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Goal -- Understand how land cover/land use and demographics interact so that population dynamics can be modelled.

(I) Title: Dammed Reservoirs and Equity -- An Evaluation of Clean Drinking Water Infrastructure in North Carolina, USA

(II) Abstract:

(III) Introduction:

(A) Literature review

(B) Objective(s)

(1) Set out Null and Alternate Hypotheses: Ho = The percentage white of total population and per capita income are no different in the .5 mile “lakeside” area around North Carolina dammed drinking water supply reservoirs and the .5 – 1 mile, 1 – 3 mile and 3 – 5 miles areas outside the “lakeside” area.

Ha = The percentage white of total population and per capita income are significantly higher in the .5 mile “lakeside” area around North Carolina dammed drinking water supply reservoirs than in the .5 – 1 mile, 1 – 3 mile and 3 – 5 miles areas outside the “lakeside” area.

(2) Test the alternate hypothesis (3) Conduct the hypothesis test in such a way that it is simple and economical enough to be replicated for additional reservoirs or different landcovers by decision-makers in the field.

(IV) Environmental Equity and Reservoirs:

MAYBE UNNECESSARY W/LIT REVIEW ABOVE????

(V) Study Area:

(A) North Carolina

(VI) Methods:

(A) Data Aquisition (1) U.S. Census tablular data for North Carolina race and per capita income for the decadal censuses in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000. (2) North Carolina census boundary shapes/geographies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) List of ~75 dammed drinking water supply reservoirs (as of 2000) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(4) Shapefiles for dammed drinking water supply reservoirs (some downloaded, some digitized)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(B) Data Analysis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Wedding tabular census data to census boundary shapes/geographies to create "baselayers" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Creating buffers around dammed drinking water supply reservoirs (cite lit for buffer distances and cite NC regs also) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) Intersecting buffers and "baselayers" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(4) Area weighting individual census boundary shapes/geographies and reaggregating to derive buffer-level data

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(C) Statistical Analysis

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(VII) Results:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(VIII) Discussion:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(IX) Conclusion:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(X) Acknowledgements:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(XI) References:

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