Friends of Dinosaur Park : Erosion Control Project BY: Aleksander, Enshaal, Noah, Anthony, Haseeb, Alondra, Erin

This is our erosion spot

What are your first thoughts when viewing this area? There is a creek that causes water erosion, trees could fall, the water is dirty with dirt, exposed roots, fallen trees,dirt, rocks, damaged slope.

What questions do you have regarding this area? How did the animals affect the erosion. What was it like ten years ago. Why is there fallen trees and exposed roots How much erosion happens in one year Where4 is the water in one of our erosion spots coming from What causes erosion Did someone already try to stop erosion Will the trees die from root exposure

What potential problems could happen if nothing is done to fix it? Trees and plants will die Pathway could fall It will get messy More exposed roots

Write down how you can help stop erosion in your area Where there are holes we could put dirt in them Rebuild erosion barrier Plant grass where there is exposed dirt Buy pipes so water can run trough them Put dirt around exposed roots

Proposal Fill in holes and cover exposed roots with top soil so that the roots have soil to grow into instead of thin air which will help the tree survive– $3.50 x2 Plant grass where there is exposed dirt so that the flooding go onto the grass and loosens that instead of soil-$4.99 x1 Make erosion barrier with red bricks so water washes on to bricks instead of dirt- $.48 x42 Put pipe where there is a hole so water from hole flows straight into river instead of eroded the dirt around it-$4.29 x1 Make a creek bank with crushed stone so there is rocks that cannot be eroded istead of dirt that can -$7.33 x1 Work gloves for work so we don’t get messy -$1.98 x3 $0.29 left over

These are just a few ways this will help Dinosaur Park It will hopefully improve its beauty It will get it more visitors It will help our environment It will make Loudon County a better place to live