Problems



Problems we had while stream mapping were erosion, fast moving waters, slippery rocks while walking across the stream, sand bars, debris in the water, trees in the way of measuring, and mistakes when reading the measurements. Erosion is when weather, sediments, soil, and rocks in their natural environment cause the ground to gradually break down. Erosion affects the stream measurements because, like sand bars, it makes it harder to work with and or around while trying to measure. The fast moving waters and slippery rocks affected the balance of the people that were measuring the lengths and width of the river. Sand bars in the stream are from where the rocks are and the sand can’t move from around them. There were several parts of the stream with debris piles in the middle, which affected the measuring across the stream. A tree in the way of the measurements was a problem but we worked around them. When the measurements got messed up, it just took a little longer than we had planned because we had to do the measurements over again. When mistakes were made, not only did the mapping take longer but the measurments can be off from the problem as well.