 Sustainability Master Plan  Effect of Runoff on Stream  Negative Effect on Lake Carnegie  Final Pre-Restoration Assessment  Why this first order stream?

 Geomorphology (Stream)  Substrate, flow, bank-full width, streambed, step pools etc.  Water Nutrient Quality (Stream & Lake) (assessed in Lab)  Nitrates, phosphates, ammonium, dissolved oxygen, etc  Physical Parameters using YSI instrument (Stream & Lake)  pH, turbidity, conductivity, temperature, etc.  Riparian Buffer Zone (Stream)  Bank/soil, tree species richness, vegetative cover biodiversity Assessment

Water Quality Focus: Nutrients

 Merges Nutrients and Riparian studies  Bioindicators of stream health  Allows additional study of biodiversity and richness of stream life  Cost effective, easy, and quick  Popular assessment of small order water systems (Yale Forestry)  Better assessment of long term damage and aquatic populations Additional Phase of Assessment: Macroinvertebrates

Easy template to be repeated:  Collect 5 L of water and soil from disturbed benthic region at each site using small mesh dip nets and large kick net  Return to lab and sort  Identify using Key to Macroinvertebrate Life  Record and enter into Hilsenhoff Biotic Index Collection Method

Data: Washington Sream Pollution Tolerance Value (Tv) assigned to each organism and number of organisms entered into Illinois RiverWatch Hilesenhoff Biotic Index: WASHINGTON STREAM DATA Organisms=∑N = 117 Taxa Richness= ∑TAXA = 9 EPT Taxa Richness = 0 MBI = ∑Tv ÷ ∑N = 8.55 Taxa RuchnessEPT Taxa RuchnessMBI Excellent>= 14>= 5<= 4.35 Good Fair Poor Very Poor<= >= 6.26

Data: Carnegie Lake Pollution Tolerance Value (Tv) assigned to each organism and number of organisms entered into Illinois RiverWatch Hilesenhoff Biotic Index: CARNEGIE LAKE DATA Organisms=∑N = 623 Taxa Richness= ∑TAXA = 19 EPT Taxa Richness = 3 MBI = ∑Tv ÷ ∑N = 6.83 Taxa RuchnessEPT Taxa RuchnessMBI Excellent>= 14>= 5<= 4.35 Good Fair Poor Very Poor<= >= 6.26

 Study of DeNunzio backwash and Elm Stream  Research during/post restoration data to be compared  Further collection of Macroinvertebrates  CAD Modeling of Stream