Our main focus for this project was to examine two distinct facets of hydrology: surface and subsurface water exchange and varying nutrient level as a result of first flush and mixing processes. These subjects will be investigated and tested by artificially flooding a section of the Stroubles Creek floodplain in Blacksburg, Virginia. Our research is the continuation of a much larger experiment involving seasonal changes on flooding and its impacts on the larger ecosystem ecology. This flood, Summer Flood I, is the second in a series of seasonal floods (Early Spring Flood I, Summer Flood I, Summer Flood II, Winter Flood). These seasonal floods allow the research team to evaluate how different antecedent atmospheric conditions alter a flood and its effects on an ecosystem.