ECS 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: South Florida Water Management District, Florida Bay, Urban Sprawl
16 Jun 2016
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Average rainfall in south florida 60 inches per year. Water usage agriculture (industrial) and urban sprawl (too many people is a problem) Nutrients fertilizers like nitrogen and phosphorous end up in water supply runs into. Null hypothesis: there is no difference in the concentration of chloride. Alternate hypothesis: there is a difference in the concentration of chloride. Hypothesis 1: there is an increase of chloride toward the coast. In south florida, the highest concentration of chloride resides in seawater which has a concentration close to 19,000 ppm. There is very little chloride in drinking water. 250 ppm is recommended limit of chloride by epa chloride gets in by salt water intrusion. ***think about other hypothesis rainfall and evaporation, drought, chemicals info from sfwmd. gov. Collect data with increasing distance relative to coast line. There is an increase in chloride because of leakage from the minor artesian water-bearing zone of the florida aquifer system.
