User:Flowerflee/Colville River (Washington)/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Outline of proposed changes
Click on the edit button to draft your outline. Watershed

I plan to add a picture of the watershed, along with facts on average precipitation, discharge, tributary contributions, snowfall averages, and typical watershed climate. This will all be information from source 3.

Course

I plan to keep and combine everything that is already on the Wikipedia page + tributaries leading into the Colville River from source 3.

Pollution

I plan to discuss two point source pollutants (2 water waste treatment plants- WWTPs), and how modeled concentrations predict Ammonia and Chlorine concentrations exceeding standard quality requirements at the Colville WWTP mixing zone. I will also discuss the critical period for the Colville River. This information is all from source 3. Source 4 will provide information on decreased dissolved oxygen in the summer months downstream of both the Chewelah and Colville WWTPs and its possible effects on aquatic life (related to ammonia pollutant).

History

I plan to talk about the river and surrounding mountains being carved by ice age glacial melting. Also I will discuss Native Americans settling there and hunting Salmon, until fur trappers settled there. Soon after disease fell onto the Native population before there were relegated to reservations. The fur trappers killed the beaver in the river and nearby forest. This information is from source 2. I may discuss how killing the beaver could have changed the river from source 5.

Current Interventions

I will discuss the plan to add beavers back into the Colville National Forest from source 5. I will also discuss the USGS study hoping to inform and support a local watershed plan addressing water quantity, quality, and instream flows for the Colville River. The plan must end up abiding by the Washington's Watershed Management Act of 1998. This is from source 1.