River testing is extremely important and without it the people in communities can be at danger if something is or could possible pollute the drinking water. River testing allows us to not only monitor what's in our own drinking water, but allows the community to realize the area's limitations of what they can and cannot do to nature and raise awareness for their actions. Thanks to the previous river testing results from the last 20 years, we can compare previous trends with our future recording this semester in two locations to monitor and research on the possibilities of where, why, and how South Orange's water is being treated. We will be monitoring at the base of South Mountain reservation, as well as down by Cameron park. Hopefully, after we compare our data with the previous data, we can see if our data fits the previous trends, or if it deviates in any way. If is does deviate for better or worse, we should investigate why this has happened. Personally, I feel pretty excited to go out into the field and start doing something hands on that would benefit the community around us. This would be like getting ready to take off the training wheels and start to take control. I know our group will be ready, and hopefully this will give us a lot of experience for the real world. http://www.nj.gov/dep/greenacres/ga50/photocontest.html
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