KIDS CREEK TESTING

Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
Fourth-grader Madelyn Henkel, 10, sketches the scene along Kids Creek in downtown Traverse City as she and her Old Mission Peninsula School classmates take water samples on Thursday afternoon, testing for pH, conductivity and temperature. The students have partnered with The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay in a long-term study on the creek and the effects of road salt runoff. Tests will be taken from several sites along the creek, which flows into the Boardman River near its mouth in West Grand Traverse Bay, on a monthly and possibly bi-monthly during certain times. Funding for the project comes from the Dan Wolz Grant, awarded to fourth grade teacher Carolyn Mammen from the Michigan Science Teacher Association and is sponsored by the Michigan Water Environment Association in Lansing.

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