Sewage overflow and pollution question 3) Environmental Impacts: Explain how the

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Sewage overflow and pollution question

3) Environmental Impacts: Explain how the ecosystem would be impacted by the overflow.

a.   What relationships inside the ecosystem would be disrupted?

b. What would be the short term and long term impacts of the overflow?

c.   How would the biogeochemical cycles be impacted?

** Add before and after pics of the impacts made by sewage damage

4) Economic Hardship: How would this impact the local economy? What about problems to tourism? Etc.

**One whole slide on the top question

a.   List of potential individuals or groups in the community and region who could be affected by untreated waste overflowing into the river: downstream communities, birdwatchers, the Friends of Beaver River group, Beaver River Homeowners Association, wildlife, health department, Super Bowl fans, livestock association, water bureau, US Environmental Protection Agency, farmers, fishing enthusiasts, boaters, swimmers, road bureau, water treatment plant, sewage treatment plant, etc.

**Name 3 individuals and their pics plus background info:

Explanation / Answer

3 .a

Sewage affected the ecosystem as it will result in the killing of aquatic organism because it is resulted in the depletion of dissolved oxygen. Hence, aquatic ecosystem will be affected .

b. Short time effect of sewage overflow are foul.smell, cleaning associated, sight of floating waste

Long term effects are public health affected and ecosystem balance will be disturbed.

c. As biogeochemical cycle are associated with cycling of nutrients and water, so when water get polluted due to sewage flow, biogeochemical cycle will be affected especially water cycle .

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