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A 6 page overview of the various impacts that housing developments can have on wetlands and associated groundwaters. Discusses nutrient contributions, pesticide contributions and ground water overdraft. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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File: D0_Wethouse.doc
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possibly like no other nation in the world. We must have the latest in fashions and the most popular in vehicles. At the end of the year we
toss our possessions in favor of "newer and better". Our Calvin Kleins go into landfills beside the millions of pairs of Reeboks and our dollars go into the pockets
of ever-richer billionaires. Our vehicles pump out toxins into our air and we think bicycles are made only with sixteen gears and only to be used for recreation in
remote places which we must haul them too via automobile. One often overlooked impact of our existence is the very houses in which we live. More often than
not congregated closely together and covering acre after acre of land, our housing developments can have tremendous impacts on the natural areas which surround them. This is particularly true
if those natural areas are wetlands. Housing developments have numerous impacts on natural wetlands: we discharge our wastes into them, we draw groundwaters from them and we intentionally alter
their hydrologies through channelization and fill activities. Although often times the public sentiment is that wetlands are useless swampy areas which
have no function other than to be modified for the purpose of utilization by man, these areas are wonderfully diverse and valuable ecosystems. We argue over the laws that
protect wetlands and the species that inhabit them and we find ourselves divided into two camps, those that are in favor of protection and those that are opposed (Cooke, 1993).
Wetlands provide not only homes for hundreds of species of plants and wildlife but also function in stormwater retention and serve as areas of groundwater recharge. These areas
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