for future generations, he said. Several speakers at the annual meeting brought up Sites Reservoir, which has been talked about since the 1960s, and had renewed momentum beginning in 2001. Today, a Sites Joint Powers Authority, www.sitesjpa.net, is preparing environmental documents for the next step of the project.
If built, the reservoir near Maxwell could store 1.8 million acre-feet of water. Water available each year could be 400,000-500,000 acre-feet. The cost would be billions of dollars.Investors in the Sacramento Valley are being asked whether they are interested. One estimate is that water from the project would cost $600-$700 an acre-foot. This year is a good example of how stored water can be used during droughts, said David Guy, president of NCWA. Metropolitan Water District in Southern California finished Diamond Valley Reservoir in 2003. The storage in the lake helped the region get through the 2014 drought year, Guy said. Residents in the East Bay Area received water stored in Lake Pardee and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir provided supplies to San Francisco, Guy added.
Last year, Folsom Lake came dangerously close to being inoperable, causing panic in the Sacramento region. Guy said these are all examples of why the state needs another reservoir, specifically Sites.Several speakers during the meeting said water storage means water for farms, people, the environment, water quality and groundwater recharge.Guy focused on salmon, which need water releases at critical times during a drought. If Sites Reservoir had been built, Guy continued, an additional 400,000 acre-feet of water would have been available this year.
One acre-foot is 325,851 gallons of water, enough for 1-2 households for a year. One of the state’s top water leaders, Mark Cowin, director of the Department of Water Resources, said the focus on storage is important right now. “When reservoirs rise again, water will once again slip off the front page of the newspaper. We will start to lose the will to make changes that are so important to our future,” Cowin said. “We have a lot of recent momentum,” Cowin noted. Cowin also had some advice for Sites Reservoir proponents: They should keep the state’s Water Action Plan in mind,
The 30-page document spells out Gov. Jerry Brown’s “playbook” for what he hopes to accomplish for the remainder of his term, Cowin said. “The plan points out there is no single fix,” he continued.More water storage is needed, as well as better water delivery, increased groundwater recharge, storm water capture, and other water strategies. The passage of Proposition 1, the water bond, in November shows that most voters in the state are concerned about water, Cowin noted.mWithin the bond is $2.7 billion for storage projects with public benefits. However, Sites is not the only project with plans on paper. If a project like Sites can several key water needs, it will have a better chance of gaining support, he said.Cowin said Sites “can add some much-needed flexibility to our system for managing fish and wildlife and improving water quality reliability.“There have been a lot of complaints for a long time that there has not been new water storage in California. “This is an opportunity. But financing is just one part of the equation,” Cowin said. “The fact that you all are willing to engage and play the role of project proponent is extremely important. “The most important thing you can do right now is organize that information, continue to be vocal proponents and expand the coalition of folks willing to” provide financial support.
A deadline of December 2016 is coming up for Proposition 1 proposals, he noted. One of the speakers later in the day was Fritz Durst, chairman of the Sites Joint Powers Authority, (www.sitesjpa.net). He noted current groundwater problems in other areas of the state do not need to be repeated in the Sacramento Valley. If built, about half the water available in Sites would go to the environment, and about half for other water needs.Groundwater recharge will be increasingly important in the Sacramento Valley, Durst reiterated. Having more surface water available would decrease dependence on groundwater, and would help recharge groundwater, he said.
“Hope is not a strategy” when it comes to water supply, said Bryce Lundberg, chairman of the Northern California Water Association. Lundberg Family Farms has grown rice in the Sacramento Valley for generations, and could not do so without a steady source of water. Last week Lundberg officiated at a gathering of hundreds for the NCWA annual meeting, held at the Sierra Nevada Brewery’s Big Room in Chico. He said he thanks “God for those water advocates of past generations for developing settlement agreements that create certainty in times when (water) systems are stressed.”Now it is the responsibility of the current generation to make sure there is enough water for future generations, he said. Several speakers at the annual meeting brought up Sites Reservoir, which has been talked about since the 1960s, and had renewed momentum beginning in 2001. Today, a Sites Joint Powers Authority, www.sitesjpa.net, is preparing environmental documents for the next step of the project.
If built, the reservoir near Maxwell could store 1.8 million acre-feet of water. Water available each year could be 400,000-500,000 acre-feet. The cost would be billions of dollars.Investors in the Sacramento Valley are being asked whether they are interested. One estimate is that water from the project would cost $600-$700 an acre-foot. This year is a good example of how stored water can be used during droughts, said David Guy, president of NCWA. Metropolitan Water District in Southern California finished Diamond Valley Reservoir in 2003. The storage in the lake helped the region get through the 2014 drought year, Guy said. Residents in the East Bay Area received water stored in Lake Pardee and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir provided supplies to San Francisco, Guy added.
Last year, Folsom Lake came dangerously close to being inoperable, causing panic in the Sacramento region. Guy said these are all examples of why the state needs another reservoir, specifically Sites.Several speakers during the meeting said water storage means water for farms, people, the environment, water quality and groundwater recharge.Guy focused on salmon, which need water releases at critical times during a drought. If Sites Reservoir had been built, Guy continued, an additional 400,000 acre-feet of water would have been available this year.
The 30-page document spells out Gov. Jerry Brown’s “playbook” for what he hopes to accomplish for the remainder of his term, Cowin said.
A deadline of December 2016 is coming up for Proposition 1 proposals, he noted. One of the speakers later in the day was Fritz Durst, chairman of the Sites Joint Powers Authority, (www.sitesjpa.net).