Spring Lake Creek And Its Effects On Water Quality And...

Spring Lake Creek is located off of County road E in Sawyer County. The Spring Lake creek has a culvert that goes under County road E to Spring Lake. The culvert has the water flowing from Spring Lake into Spring Lake creek. With the road right by Spring Lake creek, one would think how much of the runoff from the road affect the water quality and invertebrate life. That is exactly the hypothesis a group from the Fresh Water Ecology class had come up with and wanted to experiment by testing two pools and two riffles. One set closest to the bridge and another away from the bridge. Historic events might have played a role in the conclusion of the experiment. Introduction Spring Lake Creek can be found on county road E off of†¦show more content†¦That mink ranch has caused DDT to runoff into Spring Lake from the mink farmers washing out the mink pens. That DDT runoff eventually made its way to spring Lake creek. (Heim, 2016). DDT is no longer legal in the United States of America since 1972. It was banned in the United States because DDT was very persistent in the environment and can travel long distances in the upper atmosphere (DDT Ban takes effect, 2015). DDT was first used in World War II to control typhus, malaria, and body lice (epa, 2015). Around the year 2000, The Wisconsin DNR washed out their firefighting foam in Spring Lake creek killing off many clams and possibly different kinds of species. It is also very possible that there were species in Spring Lake creek that are no longer in there due to that event (Heim, 2016). Spring Lake creek initially had beaver dams in it too. In the 1920’s, the beaver dams were r emoved by dynamite. Once the beaver dams started to show up again in the 1990’s, the beaver dams were removed manually (Heim, 2016). Spring Lake is also a part of Red Cedar lake watershed (Integraded resources management plan 2010, 2010). Materials ïÆ'Ëœ Thermometer ïÆ'Ëœ D-Net ïÆ'Ëœ Pans ïÆ'Ëœ SICI Sheets ïÆ'Ëœ Waders Methods The day the experiment was conducted was on April 18th 2016 at Spring Lake creek. Spring Lake Creek is located on county road E about less than a quarter mile from Williams road. In order for the fresh water ecology class to conduct