The river behind the airport on Island Lake Rd.
Water Watch along the Boardman River
Photos & Story by Staci Short
Honors
Biology II is participating in Water Watch this year. We
spent the morning of April 24th testing two different
sites along the Boardman
River.
Mill Pond is a little cold in April but the Honors Bio II class braves the elements all in the name of science.
Site A was the Mill Pond and Site B was the
river behind the airport on Island Lake Rd. Students
performed Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Phosphates, Nitrates, Temperature
Change, Turbidity, Total Solid, and Fecal Coliform
Tests.
They
also sampled the river bottom for macro invertebrates to determine
the health of our piece of the Boardman Watershed. We will be
spending the next five days in class evaluating our test
results.
