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1 Water Pollution Point Source Pollution Pollution source can be specifically identified

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4 Non – Point Source Pollution As water from rainfall, snowmelt and irrigation flows across the surface of the land, it picks up contaminates from many different sources and deposits them into local lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands

5 Runoff from roadways

6 Melting snow and ice carry surface contaminants into the watershed

7 Parking lots and marinas are non-point source pollutants

8 Farms and Landfills

9 Eutrophication The process in which a body of water develops high levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. (usually from sewage or fertilizer) – Nutrients cause an increase in the growth of aquatic plants – Also cause an increase in amount of blue-green algae – Algae forms surface mats which shade the lower levels of plants from sunlight

10 As bacteria and algae die, the decomposing bacteria multiply. The decomposing bacteria uses up all the ocean in the water Other, oxygen breathing, organisms also die

11 Cultural Eutrophication When the increased level of nutrients in the water is a result of human activities

12 Group Work Construct Multi-flow maps for the following water pollution events. North Carolina Bay of Pigs pp 463-464 Outbreak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin pp 468 Outbreak in Walkerton,Ohio pp 469 Medical Lake pp 469 –70 Eutrophication of the Gulf of Mexico pp 472 Exxon Valdez pp 471 -474


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