So today we didn't go on a field trip. We spent the morning going around the school, but mostly the parking lot and black top. In small groups, we talked to multiple people working in environmental science careers. First we went to the CCTV (Closed circuit television) station, at that we learned about how they use cameras to go through pipes and search for problems. The second station we went to was the River Mobile. In there we learned how pollutants from rivers up stream always goes down to the ocean. We also learned a brief history of Dayton and floods its encountered, and we learned how they counteracted that by dams and levees.
We did more stations learning more stuff, and also bringing up the same topics as they all are similar in one way. Another thing I found interesting was the water testing station, there are two ways of testing water, chemically and biologically. The way you test water with chemicals is you physically take a sample and test the water in it with certain devices. How you test it biologically is you look at the wildlife around it for example, birds, plants, insects, fish. You document if they are pollution resistant or easily killed and can determine that way if need be. All of the stations I went too are connected in some way. The people who identify water maybe found an indifference in one area and need the CCTV people to come and check out the possible problem. I found today very educational.
The River, flowing and free
That held all the water, clear and cold
Where the fish, vibrant and active, swam all day
And the sand, tan and grainy, is river’s foundation
With the mud, damp and squishy, helping to build the solid ground
And the rocks, strong and rough, added the texture to river
With trees, bold and firm, adding the protection
And the hills, tall and wide, that caught the water and sent it back to the
River, flowing and free
Here is the backpack I got from the City of Dayton Water people
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