Light bulbs

    I plan on educationg people on the harmfull effects of light bulbs and letting people know about our light bulb recycleing program at school. I did not even know we had a recycling program for lightbulbs. If more people kne about the program more people ould use it, which would help the enironment.

   We ill be testing the harmfull effects of the glass and the metal from lightbulbs, seperately. We have a control bottle, and two variable bottles, one with glass and one with metal. We will be trying to grow tomatoes in our bio bottles.

     The river water quality test we were assigned is total dissolved solids. The test will show whether there is any solids in the water that shouldn't be there. when a light bulb is broke the glass the metal and the mercury gas in th light bulb, depending on the type of light bulb, can be harmful to the environment. This is why it is important to recycle the light bulbs and not just throw them away, because they will eventually get into the water. All though recycling them is good we have to be careful because we are just gathering up a whole bunch of the hazardous materials in one place. Mrs. Grivins told us about this.

Feild trip

     Eaton Rapids has two types of well filtration. One type is gravel and the other is porous rock. The porous rock takes way longer for water to filter through it, so the water is cleaner. The gravel rock is still effective just not as good as the stone. Eaton rapids has two elevated water tanks, each tank has 1,000,000 gallons of water. We use these tanks to create water pressure which allows use to use fire hydrants and other things. Even though we have two tanks, if we had a bad fire then we would go thruogh the water fast. You experienced how global-thermal heating and cooling works, it uses the water to keep the air temperature at about 52 degrees. In the summer it cools the house by blowing the cool air around, in the winter the inside air is only 52 degrees so it has to heat it less.

I did not go on the feild trip.

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Small City Water

     The drinking water, for the small city of Eaton Rapids, comes from 6 local wells. Eaton Rapids has a 3.6 million gallon per day capicity, we also have 2 one million gallon elevated storage tanks. We have 44 miles of water mains, 569 water valves, and 298 fire hydrants. We have a water treatment center that removes some of iron, adds chlorine for disinfection, and adds flouride for dental benefits.

Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP)
The WWTP is designed to treat an average waste water flow of 1.2 Million Gallons per day (MGD) and a maximum flow of 2.0MGD
Approximately 120 English Dry ton of bio-solids are generated and land applied annually.

The WWTP discharges treated plant effluent into the Grand River.

(http://www.ci.eaton-rapids.mi.us/pw_watersystem.htm#wwt)




1) Q: Where and how long did you go to college?

2) Q: Whats the hardest part of your job?

Assignment 1

1) http://www.carbonfootprint.com/

2) No, i found the site confusing even for me. I would not recommend this to any younger kids.

3) 23.86 metric tons of CO


4)A) I could carpool with other people.
   B) Turn off some of the lights. We don't need as many as we have, if half were on we would be fine.
   C) Improve our recycling program would definitely help the community.

5) Being so close to the Grand River, and the Great Lakes everything we do effects the water shed. Every living thing needs water in some way. If we let our water source be contaminated then every thing around us will suffer.    I'm sure that if everyone knew what they were doing they would try to at least reduce the damage they are doing. I think that carbon footprint calculators could be very helpful in informing people what they are doing to our environment.