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Lets take a trip down the Housatonic River to Save Our Sound. On this website you will see a visual tour of the Sound and many extraordinary pictures. We will show you a map of the Sound and how almost every single water source in the North East runs into the Sound. The current health of the sound is good but there are so many things we can do to help keep it that way. A slideshow will be dispayed of the Sound showing all the major threats that harm the Sound. The Housatonic River and the Connecticut River are the main resources of the fresh water supply. The sound is a very special place. Lets protect it.

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I hope you have learned that Long Island Sound is a very important place and we need to keep it shining. If we could survey the sounds health and get rid of all of its problems then the sound would be a magnificent place. The Sound is a important place to animals and our daily needs. If the sound was to disappear many people would lose jobs, the animals would all die, and we would not have a watershed that supports our ecosystem. The threats that are endagering the Sound are hypoxia, pollution[such as oil being dumped into the water], and people. These problems are destroying all of the organisms in the Sound. Hypoxia is low oxygen in estuaries, lakes, and rivers. This leaves a choice to the fish, stay and die or move to another area. Pollution is effecting plant life, fish, and even us humans. If the water in the Sound becomes polluted then fish and plant life will die and we will not be able to use the large body of water for anything like transportation, and water supplies. Not only will the Sound be effected by the pollution but so will the Housatonic River. The water from the river would build up and add to the pollution in the Sound. A way we could help this is by taking daily test in the Sounds water to see if any threats are having a big impact on the water. If the water is polluted then we will start cleaning up the Sound. Another solution is to have cameras all around the Sound to see if any humans are dumping any waste into the Sound. Thank you for watching our presentation on the sound, we hope it changed the way you look at Long Island Sound!