Cadets Help Students Understand Pollution Runoff

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Clik here to view.A seventh-grade team from the Explorer Club 360, and a ninth-grade team from the Sea Scouts, are collecting bed stream soil and water samples along the course of the Cahoon Creek. The students gathered at the mouth of the creek where it flows into Lake Erie for a discussion with associate professor Lt. Col. Paul Moody. Moody answered questions and provided insight into the effects soil types can have on ground water pollution. Determining if the creek bed is clay, and therefore impervious, or sand will have an impact on the effects of runoff into the creek. The ninth-graders plan on using the Field Soil Calculator App developed by West Point cadets Ryan Kowal and Walter Iradikunda to classify the soil in the stream bed. Read More