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Rick Barrett Mik Kloss James Karasch
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What’s Ahead What caused the Fish Kill Facts Visuals Hypothesis Result Clean-Up How to prevent in the future
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Cause of Dead fish Nitrate contamination
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Facts Fertilizer possesses a high amount of Nitrate Nitrate doesn’t directly kill fish, it simply weakens their immune system, and disables their ability to reproduce; it does however, deprive the water of oxygen. Therefore, kills the fish Bi-product of bombs Water already claims a small amount of nitrate Canada’s pollution laws aren’t as strict as the United States’
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Geographical Facts Just up stream from Riverwood, is the farm town “Farmville” Up north in Canada, there’s a bomb factory in the town called Hiro-Shima-Eh’
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Hypothesis With the facts we know, we can conclude that the people of Farmville, have been dumping fertilizer in the river. And at the beginning of September, a storm came down through Riverwood from Canada, bringing the Nitrate pollution along with it. With the combined fertilizer and bomb plant contamination, the nitrate level grew to a dangerous point and…
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Result Everything in Snake River of nitrate poisoning, leaving hundreds of people in Riverwood disappointed and upset. A disaster that could’ve so easily been avoided
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Clean-up
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Bibliography http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/watercar e/a/nitrates.htm http://freshaquarium.about.com/od/watercar e/a/nitrates.htm http://www.ec.gc.ca/ceqg- rcqe/English/Html/GAAG_Nitrate_WQG.cfm http://www.ec.gc.ca/ceqg- rcqe/English/Html/GAAG_Nitrate_WQG.cfm Chemistry: In the Community
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