Our main goal was to investigate ways to fight off eutrophication in the Saginaw Bay Watershed. Phosphates, while a necessary resource for environmental growth and stability, can become over abundant in freshwater due to agricultural and industrial runoff. We researched ways to take a cheap resource (cellulose) and chemically alter it in order to promote adsorption of phosphates in the water. The two groups each attempted to alter the cellulose in different ways in order to create the most efficient process and product.