Patrick Leonard Watershed Reflection

This picture shows an exit point for water traveling underground under the campus into the stream. On a hot, dry day such as this one, there is little water flowing through it. However, this reminded me of the stream under the bridge near Bolton when it was raining heavily a couple weeks ago. The volume of water passing through at that time must have been hundreds of times greater than what do on a day with no rain. This pipe was smaller than the ones under the bridge near Bolton, which leads me to believe that this area collects less water than the Bolton one, possibly due to the size of the watershed in this area. Seeing that water travels above ground after being underground makes me question the cleanliness of the pipe system, as any contaminants underground would be brought into the stream. I believe that the community should have a better understanding of the pollutants that they could be allowing into streams here on campus.