Student Water Quality Practice: Go to: http://www.water-research.net/watrqualindex/index.

htm Instructions: Conduct the necessary calculations to determine the water quality of the case study below. Introduction: You are an APES student at Kearny High School- SCT and have been asked to do water quality testing of the San Diego River. You go to the river and collect water samples and bring them back to the lab. uring the lab you conduct the tests below and your results are listed. !sing your results" determine the Q-value for each of the tests and multiply by the eighing !actor for each one. #otal up the values for the $ tests to determine your overall ater "uality score# Sample $alues !or San %iego &iver Temperature Change: ' pH: ' Turbidity: '( Total %issolved Solids )T%S*: +(( %issolved ,-ygen )%,*: '. /iological ,-ygen %emand )/,%*: 0. Phosphates: + 1itrates: 2( 3ecal Coli!orm: . %ecal coliform& '( #otal solids& )( issolved o*ygen& '+ p,& '' #urbidity& -$ .iochemical o*ygen demand& -( /itrates& 01 #otal phosphate& -+ #emperature& )+

Conclusion: .ased on your data" what is the Water Quality of this particular water sample2 Explain how you determined this: .ased on my data the water quality was between 3( 4 1( meaning it was medium. 5 believe the water quality inde* is so low because of the amount of turbidity" .6 " nitrate levels and total phosphate since the qualities are fairly low. Small amounts of phosphate is harmful to the water as well. #he p," dissolved o*ygen and fecal coliform are what is keeping the water quality barley at medium. .oth low coliform levels and p, being neutral contribute to the high quality value as well.