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Title: Where does your water come from, and who else uses it along the way A virtual Field Trip


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Where does your watercome from, and who
elseuses it along the way?A virtual Field Trip
  • Ellen Kennedy
  • JFK Middle School
  • Northampton, MA

2
Where does your water come from, and who
else uses it along the way? Here is the top of
the Conway Watershed. It is a steep very rocky
area known as Cricket Hill.
3
Partway down the hill the water must cross the
road. It flows through a pipe large enough to
crawl through.
4
As it comes downhill the water usually flows
through the pipe. Sometimes it moves with so
much force that it rips up part of the road as
it travels.
5
Between the top of the divide and the drainage
ditch is my house. This object is the well
head. My well is 210 feet deep, and collects
water from an area of solid rock. The rock is
full of tiny cracks that fill with water.
6
Pipes fifteen feet underground bring the water
from the well into my house. This object is a
pressurized water tank. There is a filter on the
incoming pipe that routinely becomes packed with
mud and silt. Even though the pump
requires electricity to function, the
water pressure is so high that we do not lose
our water during power outages.
7
This is looking down from the well head at the
chicken coop. If you dig in the dirt here you
will strike solid rock within three to five
inches.
8
Just below where we were just standing, out of
sheer rock, comes flowing water. This is a
spring. The water flows year round, including
the winter. This allows us to use this spring to
supply water to the chickens and ducks all year
long. The water in this picture is three
inches and flowing strongly.
9
On the lower left you can see the pipe that takes
water from the spring and pipe it down to The
poultry yard. The rocks on the sides of
the spring are four feet tall.
10
Here the ducks and guinea fowl stand around the
spring, they enjoy the flowing water- and the
mud.
11
The spring runs down the hill and becomes a
brook. The poultry enjoy messing about in the
mud. The large rocks in the picture show how
much rock there is in our area, rock full of tiny
cracks that can hold water.
12
This is the other end of the pipe you saw
starting at the spring. This end fills the duck
pond to provide both a swimming area for them
but also a source of running fresh water for the
other birds.
13
Across the street the water from my spring
combines with all the water flowing off Cricket
Hill. (This includes the water Run-off from my
duck pond, and the seepage from the septic Tanks
from all the homes.) The main stream hooks to
the right In this picture and heads off towards
the main Whately reservoir.
14
Here at the Whately reservoir the water pours
over the dam that separates the upper and lower
bodies of water. The area is fenced in to
prevent fishing, boating, and during the winter,
skating and snowmobiling. After 911 the
reservoir was under guard by the State Police.
15
The water flows from the upper reservoir to the
lower. The water is home to numerous creatures,
including bass, trout, wood ducks, snapping
turtles, otter, and beaver. Other wildlife
come to the reservoir to drink, eat water plants,
or to hunt. Moose, bear, bobcat, fisher,
deer, coyotes, and porcupines all use the
reservoir.
16
This is a view of the lower reservoir. In the
spring, turtles will use this bank on the left as
a location to lay their eggs. Ducks and geese
build nests in the brush and tree line.
The little red building is where the water
crosses the road.
17
Across from the little red shack the water starts
as a tiny stream in the mud, shown left. It is
full of leaves and dirt.
The stream grows in Size and power, becoming
more clear.
Here it travels alongside Haydenville road. At
this point it appears to be a natural brook, not
an artificial route bringing water to the next
reservoir.
18
At this point the water must once again cross the
road. It travels through a metal pipe.
Sometimes this gets clogged and overflows,
creating a dangerous flood on the
road. Haydenville road is the main connector
between the towns of Whately, Conway,
Haydenville, and Northampton. It is heavily
traveled and the speed limit in this area is
40mph.
These two pipes are only twelve Inches in
diameter.
19
Once the water has cleared the drainage pipes it
races along the other side of Haydenville
road. because it is close to the road the water
carries road salt and paper trash.
The final destination The Haydenville
Reservoir. This is the source of Northampton
water.
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