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Rivanna (South Fork) Watershed Experience

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What is a Watershed?

• It is as simple as asking --- “If a drop of rain lands on a spot, where will it go (flow)?”

• A watershed is a geographic area draining to a common stream, lake or river.

• Watersheds can be little or big ---sometimes really big.

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Water runs off the land …

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Don’t Forget - The ground also absorbs water just like me!

Sponge Bob says:

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What is your watershed address?

It can be local or regional. It can be small or big.

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Camp Albemarle’s Watershed“Rivanna (South Fork) Watershed”

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Rivanna (South Fork)Moormans

Mechums

Charlottesville

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Stone-Robinson’s Watershed“Rivanna Watershed”

Stone-Robinson

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Regional Watershed“James River Watershed”

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The Whole Watershed“Chesapeake Bay Watershed”

Charlottesville Maryland

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What Little River Runs by Camp Albemarle?

The Moormans River

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Is this river clean?Is it healthy?

• One way to find out is to look and see what lives in the river.

• What types of organisms (living things) can we find in the river?

• At the river, we will be collecting macroinvertebrates.

• What are macroinvertebrates?

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Life Cycles

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Life Cycles & Habitats

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Very Sensitive CrittersOrganisms that are very sensitive to polluted and stagnant water!

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Mayfly

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Stonefly

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Gilled Snail

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Sensitive CrittersOrganisms that are sensitive to polluted and stagnant water!

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Dobsonfly

Hellgrammite

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Dragonfly

Damselfly

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Crayfish

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Tolerant CrittersOrganisms that are not sensitive to polluted and/or stagnant water!

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Crane fly

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Aquatic Worm

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Leech

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How do we collect these critters?

We use special nets to catch the critters.

Then we carefully look for the critters as they squirm around in the net.

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Enviroscape

Enviroscape is a model that shows you how a watershed actually works.

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See You at Camp Albemarle!!!

At the River!

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That’s All!