What could we do to help protect and clean the Omaru Stream

Tuakana Omaru stream 24/02/2016

For 2017 our topic for Term 1 is to help clean and protect our streams. So we had to pick the closest stream nearby to work on and it was Omaru stream.  So we took a walk to the stream to see what bit we are working on which is really close to a small mini bridge. Just looking in the water it looked so filthy with all the rubbish, grass , sticks, chopped up trees and even pipes. It was so dirty I wanted to clean it up, but then we walked back to school.

While we were walking back I was thinking in my head, what could we do to help protect the stream and make even more healthier. So we could take all the chopped up trees and the sticks out and away from the stream. Then take all the rubbish out and chuck it in the bin. After that we can just take out the pipes and start doing the dirty work.

So next we could take out all the grass and weeds so that the water can flow down the stream like it is supposed to be. Once we have finished that we can start pulling out the grass around it so there could be more space and look even better that before.

In conclusion we could put some medium rocks in there to make it look like a normal stream and also so it can be even better than before. The more we clean up the stream the more ducks and fishes and other living things could live in their. But if we do not clean it up then more fishes will die and less ducks will show up.