Freshwater stream · Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky
Allen Branch
Shaded stream corridor (preliminary description)
Field sites
Field Site Inventory
Places where SCC students study fresh water. Allen Branch is the active site; the others are proposed or were studied in earlier student projects. A site moves from proposed to active only after access, permission and safety are documented.
Farm pond · South-central Kentucky
Agricultural pond (to be selected)
Open, sunlit standing water — a contrast to a shaded stream
Requires landowner permission before any visit.
Reservoir embayment · Pulaski County, Kentucky
Lake Cumberland — Pitman Creek embayment (proposed)
Where NHD routes the mapped Allen Branch–Sinking Creek–Pitman Creek path into Lake Cumberland
Public access and boating rules to be documented.
Lake · Rockcastle County, Kentucky
Lake Linville (prior student project)
Studied in an earlier SCC student water-quality poster
Proposing a new site
A new site needs: a name and location from an authoritative source (for example, the USGS National Hydrography Dataset), landowner or agency permission, a documented safe access route, a reason it helps answer a research question, and faculty approval. The research questions suggest the kinds of sites that would be most useful — especially an open agricultural pond to contrast with shaded Allen Branch.