This day is designed to support Senior school students of Earth and Environmental Science, Senior Science, Agriculture and Geography. The day will be a hands on experience, involving groundwater monitoring from peizometers and using neutron probes, soil studies at the soil pit, conservation farming, water quality testing and salinity. Registrations are welcome within and outside the Central West Region. The Weenie Waterwatch Program is a pilot program developed in the Central West to promote water quality testing in primary schools. The parameters to be tested are temperature, turbidity, pH and salinity.
Sponsorship is available for schools within the Central West Region.
This program links directly to the Stage 3, Science and Technology syllabus and HSIE syllabus. For a great picture of a salt discharge area, click the following link. The report on the Streamwatch Quality Assurance testing which occurred in November 2000 is now out and has been sent to all participating groups. A record 32 groups from the Sydney and Hunter districts participated in this latest trail. The testing was a very effective way of identifying problems in a particular group, or with a particular test.