The COAST WATCHERS

Place: Sant Carles Beaches                Date: 6th February 2004

Team: IES Ciutat Badia

                                       Shore characteristics

Kind of shore:

 

                  Access:

 

 

Cliff / Rock

 

X

Easy for vehicle

 

Breakwater / Concrete

 

X

Easy on foot

X

Crushed stone shore

 

 

Difficult or impossible

X

Sand shore

 

 

Prohibited

 

Muddy shore / Marsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The shore is surrounded by:

It arrives to the shore:

 

Farms

 

 

A river

 

Factories

 

X

A gully

X

Port

 

 

Some filtration

 

Fields

 

X

A sewer

 

Natural vegetation

 

 

A farming drain

X

Flats

 

 

A lagoon

 

 

 

 

 

                                                 Shore uses

X Fishing

 

That’s why it has been built…

 

 

X Shellfish fishing

 

X Fishing farms
  Salinas
X Anchor boats
X Nautical sports
X Bathing zone

 

  Rubbish dump

 

 

 

 

Living animals

Note which living animals found:

 

 

 

Remainders coming
from natural origin

Remainders coming
from human activities

X

Sea weeds and sea grass

X

Rubble

X

Sepia bones

 

 

Tyres

X

Crab’s sloughs

 

X

Polystyrene (packing cases)

X

Laying of eggs

 

X

Tins

X

Shells

 

X

Pieces of wood

X

Dead animals

 

X

Ropes and nets

 

 

 

X

Plastic containers

 

 

 

 

Large metal objects

 

 

 

X

Pieces of cardboard

 

 

 

X

Pieces of glass

 

 

 

X

Food wear

             

What would you take out from the shoreline if you could?

Remainders from human origin.

 

What would you add?

Surveyance, paper bins, cleaning services.

 

 

 

 

 

The shore is...

  Clean (remainders from human activities are not visible)
X

Nearly clean (few remainders are visible)

 

Pretty dirty (A lot of remainders are visible)

 

Dirty (you can avoid walking on remainders from human activities)

 

 

     

 

Survey done by:

Cristian, Irene, Natalia, Lidia, Odin, Chistopher, Hector, Ruben, Miguel

(14 years old)