On Friday, we had a lady come to our school and we tested the water in our Rivers Wetland. The depth of our wetland is 0.762 meters and is 14.69 degrees C. We checked the amount of dissolved oxygen that was in the water, the ammonia level, the turbidity, the phosphate level, and the pH level. We went through procedures to test these levels and used a transparency tube and a sonde machine. The Sonde machine was a digital recorder that would record and determine what the water temperature was, what the pressure of the water was, what the conductivity was, and many more. There was a tube like device that was in the pail full of water from the wetland, connected to the recording device which determined different levels. The average pH (phenol red) level for a wetland is 7 and ours was 8.21.
Examples:
Ammonia: 0.05
Dissolved oxygen: 10.6
Phosphate: 0
Conductivity: 218
Transparency: 105.6
Turbidity: 3.55
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