Title:

G98-NPS-12 True Blue

Sponsor:

National Environmental Educ. and Training Foundation

Project Manager:

Jim Benz
734 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 420
Washington, DC 20005
816-331-8202

Project Period:

3/15/1998 - 4/4/1998

319 Grant Funds:

$5,000

True Blue

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The minigrant will fund a one day conference on April 3, 1998, at which students will present their own research findings on water quality issues in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Four hundred area secondary students and teachers are expected to attend the event. Area businesses, community members and agency personnel are invited to set up exhibits and/or give presentations. This event will serve as a culminating activity for schools involved with the T.R.U.E. Blue Project. T.R.U.E. Blue stands for Teaching Rivers in an Urban Environment in the Blue River watershed. It will also serve as a prelude to Lakeside Nature Center's Eighth Annual Blue River clean Up being held on Saturday, April 4, 1998.

OBJECTIVES

1. Increase awareness of NPS pollutants indicated by a post conference
2. Increase participation by 30% in the Lakeside Nature Center Blue River Rescue VIII
3. Form stream teams which report data in ten Blue River Watershed school districts

PRODUCTS

Products produced as a result of the Celebration include stream team reports and student presentations. In addition, the school-based teams were supplied with equipment and resources to continue their monitoring efforts next year. Equipment provided included: surface water test kit, fiftly coliscan easy gel with petri dishes and pipettes for monitring fecal coliform, a turbidity tube, a kicknet, and a 100 foot measuring tape. The surface water test kit includes all of the materials and instruction for measuring dissolved oxygen, BOD, temperature, Ph, TDS, phosphates, nitrates, ammonia, and cholrine.

PROJECT SPONSOR

National Environmental Educ. and Training Foundation

COOPERATING AGENCIES

The Heart of America Fly-Fishermen's Association
Ozark Wilderness Waterways Canoe Club

CONTACT

National Environmental Educ. and Training Foundation
734 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 420
Washington, D.C. 20005
Jim Benz 816-331-8202