Program instructor is Tom Marcinko . We have been recognized in the local media both in the newspaper and television features. School and community interest and support have been demonstrated in the willingness to assist in our program. Through our study we have discovered a pollution problem that seems to be a pattern in the streams analyzed. The problem is sediment.
Sources seem to be varied but the pattern is consistent in all the streams studied thus far.
We would propose to study the sedimentation problem by analysis of the sediment. The effects of sediment on such important water quality factors as pH, alkalinity, suspended solids, turbidity and biological life has to our knowledge never been documented in our local streams. We are in the heart of acid mine drainage problems with several streams polluted. However, the problem of sediment and other non-point pollution sources goes relatively unnoticed. We have been fortunate in the past with grant monies to purchase water testing equipment.