We wanted to know how much rice a single person eats in a single meal. We guessed that one cup is about right. So we calculated that 1 cup of cooked rice is about 5000 grains.

David and I did water testing on the
We did the testing at 11:30 on 5/19/2009.
We needed to do the testing to make sure that the river is healthy.
We used a Hasch water testing kit. Here are the results
Facts
Dissolved oxygen | |
# plastic measuring tubes | 2 |
#titration drops | 23 |
MG/L | 11.5 |
% saturation | 110 % |
Turbidity | |
Rep. 1 inches above target | 16 inches |
Rep. 2 inches above target | 15.5 |
Ave. inches above target | 15.75 |
NTUs | 15 |
Water Temp. | |
Degrees f | 60 |
Degrees c | 15.6 |
Current Weather | |
Air temp. f | 72 |
Air temp. c | 22.2 |
On Sunday May 17, 2009 we took a canoe trip down the
As we padded down the river I noticed that most of the islands were very wild and the shore was covered in crusted mud along with rocks. Most of the houses along the river were very well kept up and a lot had boat houses. We also saw lots of ducks and geese.
We left the river before the dam. The dam consists of 4 parts;