Stream monitoring

Today we did stream monitoring. This was pretty interesting. We could data for the wellington university that use this data and store it in a database. the database is available to everybody and they can see how clean or dirty the rivers are. at the same time schools and the government try and clean out the rivers. apparently last year they had a very dry rain season and then the algae was killing the dogs that was drinking the water.

One person with a gum boots suit goes into the stream and accumulates 5 different samples of water and then we check for algae and any animals and record this data.