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You will begin your journey at the Frankstown Branch and will end at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

Location: Date and Time


 * Hollidaysburg: May 3, 8:00AM** (NW MR EH)

Canoe Creek is rich in Limestone. The limestone was quarried and used for many purposes like providing raw material for the iron and steel industries of PA. There are several abandoned quarries on the park lands. 2 Limekilns also use to operate within the boundaries of the park during the 1900s. Remanants of a kiln once owned by the Blair Limeston Company stand today as a reminder of the industrial past. Blair Limestone Company Kilns is a stop on the Path of Progress tour.

Canoe Creek also has a bunch of animals and fish like.... Bats, Ducks, Bass, Trout, Turkey, Deer, and Chipmunks. People also come to C anoe Creek. To do things such as Fishing, Canoeing, Rowing, Water Skiing, Horseback Riding, Mountain Biking, Hiking, and in the winter Snowmobiles. The map of Canoe Creek mostly mountains with small land in the middle and a lake. Canoe Creek Map

Canoe Creek: has some pollution such as; people, waste, limestone mine dranage.

So I always start my day off by taking a dip in the Canoe Creek lake but I noticed that the water tasted like waste, and Limestone, so i didnt drink alot. I needed to find another place to relax and chill. So i can talk to my friends. So I made it final that i'm moving on down to Huntingdon. I heard it's nice there.


 * Huntingdon: May 4, 5:15 PM** Brandon Porta, Warren Peters, Dom Burger

I started my trip from Canoe Creek to Huntingdon. On my way down there i stopped in Willamsburg to take a short break. Then from there I traveled up to Alexandria and walked around at the Alexandria Auto Mart. From there I made my way up to Huntingdon and took a short break and went to the skatepark right next to the river. Then a liitle bit down river was Raystown Lake, where i was making my way to. At Raystown, The Frankstown Juniata Branch and the Raystown Juniata Branch come together to make the Juniata River.

The river most of the way is covered from a lot of sun from trees. This is making this a somewhat cold river. There are a lot of farms along the river. Farmers may be poluting the river with things on there farm. There are a lot of small towns on the way. Small towns seem to put more waste into rivers that run through there community.

Polution: AMD from Leapold Park.


 * Lewistown: May 5, 12:00 P** Brandon Singer and Ashley Snyder

So as i was swimming down the river I decided to swim over to Raystown Lake and look at all of the boats. I had a great time until i was almost ate by a huge carp at the marina. However, the worst part of my trip was when i had an encounter with Raystown Ray. Raystown Ray was about 15Ft. long and mean as the sun is bright. So after those two encounters i decided to head over to the Raystown water park.

As i start back on my trip to Lewistown i start to hear a bunch of clacking and clanking. Then all i can see on the bank is a long train going by. this train must have been about 200 cars long. I heard that train about 5 times in the day that i was on that part of the river.

After awhile I start to see some small communities and farms along the river. So there has to be pollution in the river from those. eespecially because one of the small streams that come into the river was used by the Moo Cows to drink and poop and pee in. EWWW!

Atleast this section of the river had some nice big poofy trees over it. That helped me stay out of the sun alot more. the water was a few feetdeep in some places but only a few inches to a foot deep in most of it.

Columbia: May 10, 3:45 PM(between York and Lancaster) Columbia- Very wide river that runs right in between the city. The water was very warm and there is alot of dams. There are also alot of farms so not even that the water was warm it also had alot of fertilizers and pollutants in it. Also there were alot of little islands in the water. The islands help to take some of the pollutants out of the water but the city is way to big for it to take all of them out. There are some little creeks that run into it and if you choose to go up those creeks they are surrounded by trees so the water is clean and cool because its in the shade. When you get into Northumberland there is a big split in the river. It splits into a y shape. The one on the right is a little bigger but has more pollution becuase even though there are still some little islands they have some little industrys on them. The one on the left is smaller but is still surrounded by the city and farm land. On one of the islands called Packers island they even have and airport.

DG.. the strech of water between lewistown and harrisburg runs through many farm lands. this means their is a potental for alot of fertilizer to be in the water. their is an airfeild close to the stream. this leaves the risk of spills into the river. the river is not beside any towns. this means that their is not much of a risk of human polutants. even tho their a almost no towns the farm run off leaves a high risk of polutants


 * Havre De Grace: May 12, 7:45 PM**


 * Baltimore: May 16, 7:25 AM**


 * Anapolis: May 18, 12:00 PM**


 * Tangier Island: May 21, 1:35 PM**


 * Virginia Beach: May 23, 11:30 AM**(JS AND AW)

Sources of pollution: a source of pollution is mercury, is coming from the cities industries upstream and the urban environments along the chesapeake bay another source of pollution in chesapeake bay is the sewage, the sewage in the bay is affecting the marine life and plants it's caused by the cities and urban areas upstream. The Solution to the the Mercury pollution is to reduce the source.

Types of animals and plants along the chesapeake bay: some of the animals susie will see along the chesapeake bay are many crabs and oysters,many aquatic animals such as yellow perch,stripped bass,herring, and shad. Another thing susie might see is dolphins, and deer, turtles ,snakes, and lizards some plants susie might run into are the underwater bay grass from plant communities that provide food and habitat,

Some human activities at the chesapeake bay are camping, sailing, hiking, cayaking, swimming, and fishing.susie may see many boats and people

the water in the chesapeake bay moves down and into the atlantic ocean the water moves as fast as the current wants it to and susie will travel to atlantic ocean from the chesapeake bay.

The importance of this watershed being healthy is that it travels for miles which kills millions to billions of animals and plants, this could also cause the drinking water along the basin to be polluted.

.[|chesapeake foundation]