Human Pollution

Fortunately, this post is going to be a very short one. We found little to no evidence of pollution in our park! This is a wonderful accomplishment for Winstrom Park because I know that it has struggle with controlling the littering of its visitors.

Don't let this good news get to your head because it could possible be just because the number of visitors significantly drops during the winter months. To get a true handle on the amount of pollution, summertime is the best option. 

Reasons for Lower Levels of Pollution:

- Strict fines for littering

- Park Cleaners

- Colder weather

- Recent demolishing of trees

- Lots of Trash Cans

- We measured the amount of trash we found as we walked around the trails of the park. We hardly found any of this solid pollution anywhere, mainly in the river. This could be from places other than the park that is simply carrying it downstream. 

- Regardless, we measured out about 9 square inches of trash collected against this log. 

-Adding in the cigarette butts and other miscellaneous small items that were scattered about we considered that to be about another 9 inches (there were a lot of cigarette butts, probably because it's a frisbee golf course). 

- This gave us a total of 18 square inches of trash 

- Winstrom Park is about 200 acres in area

If I were to put an estimate on the amount of solid pollution (garbage) that is in the park at this point in time I would say it is about a square .09 square inches per acre