SWCD

Project Description

Requested

Match

Recom-mendation

Holmes

Two canoe tours of Killbuck Creek are planned, one for high school students which will include a wetlands survey, and one for community leaders and local news media.

$1,000

$3,150

$ 500

Lorain

Teachers from four high schools will receive biological and chemical sampling equipment to enable their classes to gather and share data and conduct watershed comparisons.

998

1,720

998

Noble

SWCD will sponsor an Ag-School Day for all third grade students and teachers.

1,000

3,940

250

Ross

Purchase of an EnviroScape watershed model to be used for teacher workshops, classroom presentations, field days, etc. in Paint Creek watershed.

934

607

934

Sandusky

Purchase of an EnviroScape Landfill model and wetlands add-on component for use in Sandusky River Coalition activities and other programs with students and adults.

1,000

1,046

1,000

Trumbull

A handheld colorimeter will be purchased and loaned to high schools to enhance chemical monitoring initiatives. Students will communicate with each other via videoconferencing and will compare and contrast sites in the Mahoning River watershed.

1,000

1,400

1,000

Union

Purchase of an EnviroScape Hazardous Waste add-on, a Groundwater component and a Septic Education Kit will aid in their urban nonpoint source education program. They also propose a storm drain stenciling initiative.

939

1,975

939

Wayne

Twenty middle school Water Ambassadors and their teachers (from 10 schools) will participate in a 2-day water quality workshop. Students will each teach an activity to their peers, record and broadcast a PSA on a local radio station.

1,000

3,925

1,000

Multiple County Projects

Morrow/ Coshocton

A 2-day seminar for 30 educators will focus on the Kokosing River watershed. In addition to experience with classroom activities and a canoe trip, participants will receive resource materials and monitoring equipment.

2,490

2,910

2,490

Mercer/Auglaize

A water quality day camp will be developed and conducted for third through sixth grade students in the Grand Lake St. Marys watershed.

3,030

4,120

2,670

Ottawa

Secondary school students and teachers in the Portage River watershed will receive training, resource materials and monitoring equipment. Each school will perform a service project related to the river and meet in a student congress in May.

4,999

10,342

4,999

TOTALS

$18,390

35,135

$16,780