Sites were chosen based on their potential geographic proximity to agricultural areas, and water samples were then collected, filtered, and observed for microplastic presence. Specific qualities that were accounted for were color, shape, and size. At the end of this study and after consideration of statistical analysis, several results were found. A total of 71 microplastics were found. There was not any significant correlation between agricultural impact and size of microplastics. The vast majority of microplastics found happened to be line shaped, with only one appearing to be film shaped. For color, a variety of black, blue, green, purple, and clear microplastics were identified. Black was the most common color of microplastic comprising 73.2% of all microplastics collected, though the only significant difference in color between sites impacted by agriculture and not impacted by agriculture was the prominence of blue colored microplastics, with agricultural sites having a statistically significant higher amount than sites not impacted by agriculture. Surprisingly though, microplastics were found in almost all sites; regardless of the correlation with agriculture, it's interesting to see such a high presence of them.

Overall, the results show there to be at least a small difference in quality of microplastics in agricultural versus nonagricultural sites based on the variation of blue microplastics, and the results of this particular study somewhat line up with the trend in many other works of scientific literature and studies in this area that agriculture, to some extent, can introduce microplastics into freshwater environments, though the extent to which it occurs in respect to this study requires further work. While there were some differences between sites in terms of data, though above all else microplastics were ubiquitous and found in almost all of the ponds and lakes sampled.