The Cameron County Conservation District collaborated with Penn State Extension Water Resources Educator, Jim Clark, to secure a seventy-nine hundred dollar grant from the Headwaters Research, Conservation, and Development Council.
The grant funds, which must be executed in the Sinnemahoning Watershed, will pay for a water science youth program. Several high school students from the Cameron County High School will be given the opportunity to work with Penn State Water Scientists to collect water samples from the Emporium, PA, area. The samples will be analyzed for emerging contaminants and several other parameters.
The students will then have the opportunity to travel to Penn State, visit the Penn State Water Lab and the actual emerging contaminants research lab where their water samples will be analyzed.
The selected students will be asked to develop a PowerPoint presentation on the issue of emerging contaminants in water and what they have learned during the project. The PowerPoint will be shared with other high school students and the Cameron County community.
(Written By: James A. Clark, Extension Water Resources Educator, Renewable Natural Resources Extension Team, Penn State Extension, McKean County, and reprinted from Penn State Extension Watershed Winds newsletter.)