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| Duck Pond's Water Quality Study |
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This study is a component of the Water Resources Research Center
and The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The
objective of the research is to study the relationship between
E. coli, suspended solids, nutrients (ammonia and
nitrate), and hardness in the water column during rain storm
events. In the past semester Katie Perkins (Biological Systems
Engineering) and Alejandro Galvis-Sterling (Civil Engineering)
have taken twenty-four hour samples at four locations at the
Virginia Tech Duck Pond to study the different pond behaviors
related to the measured water quality aspects. The results
indicate that there is a factor which lessens the bacteria
leaving the Duck Pond compared to the amount that enters it, but
through the research there was not significant data to determine
the exact reason. The research resulted more as a monitoring of
the ponds behavior and it provided several conclusions as to how
to approach the differences between the different phases in
which bacteria can be found; planktonic and sorbed, in trying to
improve the current methods used to monitor surface water
quality. As the research continues, a different approach is being taken to determine the overall objective. The newer approach consisting of determining the soil characteristics of the Duck Pond. Then using theoretical lab analysis to determine the bacteria sorption to the soil which is in the Duck Pond. This research is ongoing currently. |
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Contacts About Research:
Katie Perkins- kperkins@vt.edu
Alejandro Galvis- Sterling- agalvis@vt.edu
Dr. Tamim Younos- tyounos@vt.edu
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Contact Katie Perkins About site (kperkins@vt.edu)
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Virginia Water Resources Research Center 23 Agnew Hall (0444) Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 P: (540) 231-5624 F:(540) 231-6673 |